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.
成長,始終應該是一個學著“接納”的過程。我們會收獲這個在我們自己的認知裏越發清晰的世界帶給我們的驚喜,也需要承受它帶給我們的考驗。倘若一切其實並不美好,我們也要學著原諒。 《萬物的簽名》講述的,便是這樣一個關於原諒的故事。作為一本帶有曆史小說風格的傳記體...
評分 評分瞭解當時的西方社會背景再讀這個小說真的很魔幻。從英國著名的邱園齣來的亨利經曆環球航海發現瞭販賣治療瘧疾的金雞納樹皮的商機,建立起白畝莊園,每周白畝莊園的晚宴是科學傢、天文學傢、文學傢們的辯論會,阿爾瑪就在這樣的環境中長大,成為一名偉大的女性植物學傢。現實與...
評分 評分看瞭一半以後,雲山霧罩。開始以為是個藥業帝國的血戰興衰史,幾章以後走嚮瞭姐妹撕逼莊園愛情劇。在Alma發現一本兒性愛寶典以後,我滿心歡喜地準備看女性解放後的身心爆發。落空。開始懷疑是不是要展開廢奴運動。也沒有。Alma經過半本書,長成一個十九世紀初有獨立思考和科學...
小說前半部分節奏輕快,情節有趣,在加上前奏的背景音樂,仿佛置身於簡奧斯汀”英倫鄉村風光“的感覺。可是後半部分有點腦洞大開,最後竟然成為瞭女版達爾文瞭。但是總體來說是本好看的小說,如果能夠精簡一些就更好啦~~
评分人物過於單薄刻闆,撐不起這麼大跨度的敘事
评分磨好久纔讀完,其實並不會鑒賞英文小說,但喜歡故事設定:女知識分子,探索,植物學傢,漂洋過海,塔希提島,進化論和超自然,個個都很帶勁。Alma一生的終極意義在於研究、讀懂這個世界,從費城到塔希提到阿姆斯特丹,遠離故土卻終得理解而永不孤獨。
评分不好給評價呀,前半本非常好看,老派的英文和十八世紀的故事很精彩。但是書的後半部分就有點太貧瞭……
评分呼!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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