Amateurs in Eden is written by Joanna Hodgkin, the daughter ofLawrence Durrell s first wife Nancy. It tells Nancy s story, complete with a full description ofher unsatisfactory parents and unhappy childhood, and an account of her life after sheleft Lawrence. The heart of the book, and the subject of greatest interest, is a portrait oftheir marriage and their four seemingly idyllic years on Corfu. They met in bohemian Londonwhen she was an art student and he was working for an estate agent and writingpoetry.From the start they were a striking but odd couple. She was tall, willowy, beautiful.He was three inches shorter and stocky; his lack of height a secret sorrow. Yet he had noshortage of charm. He could turn a mundane event into a colourful drama, and she fellunder his spell. After two years together, both 22, they married and left EnglandPuddingIsland, according to Durrell. His widowed mother and her three younger children soon followed them to Greece.
乔安娜霍奇金是劳伦斯的首任妻子南希改嫁后生的女儿,撰写了《Amateurs in Eden》一书,将南希一生的故事娓娓道来,从她不称职的父母、不快乐的童年一直讲到离开劳伦斯之后的日子。本书的核心部分,便是南希和劳伦斯在科孚岛上四年田园牧歌式的伉俪情缘。两人当年初见时,波西米亚主义正在伦敦盛行。她是个艺术学生,而他是个写诗的房产经济人。这奇怪的一对儿从一开始就很引人注目。姑娘很修长,苗条而美丽,小伙子却挺敦实,足足比她矮了三英寸海拔不够是个心病。不过身高可不是问题:他能把庸常俗务变成精彩的戏剧,让她为他的魔力倾心。两年后,这对22岁的年轻人结了婚,离开了英格兰。他的寡母很快带着三个弟妹跟着他俩搬到了希腊。
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