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I Want You To Be Happy

內容簡介

內容簡介 英國《觀察家報》2026年度最佳首作小說家查克和喬伊在酒吧相遇。他三十出頭；她小他十二歲。他早已放棄成為小說家的抱負，如今在一家大型廣告代理公司擔任文案——他更正，是「首席文案」。喬伊靠著咖啡師的微薄薪水勉強度日，私底下卻夢想成為一名詩人。他們回到查克的豪華公寓——這比喬伊那狹窄的租處簡直好太多了。不久，喬伊開始幻想兩人之間的未來，而查克則試圖放下過去犯的錯往前走。很神奇，遇見一個新的人竟能讓你感覺如此煥然一新。幽默、令人痛苦又真實，《I Want You to Be Happy》觀察入微，講述兩個在現代社會中尋找意義與連結的人——或許偶爾失足，但仍繼續努力嘗試。AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST OF 2026Chuck and Joey meet in a bar. He's in his mid-thirties; she's twelve years younger. He's long abandoned his ambition of becoming a novelist and now works as a copywriter at a big ad agency. 'Lead copywriter,' he corrects himself. Joey lives paycheck to paycheck on her barista wages and privately dreams of making it as a poet. They go back to Chuck's luxury flat-a world away from Joey's cramped house-share, the crumbs in her bed. Soon, Joey's imagining a future between them, and Chuck's moving on from a mistake in his recent past. Amazing, how meeting a new person can make you feel so new.Funny, excruciating, and true, I Want You to Be Happy is a sharp-eyed tale of two people searching for meaning and connection in modern times, missing the mark maybe, but still trying.

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各界推薦 An agonisingly bittersweet comedy. -- Observer"I Want You to Be Happy is an irresistible novel that asks complex questions about contemporary life and refuses easy answers. I couldn't stop reading." -- Sally Rooney

作者介紹

作者介紹 Jem CalderJem Calder was born in Cambridge, and lives and works in London. His fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly and Granta, and his debut short story collection, Reward System, was published by Faber in 2022.

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最佳賣點

最佳賣點 : 「很神奇，遇見一個新的人竟能讓你感覺如此煥然一新。」本書是對現代約會關係犀利但不憤世嫉俗的入微觀察！《正常人》作者莎莉魯尼推薦：「既幽默又令人揪心，真實得令人心有戚戚焉……它提出了關於當代生活的複雜問題，且拒絕給予簡單的答案。」