Jennifer Egan’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
发表于2025-03-22
A Visit from the Goon Squad 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
初读《时间里的痴人》,最让人印象深刻的就是它的结构了。乍看之下,这是一部由十三篇相对独立的小说组成的短篇集,但是与同样以音乐和音乐人为主题的短篇集——如石黑一雄的《小夜曲:音乐与黄昏五故事集》——不同,《时间里的痴人》中的十三个短篇实则是隶属于整个故事的十...
评分 评分刊于《新京报》) 珍妮弗·伊根的小说《恶棍来访》由13个相对独立、又互有关联的章节组成,像古早磁带般分为A与B两部分——“A到B”也是书中乐手博斯克的专辑名,或按前乐队贝斯手、后成为唱片经纪的本尼的解释,“A是指我俩在乐队里、追同一个女孩的时候。B就是现在。”(P1...
评分初读《时间里的痴人》,最让人印象深刻的就是它的结构了。乍看之下,这是一部由十三篇相对独立的小说组成的短篇集,但是与同样以音乐和音乐人为主题的短篇集——如石黑一雄的《小夜曲:音乐与黄昏五故事集》——不同,《时间里的痴人》中的十三个短篇实则是隶属于整个故事的十...
评分本人较早看过该书原版,也忝列译者这一行列,自知对其尚有发言权。看了这段译文后,觉得译者译得已算相当不错,而且对原文语体的把握,也算很贴切了。 当然其中也有误,从各种状况分析,有的是译错(从本人的经验来看,被动语态的译错,简单字的译错,简单句型的译...
图书标签: 小说 美国文学 普利策 Pulitzer 美国国家书评奖 英文原版 2010纽约时报十大好书 2010
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life—divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house—and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang—who thrived and who faltered—and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
time is a goon.时间是条恶棍
评分神书一本…我甚至都推荐给邓同学了
评分神书一本…我甚至都推荐给邓同学了
评分最后一章伪Scifi略难下咽外都不错。Tag line: Time is a goon. 一群人,内心戏,和时光如何改变了他们。这些人都不太快乐,都或多或少fucked up,都略有些nutcase的潜质。最喜欢slides形式的那一章,格外动人。
评分这本书的结构非常有意思,A, B讲不同时代的故事。故事本身一个个也各有千秋,那么多的人物全面铺开,详细写道,不容易。
A Visit from the Goon Squad 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书