In Bag of Bones, for instance, main character Mike Noonan is a fortyish writer who, as the book opens, has just lost his wife to a brain aneurysm.

比如《尸骨袋》中的主要人物麦克·诺南是个四十多岁的作家，小说开始的时候，他的妻刚刚因为脑动脉瘤病逝。

He was a sturdy, fortyish man in a white T-shirt who had turned off his lawn mower to shake my hand while a towheaded little boy zipped around behind him on a red tricycle.

他是一个身材健壮的四十多岁男人，穿着一件白色的T恤，关掉了他的割我握手，而一个拖着头的小男孩骑着一辆红色的三轮车在他身后飞驰。