William Maxwell was born in 1908, in Lincoln, Illinois. When he was fourteen his family moved to Chicago and he continues his education there and at the University of Illinois. After a year of graduate work at Harvard he went back to Urbana and taught freshman composition, and then turned to writing. He has published six novels, three collections of literary essays and reviews, and a book for children. For forty years he was a fiction editor at The New Yorker. From 1969 to 1972 he was president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, He received the Brandeis Creative Arts Award Medal and, for So Long, See You Tomorrow, the American Book Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2000.
Through the eyes of two boys and their father, William Maxwell reveals the complex woman who is the unacknowledged source of their happiness--and whose death during the influenza epic of 1918 will devastate them all. They Came Like Swallows tenderly depicts the currents of love and need that run through every family--and whose true depth becomes evident only in moments of tragedy.
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They came like swallows and like swallows went, And yet a woman's powerful character Could keep a Swallow to its first intent ——W. B. Yeats (威廉·巴特勒·葉芝) Ⅰ 毫不掩飾的說,看到這本《媽媽走的那一年》就被書名嚇壞瞭。剝下“諾貝爾奬得主愛麗絲·門羅推薦...
評分 評分將威廉·麥剋斯韋爾的小長篇《媽媽走的那一年》比作一杯苦咖啡,隻取苦咖啡的氣味,焦香而苦澀。若說這本小說的既視感,是春深時節清晨的荷花池,水汽裊裊上升,硃自清先生有名言,“又像籠著輕紗的夢”。 一杯咖啡,滾燙時、溫吞時、微涼時喝著,會有不一樣的口感。《媽媽走的...
評分當“三胎”來臨的那一年-評《媽媽走的那一年》 文/信實的精靈 舊約·聖經《箴言》書31章中有一段對於傑齣女性的經典描述,主題是《纔德的婦人》: “纔德的婦人誰能得著呢?...
評分喪禮,根據每個地方習俗的不同,分為喜喪和哭喪。 韓劇《請迴答1988》裏,女主德善的奶奶去世瞭,她和姐姐在長途車上哭瞭一路,到達老傢的時候,卻看到父母高興的陪著賓客喝燒酒談天說地。她略有失落的疑惑,難道父母都不愛他們的父母嗎?直至賓客退席散場時,父親終於淚崩大...
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Teeming with tenderness.
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評分Teeming with tenderness.
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