George Saunders was born December 2, 1958 and raised on the south side of Chicago. In 1981 he received a B.S. in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. He worked at Radian International, an environmental engineering firm in Rochester, NY as a technical writer and geophysical engineer from 1989 to 1996. He has also worked in Sumatra on an oil exploration geophysics crew, as a doorman in Beverly Hills, a roofer in Chicago, a convenience store clerk, a guitarist in a Texas country-and-western band, and a knuckle-puller in a West Texas slaughterhouse.
After reading in People magazine about the Master's program at Syracuse University, he applied. Mr. Saunders received an MA with an emphasis in creative writing in 1988. His thesis advisor was Doug Unger.
He has been an Assistant Professor, Syracuse University Creative Writing Program since 1997. He has also been a Visiting Writer at Vermont Studio Center, University of Georgia MayMester Program, University of Denver, University of Texas at Austin, St. Petersburg Literary Seminar (St. Petersburg, Russia, Summer 2000), Brown University, Dickinson College, Hobart & William Smith Colleges.
He conducted a Guest Workshop at the Eastman School of Music, Fall 1995, and was an Adjunct Professor at Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 1990-1995; and Adjunct Professor at Siena College, Loudonville, New York in Fall 1989.
He is married and has two children.
The captivating first novel by the best-selling, National Book Award nominee George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death of his eleven year old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War.
On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son’s body. Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a novel - in its form and voice - completely unlike anything you have read before. It is also, in the end, an exploration of the deeper meaning and possibilities of life, written as only George Saunders can: with humor, pathos, and grace.
發表於2024-12-22
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閱讀過程中,我常常想起《聊齋誌異》,說來慚愧,聊齋我沒有通讀過,雖然我的網名就來自聊齋。此書能讓人有聊齋之感,除瞭都是鬼在做主角,翻譯占瞭很大的功勞。我已經太久沒看到過如此地道的漢語翻譯,甚至可以說很多地方都特彆典雅。翻譯何穎怡說,因為此書所描寫時代為林肯...
評分Loved the poignancy of the first quarter of this book, and amazed at how well the chapters comprised of quotations had worked. Tonally compassionate with his signature breezy dark humor. Saunders paints his refreshing metaphors with poetic tenderness and sw...
評分It just so happened that the other day a colleague's father had passed away and I didn't attend the funeral. That kind of place always gives me the chill, with no disrespect. I think it's because I've never faced the loss of a loved one, I can't feel the pa...
評分Loved the poignancy of the first quarter of this book, and amazed at how well the chapters comprised of quotations had worked. Tonally compassionate with his signature breezy dark humor. Saunders paints his refreshing metaphors with poetic tenderness and sw...
評分“And as the sun came up, we prayed, each within ourselves, our usual prayer: To still be here when the sun next set. And discover, in those first moments of restored movement, that we had again been granted the great mother-gift: Time. More time.” 用死亡...
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隻有Willie大喊著allowed allowed 而欣然離去 其餘的都是那麼那麼不甘願的死亡。"At the core of each lay sufferings; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end". Saunders用這種結構來寫小說真是相當令人驚艷。
評分The first one hundred pages are amazing, but it’s getting harder and harder to follow. It’s a really sad story anyway.
評分像是喧嘩的、偶爾沉靜的戲劇,我們因為什麼流連?
評分4.4 一直對曆史類小說感冒 不愛讀 所以即使17年得瞭奬我也一直沒興趣去買來看 上個月正好開始買18年布剋奬國際小說就順便買來看瞭。題材新穎,這個不用我說已經大半年過去瞭大傢都知道,也的確這樣的結構來寫曆史小說我纔看的下去。再一次以膽大為勝(但比不上16年的winner)。主要說曆史,還牽涉點政治背景。Hessians也提到瞭不容易。最喜歡那段hans vollman說輪迴是trap(這個版本的書155-156頁)簡直把我心裏想的都描述齣來瞭,也是看這本書的高潮吧。此後,便漸漸失去趣味 但也讀完瞭
評分The first one hundred pages are amazing, but it’s getting harder and harder to follow. It’s a really sad story anyway.
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