Born in Northern Ireland in 1972, MAGGIE O'FARRELL grew up in Wales and Scotland and now lives in London. She has worked as a waitress, chambermaid, bike messenger, teacher, arts administrator, and journalist in Hong Kong and London, and as the deputy literary editor of The Independent on Sunday. Her debut novel, After You'd Gone (2000) won a Betty Trask Award and was followed by My Lover's Lover (2002); The Distance Between Us (2004), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (2006); The Hand That First Held Mine (2010), winner of the Costa Novel Award; Instructions for a Heatwave (2013), and, most recently, This Must Be the Place (2016).
An extraordinary memoir--told entirely in near-death experiences--from one of Britain's best-selling novelists, for fans of Wild, When Breath Becomes Air, and The Year of Magical Thinking.
We are never closer to life than when we brush up against the possibility of death.
I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom this book was written--from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers.
Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
發表於2024-09-12
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早就想讀Maggie O'Farrell的書。讓我捧迴傢的第一本是她的小說:This Must Be the Place, 可先結緣的還是她的這一本自傳/迴憶錄。 17次,死神的手曾輕拂過她的肩膀。 也許是齣於一種偷窺式的好奇心理,看到書名的時候我不自覺從商店的書架上取下它,翻開第一頁,隻讀瞭一兩段...
評分早就想讀Maggie O'Farrell的書。讓我捧迴傢的第一本是她的小說:This Must Be the Place, 可先結緣的還是她的這一本自傳/迴憶錄。 17次,死神的手曾輕拂過她的肩膀。 也許是齣於一種偷窺式的好奇心理,看到書名的時候我不自覺從商店的書架上取下它,翻開第一頁,隻讀瞭一兩段...
評分早就想讀Maggie O'Farrell的書。讓我捧迴傢的第一本是她的小說:This Must Be the Place, 可先結緣的還是她的這一本自傳/迴憶錄。 17次,死神的手曾輕拂過她的肩膀。 也許是齣於一種偷窺式的好奇心理,看到書名的時候我不自覺從商店的書架上取下它,翻開第一頁,隻讀瞭一兩段...
評分早就想讀Maggie O'Farrell的書。讓我捧迴傢的第一本是她的小說:This Must Be the Place, 可先結緣的還是她的這一本自傳/迴憶錄。 17次,死神的手曾輕拂過她的肩膀。 也許是齣於一種偷窺式的好奇心理,看到書名的時候我不自覺從商店的書架上取下它,翻開第一頁,隻讀瞭一兩段...
評分早就想讀Maggie O'Farrell的書。讓我捧迴傢的第一本是她的小說:This Must Be the Place, 可先結緣的還是她的這一本自傳/迴憶錄。 17次,死神的手曾輕拂過她的肩膀。 也許是齣於一種偷窺式的好奇心理,看到書名的時候我不自覺從商店的書架上取下它,翻開第一頁,隻讀瞭一兩段...
圖書標籤: 傳記-迴憶錄 迴憶錄 隨筆 詞匯 英語學習 英語 英國文學 自傳
這本書寫得非常生動,詞句使用非常到位,情緒描寫也是深入人心。人生中17次煎熬,一次比一次揪心。最後一章說她女兒的是我的最愛。
評分Maggie O'Farrell的第一部非虛構作品,上瞭不少網站的推薦榜單。單看書名(主書名和副書名皆是如此)以及封麵就很讓人有閱讀欲,內容全部取材於作者的生平,截取瞭作者“直麵死亡”的十七個人生片段,以非常戲劇化筆觸,講述瞭一個個動人的小故事,串聯起作者頗為傳奇的人生。O'Farrell畢竟是寫小說起傢,雖然是迴憶錄,但結構的設置很巧妙,文筆非常好,細膩且不乏深度;故事娓娓道來,講的都很完整,有伏筆也有高潮,感情很充沛(用她的編輯的原話,即“electrifying”)。全書的最後,作者的焦點不再局限於自身,同時延伸到下一代,非常溫馨,也使這種書寫更加有意義——不論是私人意義還是公眾價值。
評分這本書寫得非常生動,詞句使用非常到位,情緒描寫也是深入人心。人生中17次煎熬,一次比一次揪心。最後一章說她女兒的是我的最愛。
評分感受生命的頑強。
評分I totally enjoyed reading the first several chapters but later on I felt the author complaining after another with literally NO wisdom gleaned from each event.A good memoir is one where you know the author is making stuff up or stretching the truth a bit, but you don't care. This one, I thought she was exaggerating a bit too much.
I Am, I Am, I Am 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載