With the succinct stories that have become her signature, Maile Meloy has graced literary publications from The New Yorker to The Paris Review and Best New American Voices. Her first published story collection, Half in Love, promises to bring Meloy's acclaimed vignettes to an even wider audience.
发表于2025-01-22
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
历时一周,用碎片化的时间读完了《两全其美》,这是我第一次读短片小说集,怎么说呢,感慨颇深。 全书共讲述了十一个故事,这十一个故事都是独立的,每个故事都很平淡,但每个故事读完后都有一种意犹未尽的感觉。无论是是那个情窦初开的少女,百般失落的老人,暗恋那个女孩的农...
评分一个来自偏远农场的年轻人,偶遇一名法学院毕业的女生。他羞涩地邀她骑马,感受背后的她“嵌进他的身体,仿佛一块缺失已久的拼图”;一个年轻的父亲打开门,发现自己死去的祖母站在台阶上;两个女人在纷飞的大雪中权衡着爱情和背叛;此外,还有一位失落的老人、一个嫉妒的父亲...
评分 评分 评分作者笔下的人观察力敏锐。可必须要交谈的时候,他们像是潜水钟,无法准确地,或者因为这样那样的顾虑,无法完全地表达出自己的看法。是懦弱呀,喉咙紧着,心跳快了,说着别的话搪塞过去了,心里不断不断地自责着。 Meloy 的描写往往避开人物本身:她写他们眼里看到的景与物。而...
图书标签: 美国 小说 短篇 女性 外国文学 短篇小说 Fiction 英美
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade.
Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars. Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship. A ranch hand falls for a recent law school graduate who appears unexpectedly— and reluctantly—in his remote Montana town. A young father opens his door to find his dead grandmother standing on the front step. Two women weigh love and betrayal during an early snow. Throughout the book, Meloy examines the tensions between having and wanting, as her characters try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: innocence and experience, risk and stability, fidelity and desire.
Knowing, sly, and bittersweet, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy’s singular literary talent. Her lean, controlled prose, full of insight and unexpected poignancy, is the perfect complement to her powerfully moving storytelling.
I just cannot bring myself to give a shit about the characters... no connection whatsoever... 好像能感受到作者想走的文风方向,但最后结果文笔过于平淡。听的有声书,narrator们非常好,算是个亮点
评分The first story alone makes this a masterpiece. The first time I read about Montana in a literary work and it is absolutely soul crashing.
评分读完整本,我不禁开始怀疑对开篇的喜欢是不是因为经过了影像的熏陶?显然电影对<Travis, B.>的改编拿捏得非常棒,无论是整体悄无声息的风格,空旷平凡中涌动的情绪,故事的简单与内心的波澜反差,以及女主衣着、吃饭模样的细节刻画,都做到了影像与文本同样出色(也许正是文本的简练给了影像发挥的空间),当然了把男孩子换成女孩子更是电影的神来之笔。不过越往后读惊喜越少,第二和第三篇还算挺喜欢,再后面出轨主题重复的有点多,有几篇场景集中在室内对话显得短而狭窄。感觉下来确实她的书还是比较适合影像化的。
评分读完一段时间 还是对第一个故事印象最深刻
评分I just cannot bring myself to give a shit about the characters... no connection whatsoever... 好像能感受到作者想走的文风方向,但最后结果文笔过于平淡。听的有声书,narrator们非常好,算是个亮点
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书