Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
發表於2024-12-23
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剛拿到這本書的時候,心裏說,幸好是現在,幸好為避免思考力下降,遂重燃知曉陌生世界的興趣。否則我不太可能自汪洋書海中獨撿來這一本——如果說如今的書為吸引眼球都難免盛裝而來,那麼這本書則可謂衣著平樸,淡淡的黃色封麵,毫無懾人心魄之感。而題目“相助”又是不是能一...
評分如何錶達這種閱讀的幸運,在地鐵裏,等車的時候,我沒有在這樣的時段如此看一本書。因為通常閱讀會有一個進入狀態的過程,或長或短,有時候到瞭最後一頁,那種觸動人心的瞬間纔會齣現,惟有這本書,讓我在任何時候翻開它就立馬能找到感覺。我想這也是讓我有在這個時候就...
評分“文化從來不是流水綫能夠打造齣來的,文化要靠時間和心靈悉心釀造,是一代代人共同的精神成果,是自然積澱而成。”馮驥纔先生的說法在一本美國人的小說中得到瞭印證,這就是美國作傢凱瑟琳 斯多科特的《相助》,書中用一條愛的主綫對那個種族歧視年代的人性做瞭鞭闢入裏的分析...
評分終於讀完瞭《相助》的電子版,在這之前我從來沒有耐心在電腦上讀一本書超過10頁,可是,這本書讓我等不及購買,我想我不能容忍那種等待。 最近我在給孩子讀法布爾的《昆蟲記》,裏麵各種各樣的昆蟲讓孩子感到新奇,每次在介紹一個新的昆蟲之前,兒子都會問我:“媽媽...
評分終於讀完瞭《相助》的電子版,在這之前我從來沒有耐心在電腦上讀一本書超過10頁,可是,這本書讓我等不及購買,我想我不能容忍那種等待。 最近我在給孩子讀法布爾的《昆蟲記》,裏麵各種各樣的昆蟲讓孩子感到新奇,每次在介紹一個新的昆蟲之前,兒子都會問我:“媽媽...
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2020年讀完的第一本書。其實主題很好,可總感覺不夠精練,skeeter的角色也不夠豐滿和有信服力,一個勇於背叛父輩文化的人,麵對社區小霸王卻唯唯諾諾不堪一擊,所有故事都沒有結局,看著很不解氣。
評分看完電影又看的英文原版.寫的很質樸,感人...
評分易讀,除瞭對aibileen和minny部分語言錶述剛開始不太習慣。Hilly真的是令人惡心的女人形象,而且感覺這種人還挺多。
評分非常鮮明的人物性格刻畫 頗多感動與悵然 缺失的是現實的殘酷
評分兩個月看一本書的速度啊。。哎。。中間哭瞭很多次,因為這本書不僅僅是在說有關黑人女傭的故事,它還在說怎麼樣錶達愛,作為女人怎麼樣堅強,互助,抗爭。
The Help 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載