Kathleen Gilles Seidel 凱瑟琳‧季勒斯‧雪德

沒想到這本我還沒灑過葉子
趕快來補灑一下!!
作者對肥皂劇圈的描寫很仔細也很有趣
男女主角討喜,配角群也相當搶眼

書的開頭就很吸引人,就我的感覺,作者的文筆很精煉,譯者的文筆很風趣
貼上一段原文讓大家和譯文比較一下
Alec slept for a month and then went home to Canada to visit his own family. He returned to New York,renewed, refreshed, ready to work again, and discovered that he might just as well have stayed home.His name was as muddy as his father’s potato fields. No one would hire him. He was finished at the age of thirty-two.

He was being blamed for everything that had been wrong with Aspen. He was difficult—the reports went—temperamental, obstinate, a perfectionist.

He couldn’t believe it. He had always been one of the good guys, punctual, professional, dedicated. How could anyone call him difficult? He was Canadian. The world’s longest unprotected border and all that.Canadians didn’t know how to be difficult.

“But these people know me,” he protested to his agent. “They know I’m not like that.”
“They also know that you were part of a bomb.”
There was no quarreling with that. In fact, he hadn’t just been “part of” a bomb. He had starred in it. A Bomb Starring Alec Cameron. Not a perfect career move.

亞歷大睡了整整一個月，然後回加拿大探望家人。他重新振作起來，神清氣爽地回到紐約，卻發現不如待在老家算了。他的名聲爛得像馬鈴薯田地中的污泥。沒有人肯雇用他。他才三十二歲，演藝事業卻已經完蛋了。
「小鎮英雄」將所有的失敗都怪在他頭上。媒體報導說他太難搞，不但喜怒無常、固執己見，而且吹毛求疵。
他完全不敢相信。他一直都是劇組裡的好人，準時、專業、用心。怎會有人說他難搞？他是加拿大人呢！這個國家擁有全世界最長的無守衛邊界，加拿大人不懂難搞是怎麼回事。
「這些人又不是不認識我，」他對經紀人抗議。「他們知道我不是那種人。」
「他們也知道你是那檔爛戲的一分子。」
他無話可說。事實上，他不只是那部爛戲的「一分子」。他是該戲的招牌演員。康亞歷主演之超級大爛戲。這對他的事業沒有半點好處。

但是男配角後來和人閃電結婚太過突然,劇情描寫有些粗糙無法說服我
還有女主角要說服灰心離去的男主角接受她的橋段我看不太懂
所以扣一葉