The Lovely Bones

出版者:Little, Brown and Company

作者:Alice Sebold

页数:328

出版时间:2002-06

价格:USD 21.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780316666343

图书标签:AliceSebold美国LovelyBones家庭外国文学英文原版爱

On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue." The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife.Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons

读后感

9月15日，星期五，上午11点，我在纽约Penn Station火车站等同事，顺便溜达进出口处的书店，顺手拿起一本书来翻看。书的名字叫The Lovely Bones，似乎在豆瓣还是哪里见过介绍的，一直没有翻过。"I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."(1973年12月6日，我被...  

外面在下雨，黑黑的夜无边，时而有路灯光从窗外洒落进车窗，冰凉地铺洒到手中的书上。 纸惨白。 故事惨白。 火车奔腾在默默长夜中，我心底飘过几声叹息，有泪水为苏西哭泣。 “1973年12月6日，我被谋杀时才十四岁……” 这是故事的开头，这句I was fourteen when I was murder...  

不知是不是只有自恋之极的人才会频繁的思考我死了之后其他人的痛苦的样子。 记不清我在多大年龄就开始考虑这个问题，我反复的想，反复的想 也许是在青春期的开始和过程中，想要体现自己的重要性或是觉得没有继续生存下去的信仰，这一切在现在看来真的是可笑而又轻易粉...  

小說一開頭就讓我知道這是一個悲劇的故事 蘇西是一個14歲的高中女孩 她在某天放學返家的路上被鄰居哈維強暴後殺害、並將屍體分屍丟棄 作者用第一人稱的口吻描寫蘇西死後在天堂所看到的一切 她看到自己的爸爸是如何自責、媽媽無法接受她的死亡而離家 她看到妹妹一夜之間長...  

用户评价

非常好看，而且电影的版本也很好看。

终于读完了。中间歇读3个月……

不明白peter jackson为什么会拍这一类型的电影

非常喜欢在图书馆工作的那个男生，很贴心的打电话给我说预留的书到了。

终于读完了。中间歇读3个月……