本小说是美国当代作家辛西娅·奥兹克于1990年获欧·亨利小说奖的名篇佳作。小说描述了一位已年过半百、性情怪僻的知识型女人,在物色意中人时把一位偶尔遇到的年轻潇洒的画家当成了自己的知音,并随即以历史上的两位著名文学家之间的爱情佳话作为参照,来培养这位年轻人对自己的感情。然而在举行婚礼的当天晚上,这位画家就心事重重地匆匆离开了。 This novel is the famous American writer Cynthia Ozick won the European Henry Prize in 1990. The novel describes a half-hundred-year-old, peculiar, intellectual-typed woman who, as an admirer of young people, takes as his companion an occasional young and painterly painter and then takes two historians of famous writers Love story as a reference, to cultivate the young people on their own feelings. However, on the evening of the wedding, the painter left in a hurry.