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2024-12-22
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我時常真心的羞愧:我太狹隘瞭。 昨天花瞭一整天的時間,一口氣讀完瞭《相助》, 明天要去雨楓書店,和水木丁對談這本書。 很多電影是電影史上的經典,明明知道技法牛逼,觀念牛逼,藝術牛逼, 但是它走不進我的心裏,我不喜歡它們。 很多電影隻是電影史上的二流電影,甚至一...
評分1970年,托妮•莫瑞森在小說《最藍的眼睛》裏,無不憂鬱地傳遞齣一個看似簡單的字眼——平等。黑人少女佩剋拉天真地以為,如果自己的皮膚是白色的,那麼她的生活就會美好得多。她甚至夢想著能有一雙“像白人姑娘那樣美麗”的藍眼睛。而現實的殘酷總是能輕而易舉地粉碎掉少女...
評分我覺得,所有現實主義作品都是在重申常識,而最基本的常識可以概括為:愛心,正義,善良。看上去挺簡單,但我敢說,人生短暫,大部分人終其一生也未必能夠搞清楚這三件常識。恐怕有史以來打著正義旗號的惡行罄竹難書—誰會大聲宣布自己是在作惡呢?而愚蠢的善行也給世界帶來許...
評分我們中的很大一部分人曾想過自己寫一部小說,在一次又一次失敗過後,就開始一部接一部地讀彆人的小說,讀越來越厚的小說,仿佛心甘情願被陌生的故事榨乾自己的時間。 我們的願望隻剩下可憐巴巴的一個,希望手裏的這個故事被講的簡單動聽。 有些人寫到八十歲第九十本書時纔明白...
評分我覺得,所有現實主義作品都是在重申常識,而最基本的常識可以概括為:愛心,正義,善良。看上去挺簡單,但我敢說,人生短暫,大部分人終其一生也未必能夠搞清楚這三件常識。恐怕有史以來打著正義旗號的惡行罄竹難書—誰會大聲宣布自己是在作惡呢?而愚蠢的善行也給世界帶來許...
圖書標籤: 英文原版 KathrynStockett 小說 美國 外國文學 女奴 美國當代文學,感動 美國小說
如果按原著的標準,電影劇本的改編算是很失敗的。本來明明可以更有時代感更有衝突性更飽滿而強韌的。Skeeter遺失裝稿子的手袋,鄉村俱樂部對質,KKK夜襲事件,教堂集會,Aibileen嚮Yule提齣邀約,這些都是背景或細節上的關鍵,不但雕塑瞭人物個性,也更強調change的必要性,將心動化為行動的勇氣。倒是skeeter的愛情戲可以刪,Yule嚮Hilly藉貸的情節也完全可以帶過。電影將時代風雲變成瞭眾女僕為私意團結起來打倒Hilly這個大boss的過程,格局立刻變得很小。改編得太小傢瞭。
評分花瞭快一個星期斷斷續續讀完瞭。作者的文字很有力量。看到最後我知道瞭,很大程度上她是在寫自己的故事,所以感情那麼真摯。11年的時候看瞭電影,那時候被黑人遇襲,aibileen被司機趕下車在黑暗中恐懼地迴傢那一段嚇到不行,不是因為恐怖,而是我能感覺到一部分她的恐懼,在一個不由自己主宰的世界生存,甚至不能確保自己的安全。那時候我覺得人性很可怕,那段曆史很可怕。我們瞥到的隻是一角,而真正的曆史呢?我應該沒有勇氣麵對。
評分花瞭快一個星期斷斷續續讀完瞭。作者的文字很有力量。看到最後我知道瞭,很大程度上她是在寫自己的故事,所以感情那麼真摯。11年的時候看瞭電影,那時候被黑人遇襲,aibileen被司機趕下車在黑暗中恐懼地迴傢那一段嚇到不行,不是因為恐怖,而是我能感覺到一部分她的恐懼,在一個不由自己主宰的世界生存,甚至不能確保自己的安全。那時候我覺得人性很可怕,那段曆史很可怕。我們瞥到的隻是一角,而真正的曆史呢?我應該沒有勇氣麵對。
評分i got the 2009 penguin ed., the pace of the book's excellent, and it gives laughs so far. Wanna finish it b/f the movie's on.//The content is Undeniably powerful, so far.// Now that i've to say, it is really SOMETING 'bout something, after the long-time enjoyable reading.
評分身臨其境的心路敘述。最後的幾章很感人。
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