Montpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach.
Hoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging―at high school, in his part-time job at the butcher shop, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family―Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future?
Unfolding over a bright, rain-soaked Dublin spring, Montpelier Parade is a rich, devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone.
卡尔·盖瑞（Karl Geary），编剧、演员，出生于爱尔兰都柏林，16岁移居纽约。他曾参与过《康尼岛的宝贝》(Coney Island Baby)的剧本创作，出演过米歇尔·阿米瑞亚德导演的《哈姆雷特》（Hamlet）以及肯·洛奇导演的《吉米的舞厅》（Jimmy's Hall）。此外，他还改编了多萝西·帕克的作品《完美如你》（You Were Perfectly Fine），执导并将其搬上银幕。
