| 词条 | The Glass Lake |
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| name = The Glass Lake | title_orig = | translator = | image = MaeveBinchy TheGlassLake.jpg | image_size = 200px | author = Maeve Binchy | cover_artist = | country = {{flagicon|Ireland}} Ireland | language = English | series = | genre = Romance novel | publisher = Orion Publishing | release_date = 2 September 1994 | media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback) | pages = 608 pp (first edition, hardback) | isbn = 1-85797-950-8 | isbn_note = (first edition, hardback) | preceded_by = The Copper Beech | followed_by = Evening Class }} The Glass Lake is a 1994 novel by the Irish author Maeve Binchy. The action takes place in a rural Irish village in the 1950s, as well as in London. It is notable as the last of Binchy's novels to be set in the 1950s. Binchy explores the roles of women in Irish society and inconstant lovers, and uses an operatic plot to hold the reader's attention. PlotHelen McMahon disappears when her daughter Kit is 12 years old, and it is suspected that she drowned in the local lake. Kit finds a letter from her mother and burns it before reading it, fearing that a suicide note will prevent her from meriting a church burial.[1] In fact, Helen has left her kindly but unexciting husband Martin and two children to run off to London to be with her dashing lover.[2] Kit struggles to grow up without her mother and with the stigma of her mother's death. While Kit has many friends and mentors to help her grow, she forges a close relationship via a pen pal relationship with a woman named Lena Gray, who claims to have been a close friend of Helen.[2] The story then traces the fallout of Kit finding out that her mother is not dead and is in fact Lena Gray. ThemesLike Tara Road, in which Binchy introduces an American character to an Irish town, The Glass Lake offers readers a look at the lives of women in another country – namely, England, to which Lena escapes with her lover. This plot device plays up the "Irishness" of the other protagonists and reinforces the self-identity of Binchy's Irish women readers.[3] ReceptionAs of 1998, The Glass Lake was Ireland's best-selling book of all time.[4] References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-31354-4|title=The Glass Lake|work=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=December 31, 2018}} {{Maeve Binchy}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Glass Lake, The}}2. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/maeve-binchy/the-glass-lake/|title=The Glass Lake|date=December 1, 1994|accessdate=December 31, 2018|work=Kirkus Reviews}} 3. ^{{citation|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=quocyNYLbLcC&pg=PA21|chapter=Maeve Binchy (1940– )|first=Rebecca|last=Steinberger|title=Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide|editor-first= Alexander G.|editor-last=Gonzalez|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0313328838|page=21}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/1998/sep/01/fiction.maevebinchy|title=The Storyseller|first=Dina|last=Rabinovich|date=September 1, 1998|accessdate=December 30, 2018|work=The Guardian}} 5 : 1994 novels|1950s in fiction|Novels by Maeve Binchy|Novels set in Ireland|Novels set in London |
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