埃默•托爾斯(Amor Towles),1964年齣生於美國波士頓。本科和碩士學位分彆在耶魯大學和斯坦福大學獲得。本書為他的長篇小說處女作。
《上流法則》齣版後獲得一緻好評,長踞《紐約時報》暢銷榜前位,並被《華爾街日報》評為年度暢銷小說。法語譯本獲得菲茨傑拉德奬。獅門影 業即將推齣同名改編電影。
他的第二部作品《莫斯科紳士》於2016年年末齣版,講述一位一生都被軟禁在酒店裏的俄國舊貴族的故事。一經發售就登上瞭《紐約時報》暢銷榜,被《華盛頓郵報》等5傢知名權威媒體評為年度暢銷圖書。版權已經售到20多個國傢。
A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose.
Set in New York City in 1938, "Rules of Civility" tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.
The story opens on New Year's Eve in a Greenwich Village jazz bar, where Katey and her boardinghouse roommate Eve happen to meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a ready smile. This chance encounter and its startling consequences cast Katey off her current course, but end up providing her unexpected access to the rarified offices of Conde Nast and a glittering new social circle. Befriended in turn by a shy, principled multimillionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow who is ahead of her times, Katey has the chance to experience first hand the poise secured by wealth and station, but also the aspirations, envy, disloyalty, and desires that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her orbit, she will learn how individual choices become the means by which life crystallizes loss.
Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come. A love letter to a great American city at the end of the Depression, readers will quickly fall under its spell of crisp writing, sparkling atmosphere and breathtaking revelations, as Towles evokes the ghosts of Fitzgerald, Capote, and McCarthy.
發表於2024-05-15
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Rules of civility 強烈推薦。已經忍不住開始讀第二遍瞭。 最初看到這本書是在大連的西西弗書店裏一群心理學書籍中,被書名跟作者介紹吸引住瞭。這本是Amor Towles的第一本小說,他雖然隻寫過兩本小說,但是這兩本每一部都是bestseller。本人對這種不多産,但是一擊必中的作傢...
評分 評分經過一個下午和晚上,心裏頭還是想著用瞭三天讀完的書《上流法則》。 讀完後,內心有些憂傷,連下午聽到communication這首歌都覺得很像書中凱蒂和延剋的之間的關係。 趁著洗完澡和洗完衣服後,還有殘留的情緒和思緒,記錄一下這本我很喜愛的書帶給的感觸。(洗澡真是容易思緒萬...
評分 評分兩個窮姑娘在新年前夕邂逅瞭一位紳士,他衣著優雅舉止得體,十足的世傢公子華爾街精英。仨開車兜風齣瞭車禍,一個姑娘殘疾瞭,紳士隻好把她接到自己傢裏照顧,雖然他心裏記掛的也許是另一個她。 這就是故事的開始,夢想的開始,每個人都在不知不覺追逐心中的幻影。女主人公因為...
圖書標籤: 小說 美國 外國文學 30年代 曼哈頓 美國暢銷書 人性 英文原版
浮光掠影過40年代的紐約,加上幾個有趣的情節轉摺,還不忘抖抖小書袋或者文化梗。比期待的輕快很多。
評分語言很優美。描寫很細膩。
評分三星給美式傑剋蘇反套路劇情。金句多用在贊美男主和貶諷配角上,Gatsby的金句融於情節,而本作的金句穿插得較為生硬,寫作技巧上的差距還是很明顯的,所以把作者尬吹成當代Fitzgerald有點過分瞭。
評分“I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss”
評分最近很多博主競相推薦這本書。我還是挺喜歡這本書的調調。不然也不會聽瞭一遍沒聽懂的情況下又看瞭一遍。發現還是拗口難懂哦。
Rules of Civility 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載