From Publishers Weekly Kelman (Someone's Watching; Summer of Storms; etc.) saddles her protagonist, New York writer Claire Barrow, with a heap of problems in this knotty suspense thriller. Claire's police detective husband has committed suicide, leaving her to care for his rebellious teenage daughter; her money and her identity have been stolen; her mother is depressed; her beloved editor has disappeared, leaving her with a nasty new one who doesn't like her work; an old flame is becoming increasingly persistent; a street preacher rants outside her house night and day; and she's got a bad case of writer's block. Then her computer crashes and wipes out all her files. If this sounds like more than any character, real or fictional, should reasonably be expected to deal with, it is. And to top things off, the serial killer her husband fought to put behind bars, B.B. LeBeau, aka the Eel, has just been released from prison on a technicality. The Eel has somehow become the darling of an imbecilic press, and the police are inexplicably powerless to intervene as he begins hunting down everyone who had anything to do with his incarceration, including the unlucky Claire. Accompanying these woes is a gaggle of secondary characters whose primary purpose appears to be to get killed. It's almost as if Kelman feels she's lost control of her book, and thus uses Claire to voice her concerns: "A writer could get trapped in that murky twilight between her invention and herself." An implausible ending drives the last stake through the heart of an effort that fails to live up to Kelman's usual high standards.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist From the title's riff on the disturbing stalker song by the Police through the excruciating accumulation of tiny incursions that add up to identity theft, this thriller hits all the right notes. Avoiding an overly Kafkaesque tone, Kelman writes, above all, a novel of character. Author Claire Barrow is the widow of a cop, the stepmother of a problematic teen, and the "orphan" of her longtime editor, who has been ousted from the publishing house. Her new editor demands a book proposal starring a current issue, and Barrow comes up with a novel in which the heroine's life is ripped off. Then her own life begins to mirror that of her heroine's, culminating in a murder charge based on Barrow's license plate. Barrow's reactions to the theft of a life that, with her husband's death, had lost its value are intriguingly complex. Her fight for her life, on both levels, escalates the action from the computer screen to reverse tailing and beautifully choreographed climax. This thirteenth Kelman thriller is a true nail-biter. Connie FletcherCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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读完这本书,我感觉自己像是经历了一场漫长而艰苦的攀登,但到达山顶后,看到的却是一片平淡无奇的景色,这多少有些令人失望。这本书的叙事结构非常实验性,采用了多重视角切换,理论上这能提供更广阔的视野,但实际阅读起来,却像是在一个黑暗的房间里,不断被强光灯闪烁,让人难以聚焦。不同人物的口吻和思考方式,一开始辨识度很高,但随着篇幅的增加,这种差异性开始模糊,我经常需要回头翻看前几页,才能确定现在是哪个人在说话。更要命的是,作者似乎沉迷于使用大量的隐喻和象征手法,每一个物体、每一个天气现象,似乎都隐藏着某种深奥的意义。我尝试去解读,去挖掘,甚至查阅了一些相关的文学评论,但最终发现,很多解读都显得牵强附会,最终得出的结论是:也许作者只是喜欢用华丽的辞藻去包装一个相对简单的核心理念。对于习惯了清晰叙事和明确主题的读者来说,这本书的阅读体验无疑是挫败的。它要求读者付出过多的努力,去拼凑一个摇摇欲坠的整体印象,而回报却不成比例。
评分这本书的语言风格,用“晦涩”来形容或许还不够贴切,更像是“故作高深”。我能感受到作者在文字运用上的精雕细琢,许多句子读起来朗朗上口,画面感十足,尤其是在描写自然场景时,简直就是一幅幅精美的油画。但是,当涉及到人物的对话和内心独白时,那种刻意的文学腔调就显得非常突兀和矫揉造作了。角色们说话的语气,完全不符合一个真实生活中的人应该有的交流方式,更像是作者在用一种过分修饰过的腔调念诵自己的散文集。我读到一些关键的情感爆发点,本应是撕心裂肺的时刻,却因为过于冗长和书面化的表达,让人感到疏离,无法产生真正的情感共鸣。我更喜欢那种直击人心的,哪怕略显粗糙但真挚有力的文字。这本书的美学追求似乎完全凌驾于叙事功能之上,导致了阅读体验上的一大障碍。我常常需要停下来,反复琢磨一句台词的真实含义,而不是沉浸于故事本身的情节发展。
评分坦白说,这本书的开篇着实抓住了我的注意力,那种扑面而来的时代气息和人物命运的沉重感,让人无法抗拒。我一度认为我找到了近年来最棒的史诗级巨著。然而,中段的叙事像是一条突然分岔的河流,主线开始变得泥泞不堪。作者似乎试图探讨的主题过于宏大,涵盖了历史变迁、个人救赎、社会批判等多个维度,结果却是样样都沾边,样样都不精深。每一个议题都只是蜻蜓点水般地触碰了一下,随后又迅速转入另一个角色的回忆录,让人感到头晕目眩。我特别想知道主角A最终如何面对他造成的那个错误,但作者却花费了十万字的篇幅去描述另一个次要角色B在异乡的求职经历,虽然这段经历在某种程度上反映了那个时代的困境,但对于主线剧情而言,作用微乎其微,更像是作者的个人偏好投射,而非服务于整体故事。这种叙事上的失衡,极大地削弱了阅读的流畅性,使得我的阅读兴趣曲线呈现出明显的“V”形——高开低走。
评分这本书,我花了整整一周的时间才勉强读完,说实话,心里的感受非常复杂,有点像刚看完一场时长过久、情节又过于拖沓的家庭伦理剧。作者在构建人物心理层面确实下了一番功夫,每一个角色的纠结、犹豫,那种深植于骨髓的宿命感,都描摹得入木三分。然而,这种细腻的处理,到了中后段就显得有些过火了。情节的推进速度慢得像蜗牛在涂满蜂蜜的玻璃上爬行,很多本该一笔带过的场景,被冗长且重复的内心独白占据了大量的篇幅。我几次差点想合上书,转而去读点轻松愉快的。比如,主角对于他童年阴影的分析,从第三章开始就反复咀嚼,读到第七章时,我几乎能背出他关于“缺乏安全感”的理论模型了。这种对“深度”的执着追求,反而稀释了故事本身的张力。我更倾向于那种节奏明快、情感冲击力强的作品,这本书更像是一篇需要反复研读的哲学论文,而不是一次酣畅淋漓的阅读体验。最后,那种开放式的结局处理,更是让人如鲠在喉,仿佛作者在最关键的时刻,把笔一甩,留给读者一堆等待自己去填补的空白,虽然艺术性上或许值得称道,但就阅读的满足感而言,实在算不上圆满。
评分从装帧设计和纸张质感来看,这绝对是一本精心制作的作品,拿在手上很有分量感,让人心生敬意。然而,内容上的体验却与这份实体上的精致感形成了鲜明的反差。这本书最令人诟病的地方在于其情节的逻辑性,或者说,是其故事情节的可信度。随着故事的深入,为了制造戏剧冲突和所谓的“命运的嘲弄”,作者安排了太多巧合和难以置信的事件。比如,两个在不同大洲生活了二十年的人,恰好在同一个不起眼的咖啡馆里相遇,并且他们都恰好认识那个唯一知道他们身世秘密的老仆人。这种情节的密集堆砌,已经超出了文学虚构的合理范畴,更像是编剧在面对巨大压力下,仓促写出的“强行转折”。我是一个非常看重故事内在逻辑自洽性的读者,一旦情节的根基开始动摇,即使文字再华丽,我也很难再继续相信这个世界观。这本书的后半部分,完全是建立在一系列不太合理的“好运气”和“坏运气”之上,这使得前期铺垫的所有关于“选择与后果”的深刻探讨,都显得苍白无力。
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