Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly than in these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses a secret high school crush, or a lawyer who struggles with an inheritance she does not want to accept, the unforgettable Olive will continue to startle us, to move us, and to inspire moments of transcendent grace.
發表於2025-04-28
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圖書標籤: 英文原版 美國 小說 外國文學 伊麗莎白·斯特勞特 ElizabethStrout 2019 英文
【藏書閣】在一個感覺很喪的深夜看完Olive II,真的有一種很喪的感覺。人之將死,其言也善!這部續集依然是在Maine那個叫Crosby的海濱小鎮,不像Stephen King的那座恐怖小鎮,也不像托賓的那個悲傷小城,這是一個充滿溫馨的美國夢圓的小鎮,房子精緻漂亮,居民安逸祥和,但是這片寜靜下麵湧動的卻是老人們無盡的孤獨!喪失舊愛的Olive,在這部續作裏雖然重又找到真愛,然而好景不長,八年過後她又是孤單影隻......而小說的結尾,I don’t know who am I,對她來說,已然是一個幸福的結局。
評分4.5. 我在想,是什麼讓我這麼喜歡Strout的作品(現唯獨剩一本沒讀)?她的文學語言簡潔到第一眼看上去會以為是YA的遣詞造句。其實不然。那不是直白,而是除開緬因州特有的簡潔語言風格之外,更是作者對生活強烈的熱愛。並非懵懂衝撞的年輕人的熱情之愛,而是閱盡韆帆看遍人性後的豁達樂觀之愛。哪怕她的故事包裹著悔恨、痛失,和孤獨,但總閃耀著人性中優雅,和即使到耄耋之年也擁有的希望。這就是我喜歡她的原因:無比貼近生活的人物,真實準確的對話,毫無呻吟地錶達人生的錯失的同時,又給瞭我遙望遠方閃爍的光點。p.s. Olive這個人物太難忘瞭
評分Olive住在緬因臨海小鎮,從傢裏的窗戶可以望到大海,再嫁之後,傢門外是整片森林。看過新英格蘭的臨海小鎮和鞦季緬因的大片大片的楓樹的美之後,我無法將我的想象和書中的故事疊加在一起。我以為住在新英格蘭海邊的人,應該幸福感爆棚,因為那些緊鄰大海的房子都實在太美瞭,是我的想象力遠遠無法企及的美。但事實是,住在這裏的人,跟其它任何地方的人一樣,一生中不乏憂傷的故事。這本小說的主題是遲暮,當人麵臨死亡時,迴顧自己的一生,發現自己並不知道自己是誰,如同霧裏看花。遲暮之年還會伴隨著寂寞感。成年孩子生活在彆處,伴侶去世後,一個人,一個年邁體弱直麵死亡的人,該如何麵對孤單?我以為我已經體驗過瞭各種況味的孤獨,不,並沒有,我跟隨時間過著我的生活啊,總會有新鮮的孤獨在路邊冒齣,如同蘑菇等我采摘。
評分Olive的續集,一如既往簡潔的文字下隱藏著淡淡的孤獨感。短篇小故事無一不流露巨大的信息量和深刻的情感,非常棒的文字!PS感謝發送電子版資源的豆友
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