白い犬とワルツを (新潮文庫) [文庫]

Sam Peek's children are worried. Since that "saddest day" when Cora, his beloved wife of fifty-seven good years, died, no one knows how he will survive. How can this elderly man live alone on his farm? How can he keep driving his dilapidated truck down to the fields to care for his few rows of pecan trees? And when Sam begins telling his children about a dog as white as the pure driven snow -- that seems invisible to everyone but him -- his children think that grief and old age have finally taken their toll.

But whether the dog is real or not, Sam Peek -- "one of the smartest men in the South when it comes to trees" -- outsmarts them all. Sam and the White Dog will dance from the pages of this bittersweet novel and into your heart, as they share the mystery of life, and begin together a warm and moving final rite of passage.

Winner of the Southeastern Library Association's Outstanding Author Award. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

長年連れ添った妻に先立たれ、自らも病に侵された老人サムは、暖かい子供たちの思いやりに感謝しながらも一人で余生を生き抜こうとする。妻の死後、どこからともなく現れた白い犬と寄り添うようにして。犬は、サム以外の人間の前にはなかなか姿を見せず、声も立てない―真実の愛の姿を美しく爽やかに描いて、痛いほどの感動を与える大人の童話。

57年間連れ添った妻を失っても生き抜こうとするサム。そんな彼を心配する子供たち。サムにしか見えなかった白い犬はやがて…。95年初版のベストセラーの新装版。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG is Terry Kay's stunning fourth novel, a moving story about an old man's final rite of passage, about family ties and the universal experience of grieving for a lost love. At the heart of the book is a mysterious white dog that appears after Sam Peek's beloved wife has died, and that remains with him until just before his own death. Stray dog or ghost dog? To Sam Peek, the dog is a guardian angel who brings to him the healing power of comfort.

TO DANCE WITH THE WHITE DOG was made into a CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn. When it aired on 3 December 1993 it was the highest rated television movie of the season. In 1991, Terry Kay was named Outstanding Author of the Year by the Southeastern Library Association for WHITE DOG, and the book was nominated for the American Booksellers Book of the Year in 1992.
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Terry Kay's novels include Taking Lottie Home, The Runaway, Shadow Song, and the now-classic To Dance with the White Dog, twice nominated for the American Booksellers Book of the Year Award, and winner of the Southeastern Library Association Book of the Year Award. Terry Kay has been married for 44 years and has four children and seven grandchildren. He lives in Athens, Georgia. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

ケイ,テリー
1938年、米国ジョージア州生れ。ウエスト・ジョージア大学からラグランジュ大学卒。地元の雑誌に映画や演劇の批評などを寄稿したあと、処女作『明りがついた年』を発表。イーモリ大学で創作の指導も行う。現在アトランタに愛妻と住む

兼武 進
1937年生れ。東京大学英文科卒。現在は跡見学園女子大学短大部教授(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです) --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。