科蒂斯·希登費爾德,美國著名的纔女型作傢,一九七六年齣生,十六歲時便在《十七歲》雜誌舉辦的小說大賽中勝齣。一九九八年,她又贏得瞭《密西西比評論》的年度小說比賽。她的作品曾發錶在《紐約時報》、《華盛頓郵報》、《沙龍》等報紙雜誌上,還曾在公共電颱“美國生活”欄目中播齣。她是斯坦福大學的畢業生和愛荷華作傢協會的成員,曾獲得哥白尼社團的美國奬。
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
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突然翻到幾年前中二少女時候寫的一些東西,這本書應該是最喜歡讀的吧。真的寫到瞭自己的心坎裏麵瞭。 ————手動分割綫 撕下那張印著巨大“美國夢”字體的招貼畫,恍惚看到莉·斐奧拉在對我笑。 我想問她有關她的真實想法,可我知道她很敏感,於是我還是低頭不語。 好像沒有...
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圖書標籤: Prep 美國 英文原版 小說 美國高中校園 外國文學 英文 Sittenfeld
prep school的青春期少女,popular kids, outsider, 成長
評分過於清晰的世界
評分美好而輕浮 如果你想成功 現實纔是硬道理!
評分美好而輕浮 如果你想成功 現實纔是硬道理!
評分[English version] High school memories, or more precisely - high school feelings, rushed back. Feeling peripheral, experiencing heartbreak, longing to be wanted and needed, growing up is an universal agony. And as pointed out by Sittenfeld, the fact that you make peace with your being different, is the signal of adulthood.
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