Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981.Was it murder or self-defense?For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction.Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case.
It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman's Card Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariously funny black drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young blacks dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight.These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic.
發表於2024-12-24
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在這樣一個偏遠小鎮上,竟然有這麼豐富多彩的人物,他們個個性格各異,並且個個都非常有特殊,每個人都在自己的領地裏展示這自己的豐富生活,我很喜歡這些人,雖然他們都存在這很大的缺點,但是他們卻過著多彩的,是我們這些過著平凡日子的人所羨慕的,他們真是由於他們...
評分如果不假思索,絕大多數人都可能認為天堂就是充分滿足感官享受的地方,基本上就是一個想吃啥吃啥,想喝啥喝啥,想看啥看啥,聽啥聽啥,想怎麼睡誰就怎麼睡誰的地方。當然境界高點的人可能還會要求證實哥德巴赫猜想什麼的,但是對一般人而言,能充分滿足感官享受的地方就...
評分這本書我毫不費力的看完瞭,但是確實對於本書暢銷程度不是很理解,個人認為嚴格的說,這本小說一定程度反應瞭作者的人生態度和語言環境。讀起來其實沒有感覺到更深的懸疑邏輯,其實是對沙凡納這座城市所體現的生活氛圍的一種詮釋,在描述中自然得讓讀者領略到生活中的不羈與人...
評分如果不假思索,絕大多數人都可能認為天堂就是充分滿足感官享受的地方,基本上就是一個想吃啥吃啥,想喝啥喝啥,想看啥看啥,聽啥聽啥,想怎麼睡誰就怎麼睡誰的地方。當然境界高點的人可能還會要求證實哥德巴赫猜想什麼的,但是對一般人而言,能充分滿足感官享受的地方就...
評分午夜善惡花園 12級5班陶羅琪 這是一本很神奇的書。 說它神奇,實在不為過。它是真實的,但不代錶它完全真實;它含有虛構,可很難看齣它在哪裏開始虛構。所有的真實與虛假猶如光和影一般融閤在一起,恰到好處,仿佛本身就不存在分離一樣。它不是小說,也...
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逼格極高的pure gossip。有人可能認為這本書的成功源於Savannah這地方太特殊,又碰巧遇到一班超有料的cast,謀殺案就更是錦上添花。我倒覺得不管在哪個城市哪個小鎮,隻要挖的夠深,都能掘齣個jim williams、danny hansford、chablis。
評分開始讀!據說讀完會愛上Savannah!
評分十五年前看過改編電影完全沒任何印象,前幾天去旅行纔意識到這書是寫薩瓦納的,因為完全被城市迷住所以迴來立即找來讀,驚為天人,感覺被作者帶著又走瞭一遍全城所有的house tour, history tour, ghost tour,字裏行間都能體會到小城的氣息,這種奇怪獨特又迷人的氣質勾得我也想一次次再迴去,或者默默住上半年。如何寫一座城市,這書真是極緻瞭。電影根本改不齣來的。
評分The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.
評分exotic, funny and enchanting
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