NATHAN HILL's short fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Iowa Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, and Fiction, which awarded him its annual Fiction Prize. A native Iowan, he lives with his wife in Naples, Florida.
发表于2024-12-22
The Nix 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
小的时候,我们总以为自己很特别,等时间推着年轮慢慢往前走,我们认识了世界,认识了社会,明白自己不过是芸芸众生里的一员,像大海里的一滴水,以自己的方式助推潮起潮落,也像沙漠里的一粒沙,在自己的角落里露宿餐风。 经年累月,一滴水也许被浪花挥洒成照片里绝美的风景,...
评分 评分 评分图书标签: 英文原版 美国文学 小说 美国 Literary 2017 英文版 白
A Nix can take many forms. In Norwegian folklore, it is a spirit who sometimes appears as a white horse that steals children away. In Nathan Hill’s remarkable first novel, a Nix is anything you love that one day disappears, taking with it a piece of your heart.
It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy. Now she’s re-appeared, having committed an absurd crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the internet, and inflames a politically divided country. The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high-school sweetheart. Which version of his mother is true? Two facts are certain: she’s facing some serious charges, and she needs Samuel’s help.
To save her, Samuel will have to embark on his own journey, uncovering long-buried secrets about the woman he thought he knew, secrets that stretch across generations and have their origin all the way back in Norway, home of the mysterious Nix. As he does so, Samuel will confront not only Faye’s losses but also his own lost love, and will relearn everything he thought he knew about his mother, and himself.
From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, The Nix explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
首推Ari Fliakos的有声书 每一个角色都有自己独特的声线。politics family love friendship business gay/lesbian child abuse畅销书的元素一应俱全 作者想用各个角色反映大时代下小人物的复杂内心 然而联系却很松散 比如Pwnage跟Laura Potsdam的部分纵然诙谐也极具现实意义但跟主题的联系脆弱不堪一击 Faye的人格跟盲人摸象的关系也很牵强。说烂尾的盆友们给作者一个自我剖白的机会也没什么错吧。出版时间对应美国大选时机简直不要更精准!!
评分4.7 很是幽默 就连结尾部分我都笑出两次来,也很能break it down的说故事方式,虽说600多页 也是一周下来下班后回来看再加个周末能解决的好读的故事。我一般给分都是0.5一个区别 但是这回真的就差那么点点就可以给5分啦 还是不错的
评分读完后又去看了三段Nathan Hill签书巡回的座谈访问,The Nix花了他用三年时间写,六年时间做research,他说Pwnage其实是跟自己研究生毕业后去纽约的一段生活相关。当初拿着自己的作品(还没开始写The Nix) 到处碰壁, 因为纽约本来作家就满地开花。在Queens跟11个老爷们儿挤着住。有一次因为搬家,临时把家当包括电脑,还有装满作品备份的硬盘都锁在车后备箱, 结果发现下班回来后都被盗。 一时心灰意冷开始打魔兽(是真的, 魔兽!) 颓废了好一整子。 后来就理所当然写了这么个人物。 加之自己正职是大学大一大二写作课老师, 难免现实中会遇到像Laura的那种学生。 Faye呢,取材于他妈,但他跟他妈本身关系很好并没谁抛弃谁。
评分好讽刺好犀利好真实!前几章关于政客、媒体和privileged millennials直接在公车上笑出了声。很多书评都说是David Foster Wallace式犀利并meta的文风。后面越看越神:2011、80年代、60年代、40年代相互交错;9个角色的POV叙述,这其中包括一本以第二人称叙述的choose your own adventure book,让我们理解和同情每个人的经历。就是这结尾太烂尾了啊!好像没时间草草收场,或者是要达到choose your own adventure book那种“条条线索均汇合”的统一。而且结尾咋都开始说教了呢。
评分阅读体验超级流畅。想一口气读完,又舍不得读完。朗读者太重要了。会捧着书重读。
The Nix 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书