Name: Dear Life
ISBN: 9780307596888

作者: Alice Munro
出版社: Knopf
副标题: Stories
出版年: 2012-11-13
页数: 336
定价: USD 26.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307596888

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A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

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A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is forever altered by a chance encounter or an action not taken, or by a simple twist of fate that turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into a new way of being or thinking. A poet, finding herself in alien territory at her first literary party, is rescued by a seasoned newspaper columnist, and is soon hurtling across the continent, young child in tow, toward a hoped-for but completely unplanned meeting. A young soldier, returning to his fiancée from the Second World War, steps off the train before his stop and onto the farm of another woman, beginning a life on the move. A wealthy young woman having an affair with the married lawyer hired by her father to handle his estate comes up with a surprising way to deal with the blackmailer who finds them out.

While most of these stories take place in Munro’s home territory—the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron—the characters sometimes venture to the cities, and the book ends with four pieces set in the area where she grew up, and in the time of her own childhood: stories “autobiographical in feeling, though not, sometimes, entirely so in fact.” A girl who can’t sleep imagines night after wakeful night that she kills her beloved younger sister. A mother snatches up her child and runs for dear life when a crazy woman comes into her yard.

Suffused with Munro’s clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these tales about departures and beginnings, accidents and dangers, and outgoings and homecomings both imagined and real, paint a radiant, indelible portrait of how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.

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作者简介 · · · · · ·

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published eleven previous books.During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the W.H. Smith Prize, the National Book Circle Critics Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Lannan Literary Award, the Commonw...

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To Reach Japan
Amundsen
Leaving Maverley
Gravel
Haven
Pride
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无论发生什么都欣然接受。一切都是礼物。我们给予，我们接受。 (查看原文)

Louuu 2 回复 15赞 2014-07-11 15:16:36

—— 引自第88页
从火车上跳下来应该意味着某种取消。让身体振奋起来，让膝盖做好准备，进入一团不同的空气之中。你期待着虚无。但却得到了什么？立刻被一堆新事物包围，要求你的关注，而你坐在火车上看着车窗外时是不会这样的。你在这里做什么？你要到哪里去？某种被未知的东西监视的感觉。成为干扰分子的感觉。周围的生命正在从你看不见的有利位置得出关于你的结论。 (查看原文)

停云 8赞 2014-07-14 18:07:08

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苏更生 2014-06-25 20:14:43 北京十月文艺出版社2014版

亲爱的，去生活

我一直思考乔布斯和楼下保安小哥的生命谁更有意义？要是比名气于财富，当然乔布斯胜出。但这仅仅是名利，不能说明他的生命更有意义。要说乔布斯改变的人类的生活方式，可是要是我家楼下保安决意实行宵禁，晚上十二点以后关上大门，那我就得睡在马路上。这时我可不在意兜里揣的... (展开)

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木鸡腿 2014-09-02 13:41:55 北京十月文艺出版社2014版

亲爱的门罗

和朋友逛书店，看见有拆封的《亲爱的生活》，就抽出来把第一个故事《漂流到日本》看完了。然后，就像以往读门罗一样，没过两三天，这个故事讲了什么、主人公叫什么名字，我就给忘得一干二净，完全不记得了。之前读完《公开的秘密》后，我写下的短评是“好是好，可是每篇故事... (展开)

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参观票 2015-02-03 15:56:58 Vintage2013版

评：Leaving Maverley (离开马弗里)

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故事以一件非常普通的小事开头，在Maverley 这个地方的电影院，结婚半年的女检票员因为怀孕了要辞职，电影院的老板兼放映员虽然本可以预料到，但又有些不高兴，因为 “…he so disliked change and the idea of people having private lives that he was taken by surprise.”... (展开)

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