Milk in my Coffee [ペーパーバック]

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テネシーの田舎者から念願のニューヨーカーになり、人生を謳歌中の黒人ジョーダン。マルコムXを愛する彼が不意に出会った、美しいクリーム色の肌の白人女性。相容れない二人が繰り広げる、カフェオレ色の恋愛模様。

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テネシーの片田舎からNYにやって来て2年、マンハッタンのど真ん中で、必死にもがいて生きてきた黒い肌のジョーダン。幼い頃の葛藤を心に病んだまま、精一杯独り立ちし、アーティストとして成功を収めつつある白い肌のキンバリー。NY。死人だって必死に歩きつづける街。敵も味方もすべて自分次第の街。そんな不安定な日常のなかで、ふたりは出会い、恋に落ちた。お互いの違いを知りながら、どうしようもない情動に突き動かされて…。肌の色なんて関係ない、なんてとんでもない。愛しあえばそれだけ、理解したいと願うだけ、すれ違う想いに苦しんでゆく。元恋人との妊娠騒動、そして愛する兄弟の失踪事件も手伝って、つぎつぎと波瀾を迎えるふたりの恋の行く末は―。 --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。

マンハッタンのど真ん中で、必死にもがいて生きてきた黒い肌のジョーダン。幼い頃の葛藤を秘めたまま独り立ちし、成功を収めつつある白い肌のキンバリー。不安定な日常の中で出会った二人の、カフェオレ色の恋愛模様。 --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。

Dickey's third novel takes on the personal politics associated with interracial romance, as a chance encounter in a Manhattan taxi brings together Jordan Greene, a young black urban professional, and Kimberly Chavers, a white painter. Dickey gets far beyond the stereotypes, infusing all his characters with complex emotional lives, and while Jordan dominates the story, the multiple first-person narration shows just how deep Dickey's willing to get inside "all" his characters' heads. Milk in My Coffee is a story about two people coming to terms with the attitudes that shape their identities, where hearts and minds learn painful lessons about getting beyond what the eye can see. --Ron Hogan

When a black man meets a white woman and they fall in love, sometimes there are more pressing matters that concern them than the predictable fuss over an interracial relationship. The latest novel from the popular Dickey (Friends and Lovers) is as much about relationships as it is about race. Both Jordan Greene, a 30ish engineer, and Kimberly Chavers, a 28-year-old artist, have thorny connections with friends, former lovers and relatives that they must unravel before they can even begin to think about a life together. For Jordan, there is his on-again, off-again relationship with fiery J'nette, who says she is carrying his baby. There is his friendship with his confidant Solomon, who is engaged to J'nette's best friend but may be less trustworthy than he seems. Then there is Jordan's family. When he flies from New York to his native small town of Brownsville, Tenn., to attend the funeral of his ex-stepfather, Jordan is caught in the thick of family woes. His half-brother, Reggie, has finally checked into a drug rehabilitation program but only after casting their older brother, Darrell, into bankruptcy. In the rural South, where racial tensions are more frightening and immediate than Jordan remembers, he must not only suffer his older brother's harangues against dating white women but also do so while loaning him money. Kimberly, meanwhile, is trying to rid herself of an obnoxious, white ex-boyfriend and come to grips with a secret past that she fears will make Jordan doubt her love for him. By the time she shows Jordan her skeletons, makes up with a troubled family of her own and faces down violence on the streets of New York, Dickey has demonstrated once again his easy mastery of dialogue and voice (both romantic leads share narrator's honors with an omniscient third-person) and his cheerful, wittily acerbic eye for the troubles that plague lovers in the 1990s. (Sept.) FYI: Signet will issue Friends and Lovers in paperback in September.
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Tennessee native Jordan Greene is living the good life as a single, successful young professional in New York City. He has a great job and a best friend who's closer than a brother, but his rollercoaster relationship with J'nette is on a first-class trip to nowhere. Then he meets Kimberly, a fiery, talented artist with gorgeous long red hair and Irish cream skin. What starts as a shared cab ride turns into a long night of talking and laughing from the heart-- and that's a problem for a man with a picture of Malcolm X on his office wall. As romance blooms, Jordan reluctantly crosses the color barrier in search of true love, and finds himself confronting long-hidden issues in himself while dealing with friends and family who are none-too-keen on his new girlfriend. Once again, Eric Jerome Dickey explores a serious subject with his signature light touch, and taps a range of emotions from fragile heartbreak to powerful laughter in this deeply affecting tale of love...with a twist.

ディッキー,エリック・ジェローム
テネシー州メンフィス出身。コンピューター・プログラマー、中学校教師、俳優、コメディアンなど様々な職種を経て執筆を始める。処女作『Sister Sister』から注目を浴び、生来のウィットと独特の経歴を生かした作風で、一躍ベストセラー作家に。ロサンゼルス在住

山田 蘭
英米文学翻訳家(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。