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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莉在“三十而立”時的自述,迴憶往事,她有一段話說得非常透徹: “當然,現在我會奇怪,我從哪裏得到這樣的想法,你要參加一個聚會,彆的人必須確確實實地希望你在那裏,他們的熱情不夠瘋狂,就意味著他們討厭你。我從哪裏得到這樣的想法,被人討厭是如此重大的事?現在...
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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
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評分抱著非常低的期望,但成為很大的驚喜。低自尊、眼高手低、overly self-conscious的青春期女孩敏感心理刻畫入木三分,配以一個如影隨形無時無刻籠罩在主人公頭頂的主題:如何麵對優勢文化?如何麵對強勢文化是每個人在一生中不同階段總歸要麵臨的問題,它大到是你的齣身、階層、語言、文化,小到你是如何發音你每句話末的尾音。Intersectionality決定每個人總有一種社會屬性將她處於劣勢地位,而我們大多數人能力卻不足以允許自己和這些優勢文化徹底分道揚鑣,隻能在心理層麵尋求和解。高中四年裏,主人公在這個問題上沒有絲毫長進,but why is that so important to be liked?
評分How did you know if you loved another person? Was it a hunch like a good smell that you couldn't identify for sure, or did a time come when you have evidence? Was it like walking through a house and once your'd cressed a threshold, that was love and you w
評分1) Popular version of Atwood 2) who hasn't gone thru high school before not to understand the most sensitive yet tender nerves in the book 3) bittersweet (though more bitter than sweet) 4) very preppy, thus true. 5) touched by the end, "the world is big"
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