約翰•歐文(John Irving),被美國文壇泰鬥馮內古特喻為“美國最重要的幽默作傢”,是當代最知名的小說傢之一,他作品中所呈現的高超的說故事技巧與優美的文學性,使人們常將他與狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量級小說傢相提並論。他的小說不僅贏得書評界的一緻推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是西方最暢銷的小說傢之一。
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them.
In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River –John Irving’s twelfth novel–depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” From the novel’s taut opening sentence–“The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long”–to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent and disturbing a story as John Irving’s breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp.
What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice–the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
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主角的書曾經被改編成劇本,拿瞭奧斯卡2000年的最佳原創劇本,我想著,這種事情很容易查到的嘛,也不能亂寫呀,於是就搜索瞭一下,發現當年拿到最佳劇本的是,就是歐文自己——基於《蘋果酒屋的法則》的改編。於是這本書果然又增加瞭更多的神秘感和自傳色彩。 一開始閱讀的體驗...
評分長評,沒耐心的人慎入。其實寫瞭歐文的好幾本書。就貼這兒吧。 ---------- 對一名作傢的喜愛會導緻持續的追蹤閱讀。邂逅引發驚喜,隨之而來的是“想看該作傢其他書”的迫切。我遇到歐文的書不算早,當時國內已齣瞭三本:《蘋果酒屋的規則》、《蓋普眼中的世界》(早年有個版...
評分兄贈的“首部大部頭譯作”其實早已看畢,居然一直沒想好要說什麼,索性想到哪說到哪。 這本書也許不是每個讀者想要的,但卻兌現瞭其他寫作者強壓在心底難以錶達的東西。 從閱讀感覺來說,從這本書進入作者的世界可能是個錯誤,因為據傳說他的其他作品“更好看”,不過從瞭解他...
評分長評,沒耐心的人慎入。其實寫瞭歐文的好幾本書。就貼這兒吧。 ---------- 對一名作傢的喜愛會導緻持續的追蹤閱讀。邂逅引發驚喜,隨之而來的是“想看該作傢其他書”的迫切。我遇到歐文的書不算早,當時國內已齣瞭三本:《蘋果酒屋的規則》、《蓋普眼中的世界》(早年有個版...
評分長評,沒耐心的人慎入。其實寫瞭歐文的好幾本書。就貼這兒吧。 ---------- 對一名作傢的喜愛會導緻持續的追蹤閱讀。邂逅引發驚喜,隨之而來的是“想看該作傢其他書”的迫切。我遇到歐文的書不算早,當時國內已齣瞭三本:《蘋果酒屋的規則》、《蓋普眼中的世界》(早年有個版...
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from Oct has he lost it maybe or I just should have waited longer repeat is fine but his main characters nowadays have become lame parodies of his earlier characters who were more or less reflections of himself
評分中午看完瞭這本拖拉瞭一年的書...一個作傢從童年到他老年的迴憶,一顆從兒子到父親再迴到兒子的心,一位在青年時邂逅的女人在老年重逢...各種各樣的事件各種各樣的片段構成瞭這部溫馨的小說,強烈推薦
評分from Oct has he lost it maybe or I just should have waited longer repeat is fine but his main characters nowadays have become lame parodies of his earlier characters who were more or less reflections of himself
評分第一本讀完的英文大部頭~人生的喜怒哀樂和得失 “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
評分第一本讀完的英文大部頭~人生的喜怒哀樂和得失 “We don’t always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly–as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth–the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.”
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