Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her novel, Stern Men, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her 2002 book, The Last American Man, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has been published in more than thirty languages; a film based on the memoir, starring Julia Roberts, opened in August 2010. Her most recent book, the memoir Committed: A Love Story, appeared in 2010. In 2008, Time magazine named Gilbert one of the most influential people in the world. Her Web site is www.elizabethgilbert.com.
Biography
While Elizabeth Gilbert's roots are in journalism -- she's a Pushcart Prize-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated writer -- it's her books that have granted her even more attention.
Gilbert departed from reporting in 1997, with the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Pilgrims. A finalist for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pilgrims was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book, was listed as one of the "Most Intriguing Books of 1997" by Glamour magazine, and went on to win best first fiction awards from The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares.
Since then, Gilbert has successfully alternated between fiction and nonfiction -- a high-wire act that has paid off in a string of critically acclaimed bestsellers that includes her first full-length novel, Stern Men (2000); The Last American Man (2002), a National Book Award for Nonfiction; and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (2006), a celebrated spiritual memoir that landed on several year-end Best Books lists.
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed
In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.
Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
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拿什麼對抗漫長人生中的孤獨感?伴侶,財富還是日復一日的勞作? 讀這本書的時候我一直在思考這個問題。 對我而言,這本書不是個人傳記,不是愛情小說,不是懸疑小說,不是任何一種虛構或紀實文學。我甚至沒有去查證書中所寫的人物,故事有多少真實性。對我而言,這都不重要。...
評分轉自六根 韓浩月 《萬物的簽名》圖書的厚度讓人望而生畏,已經很久沒讀過這麼多頁數的小說,如同耐著性子打開那些喜歡長篇大論作傢的書一樣,準備讓它考驗我的閱讀趣味,但從第一頁開始,它就抓住瞭我。 題材立足於植物,包裝上也傾嚮於像一本關於對植物的趣味解讀,但在語言...
評分文/嚴傑夫 對於今天的人來說,達爾文的“進化論”實在是普通不過的“常識”,然而每個讀過《物種起源》的讀者,卻瞭解這種“常識”背後自有一種波瀾壯闊。正如達爾文自己所說:“無數最精緻、最奇異的形式曾經並正在從如此簡單的開端演化而來,這一生命觀無比壯麗。”遺憾的是...
圖書標籤: 英文原版 小說 ElizabethGilbert 美國文學 美國 自然科學 植物 外國文學
實在太冗長瞭…成為我很長一段時間的催眠讀物…
評分What a life Alma had lived! I enjoyed this audiobook so much read by Juliet Stevenson.
評分一部1800年代女人的史詩。The mysteries of evlotution,a big novel about a big history.
評分聽的英文有聲書。作者的第一本我就不喜歡,這本仍然不喜歡。簡直是太話嘮瞭,事無巨細都要寫,有點太囉嗦。而且一開始沒有意識到這是個傳記體小說,傳記的寫法十分不習慣。
評分呼!讀得欲罷不能的大部頭,推薦給愛科學,植物學,宗教,哲學,尤其是帶有一丟丟女權主義思想的小夥伴。
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