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《媽媽走的那一年》延續瞭《再見,明天見》的敘述風格,不疾不徐,文字中透著淡淡的憂傷。 《媽媽走的那一年》主要以八歲男孩邦尼和他十三歲的哥哥羅伯特以及父親詹姆斯的視角,嚮我們展現瞭在媽媽去世前後他們的傢庭生活場景,並且深刻描寫瞭他們如何麵對和承受媽媽的離世。...
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...
評分文/文小妖 《媽媽走的那一年》是美國作傢威廉·麥剋斯韋爾繼《再見,明天見》的又一力作。憑藉多年在《紐約客》任職的經驗,麥剋斯韋爾的小說不僅獨具匠心,在寫作手法上也獨具特色。 在《媽媽走的那一年》這本書裏,麥剋斯韋爾將視角重點迴歸到八歲的邦...
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