作者:
Jeanette Winterson
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[英] 珍妮特·温特森 出版社: Grove Press 原作名: Why be Happy when You Could be Normal 出版年: 2012-6 页数: 224 定价: USD 25.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780802120106
[Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with r...
[Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with risk, dark mirth, and hard-won self-knowledge. —Parul Sehgal
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?的创作者
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I read this book not only because one of my closest friends recommend it to me,but because when I glanced at the first pages,expecially when I read out loud,I burst into tears,which I myself find in...I read this book not only because one of my closest friends recommend it to me,but because when I glanced at the first pages,expecially when I read out loud,I burst into tears,which I myself find incredible.Finally,I finished it in two days.I am really impressed and it is really touching.While I was reading the novel,I was full of tears.(展开)
I always like JW’s writing. When this book came out in 2011, I ordered it but did not read it immediately. I thought that it was the fact-version of Oranges are not the only fruit. The online bookstore introduces the book this way: "Heartbreaking and funn...
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"Adopted Children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb. "The baby explodes into an unkn...
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0 有用 pan 2019-09-27 10:37:44
真好,Jeannette最后回家了。
3 有用 蛋壳计划 2014-11-11 19:54:44
I read this book not only because one of my closest friends recommend it to me,but because when I glanced at the first pages,expecially when I read out loud,I burst into tears,which I myself find in... I read this book not only because one of my closest friends recommend it to me,but because when I glanced at the first pages,expecially when I read out loud,I burst into tears,which I myself find incredible.Finally,I finished it in two days.I am really impressed and it is really touching.While I was reading the novel,I was full of tears. (展开)
2 有用 Hey Juju 2015-08-26 09:48:20
本来是个挺感人的故事,读到后面有些不耐烦,不耐烦作者病态的自怜情绪。整本书就像在宣告“快看我有多可怜”。
4 有用 Miss Gynt 2019-05-08 23:39:54
贴心贴肺的好 "literature is not a hiding place,it's a finding place"
2 有用 bieguni 2016-04-27 19:14:02
A long introduction into Jeanette winterson.