爱情游戏
2004-6
Plume Books
John Dearie
224
Jack Lafferty is handsome,thirty-five years old,a successful Wall Street banker-and miserable.Years of navigating the carnival fun house of the Manhattan dating scene have climaxed in wedding plans-plans that are destroyed when his fiancee s affections wander.Embittered;Jack has sworn off women No way will he be hurt again,not even by Sarah Mitchell,a bright and beautiful corporate attorney.But just when Jack s romantic torpor finally lifts,disaster atrikes,pushing Sarah away and seemingly out of reach.Getting her back will require a move so bold,so daring,that the cautious Jack isn t sure hes up to the task.Or is he?
John Dearie,is managing director of a not-for-profit organization that helps to build banking and financial systems in developing countries. This is his first novel.Finally retired from single life,he lives with his wife in New York City.