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Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
评分小说很迷人,作家的生活更迷人,这是我之前说过的。理所当然的,一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做,没有兴趣做,被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做,这我之前说过,但现在深有体会,花花世界,迷乱人眼,倒不是说哪件事情更有意义,而是感受到了自己的有限而...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
评分I really like the tone of this novel. On the one hand, It was told in a direct and detailed way that as a reader, I could depict the scense with flesh in my mind. On the other hand, despite the closeness, all the emotions in the story are still slightly det...
图书标签: 普利策 小说 LGBT Pulitzer 英文原版 英文 黑色幽默 美国
Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
前四分之三都是上等佳作,尤其体现在行文上。近几年读虚构类的英文书很少读到这么流畅的。情绪感染力也一流,话题依也非常值得探讨:当一个人是一个少数群体的一员的时候,他是很难不说这个群体的好话的,否则他瞬间就会变成“坏人”。后四分之一则有些垮掉了,简直误以为在看一部旅游浪漫剧。
评分完全不解这部小说是凭借什么获了普利策奖的。除了零星乍现的几个高亮点,全书都很无聊,忍着读完。陈述者一直在说男主人公很天真,虽然已五十岁,但没有任何章节断落是描述他如何天真的。最不能容忍的,就是靠一个陈述句刻画人物,我要的是,描述。我要证据,我不要作者丢给我一个结论。男主人公,行将五十岁,一个没什么名气的三流作家,被相处了很多年的小男友抛弃,被人提到时的标签永远是某著名诗人曾经的恋人,在收到前男友的结婚请柬后,决定环游世界。法国,德国,意大利,摩洛哥,印度,日本。在旅程中,没什么事情发生,他的旅程实在是太枯燥乏味了。少有关于他情绪的描写,作者没有提供给读者可与之主人公发生情绪共鸣的通道。读着关于他的故事,却如同一个旁观者,看着与自己擦肩而过的路人,你对他一无所知。作者的讲述,太糟糕了。
评分what was the Pulitzer committee thinking?
评分后面四分之一有点无聊,尤其是印度部分
评分很有意思的故事,小人物的失意和挣扎,作者文笔不错,非常逗乐,结尾绝对是惊喜,happy ending
Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书