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內容簡介 「這本小說終將成為經典。」──出版家周刊1980年代早期，位於郊區的某間表演藝術學校是當時對藝術抱有熱情的學生們理想中的歸屬，大衛和莎拉正是那年幸運入學的新生，兩人相識後隨即陷入熱戀，周遭的人都注意到了，甚至是連兩人充滿魅力的演員課程指導老師金斯利都注意到了。當原本被兩人拋之腦後的家庭經濟背景、學業壓力開始介入，引起了一連串意料之外的事件，不僅將大衛和莎拉兩人拉進一個分不清真偽的漩渦中，連讀者們也一起跟著故事一路旋轉至最後一個情節的翻轉。作者Susan Choi已出道作The Foreign Student獲得了Asian-American Literary Award小說獎，另二本小說American Woman曾入圍普立茲小說獎，本書挑戰了小說的極限，出版後獲得了許多媒體的讚賞。WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare and splendid” (The Boston Globe) • “Remarkable” (USA Today) • “Delicious” (The New York Times) • “Book groups, meet your next selection " (NPR)In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed—or untoyed with—by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls—until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true—though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place—revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.As captivating and tender as it is surprising, Susan Choi's Trust Exercise will incite heated conversations about fiction and truth, and about friendships and loyalties, and will leave readers with wiser understandings of the true capacities of adolescents and of the powers and responsibilities of adults."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Susan ChoiSusan Choi is the author of the novels My Education, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and The Foreign Student. Her work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Faulkner Award and winner of the PEN W.G. Sebald Award and the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. With David Remnick, she co-edited Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.

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