From Publishers Weekly Fleming, a journalist and contributor to the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour , describes her unsuccessful attempts to conceive a baby in her late 30s and considers the social upheaval that led so many women of her generation (she is now 44) to postpone childbearing. Arguing that the women's liberation movement in its early years was hostile towards families, she also recalls the childhood experiences that led her and her friends to recoil from "the often strained arrangement of our parents' lives and marriages." These women sought professional success and financial independence previously denied to women, often skirmished with husbands and lovers still unwilling to help out around the house and found the prospect of assuming the responsibility for children overwhelming. When they felt ready to have children, many of these women discovered they had waited too long. While some readers may find Fleming's anguished reaction to high-tech fertility procedures a bit overwrought, most will appreciate her hard-won insights. "I had made my choices, sometimes with fierce deliberation, sometimes inadvertently, and I would live with them," she writes--a conclusion that will resonate with those who lived through the past quarter-century's painful quest to redefine gender roles. First serial to the New York Times Magazine. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal When journalist Fleming finally felt ready to have a baby at the age of 37, she discovered that she was unable to conceive. Her desire to become pregnant was strong, so she ultimately tried the various fixes modern fertility experts offer. As she pursued this elusive quest, she found herself reviewing the events of her life that had led her to postpone childbearing until it was too late. Each chapter alternates between Fleming's earlier years, which were shaped by the feminist writings of the 1960s, and her later experiences with various medical procedures. Although the author's stream-of-consciousness style does not do justice to her interesting journey, many women will undoubtedly recognize themselves in this book. Recommended for medium to large public libraries.January Adams, ODSI Research Lib., Raritan, N.J.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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从语言风格来看,这位作者无疑是一位驾驭文字的行家,她用词的精准度和语感的丰富性令人惊叹。她的笔触时而锐利如手术刀,剖开那些社会习俗和性别期待的虚伪外衣;时而又柔软如丝绒,轻抚那些最脆弱、最不愿示人的内在伤口。书中运用了大量的意象和象征,但绝非故弄玄虚,而是恰到好处地将抽象的情感具象化。比如,她描述等待时的那种焦灼感,不是简单的“心急”,而是化为一种“像玻璃瓶中被困住的蜂鸟,翅膀徒劳地拍打着透明的壁垒”的画面感,极具画面冲击力。这种对细节的极致捕捉,使得原本可能显得沉重的主题,因为文字本身的美感而被提升到了艺术的高度。我甚至会为了欣赏某一个绝妙的措辞或一个精妙的比喻,而不得不停下来,反复咀嚼其背后的韵味,这对于一本探讨沉重主题的作品来说,是一种难得的高级享受。
评分这部作品最让我感到震撼的,是它对“缺席”这一概念的深入探讨。它探讨的不是“拥有”什么,而是“没有”什么——没有达成的目标,没有遵循的道路,没有被回应的呼唤。这种对“未完成”状态的审视,非常具有颠覆性。它挑战了我们社会中根深蒂固的“完成主义”价值观,强迫读者去思考,生命中那些被标记为“失败”或“未遂”的时刻,是否才是真正塑造我们身份的核心要素。作者没有将这些缺失描绘成生命的污点,反而将其视为一种独特的景观,一种在边界地带孕育出的坚韧。这种视角转换带来了一种强大的解放感,仿佛书中的角色终于可以卸下扮演“成功者”的面具,坦然面对自己生命结构中那些显而易见的“空白”。对于那些在人生十字路口感到迷茫或停滞的人来说,这本书提供了一种另类的、却极其有力的精神支撑。
评分这本书的结构设计简直是一场精妙的解构主义实验,它完全颠覆了我对传统传记体或个人回忆录的固有印象。作者似乎故意打破了线性时间的束缚,采用了碎片化、跳跃式的叙事,如同记忆的随机闪回,时而聚焦于一个决定性的童年瞬间,时而又跳转到数十年后的一个午后独白。这种非线性的组织方式,非但没有造成阅读障碍,反而极大地增强了情感的冲击力。每一次视角的切换,都像是在拼凑一幅逐渐清晰却又充满隐喻的马赛克。我感觉自己不是在“阅读”一个故事,而是在“体验”一种意识流,跟着作者的思绪在不同的时空节点间穿梭、碰撞。这种高难度的叙事技巧,对读者的专注度和理解力提出了不小的要求,但一旦沉浸其中,那种发现隐藏线索、重建完整意义的乐趣,是其他平铺直叙的作品无法比拟的。整本书读下来,更像是一次深入潜意识的田野调查,充满了智识上的刺激和审美上的愉悦。
评分这部作品的叙事手法真是令人耳目一新,作者仿佛是一位经验丰富的老友,坐在壁炉旁,用一种既亲密又充满洞察力的口吻,娓娓道来那些在时间洪流中被悄然搁置的生命议题。文字的肌理非常细腻,没有那种刻意煽情的痕迹,反而是在最平淡的日常对话中,暗藏着对存在本质的深刻叩问。我特别欣赏她对内心挣扎的描摹,那种“求而不得”的失落感,不是外放的哀嚎,而是像冬日里缓慢凝结的霜花,无声却冰冷地覆盖在每一个细微的决定之上。阅读过程中,我不断地在角色的处境中看到自己的影子,那种被社会预期与个人渴望拉扯的张力,被描绘得淋漓尽致。她没有提供廉价的答案或快速的治愈,而是选择了一种更为复杂、更贴近真实人生的处理方式——那就是接受不完美,并在不完美中寻找继续前行的微光。这种坦诚和勇气,在当今许多追求完美叙事的作品中,显得尤为珍贵和难得,让人读完后久久无法平静,需要时间去消化其中蕴含的重量。
评分总而言之,这本书的重量和厚度是需要时间来消化的。它不是那种能让你在周末一口气读完,然后就将其束之高阁的消遣读物,而更像是一面镜子,一个知识分子朋友的私人函件,你需要时不时地停下来,反思自己对“时间”和“选择”的理解。它成功地将一个看似私密的个人叙事,提升到了具有普遍意义的哲学思辨层面,探讨了现代女性在自我定义过程中所面对的结构性困境,但这一切都是在一种极其克制、内敛的叙事基调下完成的。阅读的体验是深刻且令人不安的,因为它精准地触碰到了很多被我们刻意忽略的生命痛点。我强烈推荐给那些厌倦了表面功夫,渴望真正深入人性的复杂肌理的读者。
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