Mattie Gokey has a word for everything. She collects words, stores them up as a way of fending off the hard truths of her life, the truths that she can't write down in stories.The fresh pain of her mother's death. The burden of raising her sisters while her father struggles over his brokeback farm. The mad welter of feelings Mattie has for handsome but dull Royal Loomis, who says he wants to marry her. And the secret dreams that keep her going--visions of finishing high school, going to college in New York City, becoming a writer.Yet when the drowned body of a young woman turns up at the hotel where Mattie works, all her words are useless. But in the dead woman's letters, Mattie again finds her voice, and a determination to live her own life.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy, " this coming-of-age novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.
發表於2024-12-02
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half historical fiction half realism. Two girls' life stories elaborately weaven together. The farm girl's desperate passion for literature is the most sparking part. You can label it as anti-racism and feminism, but it is just a simple, beautiful, touching novel.
評分half historical fiction half realism. Two girls' life stories elaborately weaven together. The farm girl's desperate passion for literature is the most sparking part. You can label it as anti-racism and feminism, but it is just a simple, beautiful, touching novel.
評分高中的第一本英語小說,曆時3年以上
評分高中的第一本英語小說,曆時3年以上
評分高中的第一本英語小說,曆時3年以上
A Northern Light 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載