约翰·欧文
John Irving
1942年出生于美国新罕布什尔州的埃克塞特。欧美当代文坛的世界级畅销作家,其作品被译为超过35种语言,擅长叙事,擅写亲情、成长、性别等主题。
1980年,欧文以《盖普眼中的世界》获美国国家图书奖;2000年,以《苹果酒屋的规则》获第72届奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。代表作有《盖普眼中的世界》《新罕布什尔旅馆》《苹果酒屋的规则》《为欧文·米尼祈祷》《寡居的一年》等。
发表于2024-06-29
Until I Find You 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
这本小说的语言也很简单,典型的美国当代小说的语言风格。叙述平易,没有什么艰深的词汇和表达。小说的故事梗概:Jack Burns是我们的主人公,他的记忆始于4岁时跟随母亲在波罗的海诸国穿行,母亲说是为了追寻他的父亲。说他的父亲是个花花公子。Jack Burns的父亲William Burns...
评分美国黑色幽默文学的代表人物之一冯内古特曾在给约翰·欧文的信中这样写道:“你得到的一切荣耀,都是你应得的。有幸认识你,我很骄傲。” 冯内古特对于欧文的赞赏从来毫不吝啬,并且称他为“美国最重要的幽默作家”,而欧文自身所获得的的成就,也绝对对得起这份荣耀和赞美,他...
评分美国黑色幽默文学的代表人物之一冯内古特曾在给约翰·欧文的信中这样写道:“你得到的一切荣耀,都是你应得的。有幸认识你,我很骄傲。” 冯内古特对于欧文的赞赏从来毫不吝啬,并且称他为“美国最重要的幽默作家”,而欧文自身所获得的的成就,也绝对对得起这份荣耀和赞美,他...
评分这本小说的语言也很简单,典型的美国当代小说的语言风格。叙述平易,没有什么艰深的词汇和表达。小说的故事梗概:Jack Burns是我们的主人公,他的记忆始于4岁时跟随母亲在波罗的海诸国穿行,母亲说是为了追寻他的父亲。说他的父亲是个花花公子。Jack Burns的父亲William Burns...
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Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.
When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church organist and profligate womanizer, is always a step ahead – has always just departed in a wave of scandal, with a new tattoo somewhere on his body from a local master or “scratcher.”
Alice and Jack abandon their quest, and Jack is educated at schools in Canada and New England – including, tellingly, a girls’ school in Toronto. His real education consists of his relationships with older women – from Emma Oastler, who initiates him into erotic life, to the girls of St. Hilda’s, with whom he first appears on stage, to the abusive Mrs. Machado, whom he first meets when sent to learn wrestling at a local gym.
Too much happens in this expansive, eventful novel to possibly summarize it all. Emma and Jack move to Los Angeles, where Emma becomes a successful novelist and Jack a promising actor. A host of eccentric minor characters memorably come and go, including Jack’s hilariously confused teacher the Wurtz; Michelle Maher, the girlfriend he will never forget; and a precocious child Jack finds in the back of an Audi in a restaurant parking lot. We learn about tattoo addiction and movie cross-dressing, “sleeping in the needles” and the cure for cauliflower ears. And John Irving renders his protagonist’s unusual rise through Hollywood with the same vivid detail and range of emotions he gives to the organ music Jack hears as a child in European churches. This is an absorbing and moving book about obsession and loss, truth and storytelling, the signs we carry on us and inside us, the traces we can’t get rid of.
Jack has always lived in the shadow of his absent father. But as he grows older – and when his mother dies – he starts to doubt the portrait of his father’s character she painted for him when he was a child. This is the cue for a second journey around Europe in search of his father, from Edinburgh to Switzerland, towards a conclusion of great emotional force.
A melancholy tale of deception, Until I Find You is also a swaggering comic novel, a giant tapestry of life’s hopes. It is a masterpiece to compare with John Irving’s great novels, and restates the author’s claim to be considered the most glorious, comic, moving novelist at work today.
Until I Find You 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书