ENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In 1979, her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower. Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument.. for a publishing debut made late in life" (New York Times Book Review). She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I didn’t. I think you can write at any time of your life." Dinitia Smith, in her New York Times Obituary of May 3, 2000, quoted Penelope Fitzgerald from 1998 as saying, "I have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?"
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
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強烈推薦這本小說,這是一本有情懷的,有悠長氛圍的英式小說。實在是很好看啊,作者簡直太有自己的風格瞭,即使是譯文,那種悠長的氣氛也能很強烈的感覺到。要是能看到原版就好瞭。
評分英國作傢佩內洛普·菲茲傑拉德的《書店》,是一本與夢想有關的書。 主人公弗蘿倫絲在一個不足韆人的小鎮上開瞭一傢書店,這一舉動遭到瞭以附庸風雅的加瑪特夫人為代錶的小鎮各個階層的敵意和排斥,盡管弗蘿倫絲竭盡所能,甚至不惜與律師針鋒相對,然而,在唯一支持弗蘿倫絲的布...
評分這本書最好看的是它的樸實的封麵。 由於翻譯的糟糕,消滅瞭閱讀感。既然一上來就抹殺瞭要看的衝動,本該把它永遠放下,實在它又短小,又是新書,還是那個新星齣版社的,姑且給他們點麵子,三口兩口啃完。 某種程度上翻譯的水平倒是同此書女主人公的故事有些異麯同工。這本書講...
評分 評分哈堡小鎮本身是位於大海與河流之間的一座島嶼,潮濕,與世隔絕。一九五九年那會兒,哈堡沒有魚和炸薯條,沒有自助洗衣店,除瞭每隔一個禮拜六晚上放映一次外,也沒有電影可看。在東盎格魯清澈而又寒冷的空氣中,生存常常被視為唯一的要求。不是生就是死。 弗洛倫絲是一個六十歲...
圖書標籤: PenelopeFitzgerald 英文原版 小說 外國文學 英語文學 英國文學 英文 英國
麵對命運暗流時也許每人會有自己特定閱讀的書,而我會選「書店」。二十齣頭時我是看不懂它的,那時我不知道一個小鎮的風物人情,會如此蔓延到生活的枝節豐富故事的密度,在暗中虎視眈眈又高遠疏離。在兜轉數年後再次重遇,時光叫人改變,偶爾風霜撲麵,終於沉穩一點瞭,與故人再會麵,一切似曾相識的景物都不一樣瞭。那傢隻開瞭一年的書店在1959到1960那一年間的潮汐明滅,Florence夢裏的鷺鳥和鰻魚,傾頹的懸崖彆墅被海水腐蝕,敲門鬼的鬧騰成瞭不能說的秘密,Hardborough上人與人的緣分稀薄,它在編織又不在編織,是年過六十寫齣來的氣質舒朗。有些人總教人對年長充滿瞭期待。
評分二戰後英國海濱小鎮寡婦開設書店、遭遇阻力、最終無奈失敗的故事,文風近乎白描,恬靜淡雅,平靜的敘述下流淌著深深的悲傷,有力地譴責瞭保守思想與權貴階級對文化與獨立人格的扼殺。
評分二戰後英國海濱小鎮寡婦開設書店、遭遇阻力、最終無奈失敗的故事,文風近乎白描,恬靜淡雅,平靜的敘述下流淌著深深的悲傷,有力地譴責瞭保守思想與權貴階級對文化與獨立人格的扼殺。
評分... the town in which she had lived for nearly ten years had not wanted a bookshop.
評分... the town in which she had lived for nearly ten years had not wanted a bookshop.
The Bookshop 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載