Tobias Wolff was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and grew up in Washington State. He attended Oxford University and Stanford University, where he now teaches English and creative writing. He has received the Story Prize, both the Rea Award and PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
From the Back Cover
The debut title in Ecco's the art of the Story Series—a collection of twelve short works of fiction that showcase Tobias Wolff's extraordinary craft
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, Tobias Wolff's first collection of short fiction, hailed the arrival of a major talent and the beginning of an acclaimed, bestselling career. In each of these sharply crafted stories, his characters, drawn from everyday life, stumble over each other in their baffled yet resolute search for the "right path."
Among the characters in these twelve stories are a teenage boy who tells morbid lies about his home life; a timid professor who, in the first genuine outburst of her life, pours out her opinions in spite of a protesting audience; a prudish loner who gives an obnoxious hitchhiker a ride; and an elderly couple on a golden anniversary cruise who endures the offensive conviviality of the ship's social director.
發表於2024-11-22
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《乘客》《北美殉道者花園》《騙子》給我的觸動最大,筆尖裏帶著的孤獨和失望,有些篇章感覺就是破碎的,不知道原文是這樣的還是翻譯的問題。以前老師教我們寫作的時候說的是,無論大傢是聽歌看書還是看電影,究其根本都是在看自己,若是將人描述盡瞭,我想總會有人在關上書後...
評分 評分先說說幾句關於作者的話。托拜厄斯·沃爾夫和雷濛德·卡佛齊名,被歸類到所謂骯髒現實主義作傢(dirty realists)的流派中。骯髒現實主義這個術語,是由《格蘭塔》(Granta)雜誌編輯比爾·巴福德(Bill Buford)創造的,用來指代那些用簡樸語言描述普通人生活骯髒、齷蹉麵的現...
評分In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, introducing its protagonist, Mary, a professor of History at Brandon College. Mary is a fearful woman who keeps her opinions to herself. At the beginning of her teaching career, she witnessed a brilliant professo...
評分這種書讀來隻會讓人鬱悶。書中形形色色各種人物,各種年齡,各種身份,各種關係,未必不得誌,未必缺少愛,未必沒有榮光時刻,未必覺得人生不值得一過,但就是不開心,這種不開心不是特定針對某件事某個人,而像是一種形而上的不開心,因為人生就是如此啊,漫長乏味,看不到盡...
圖書標籤: 美國 Fiction 小說 原版書 美國文學 文學 短篇 講故事
有幾篇很喜歡
評分有幾篇很喜歡
評分最近讀過的最帶感的短篇集,每篇都那麼好,描寫得那麼精準。請等待我的譯本,預2014年齣版。
評分介於三星半與四星之間吧。很有一種風格的短篇,比較“收”,句點之後總還有點什麼的那種。
評分這人的寫作風格很疏懶,其實倒是《紐約客》專職作傢。一個精明之處是小說裏通常隻流露一個人的所思所想,而其餘人都在此人的鏡頭下被反復端詳。一旦(在某幾篇裏)作者跳齣這種模式,錶明他對這個人物都沒有什麼同情瞭。
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