In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent in the world of politics and money, finds his life altered by the rising fortunes of this glamorous family. His two vividly contrasting love affairs, one with a young black clerk and one with a Lebanese millionaire, dramatize the dangers and rewards of his own private pursuit of beauty, a pursuit as compelling to Nick as the desire for power and riches among his friends. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, this U.K. bestseller is a major work by one of our finest writers.
作者简介
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Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.
Alan Hollinghurst is an English novelist, and winner of the 2004 Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.
He read English at Magdalen College, Oxford graduating in 1975; and subsequently took the further degree of Master of Literature (1979). While at Oxford he shared a house with Andrew Motion, and was awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1974, the year before Motion.
In the late 1970s he became a lecturer at Magdalen, and then at Somerville College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1981 he moved on to lecture at University College London. In 1997, he went on an Asia book tour in Singapore.
In 1981 he joined The Times Literary Supplement and was the paper's deputy editor from 1982 to 1995.
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0 有用 windx 2022-10-08 22:13:32 上海
现代版Brideshead 。结尾阿拉伯情人遗赠他一条街，还是很鼓舞人心的
1 有用 睿利士 2008-01-22 22:42:43
A bit dry for my taste.
1 有用 ader 2012-11-02 15:22:08
我真的很喜欢他，边读边想起Henry James，绝对值得一读的好书。
1 有用 倏逝波 2013-12-31 15:55:06
好毒辣的腐国大叔，感觉此人照片也是很犀利的！
0 有用 妈宝狗的妈宝妈 2009-12-05 16:28:19
其实我看所有原文书都有一个毛病：我不确切我看懂了没。这部属于比较难啃的，讽刺政治弊病的部分完全云里雾里，同性恋情又模模糊糊。Anyway，还是推荐一个，总会有人看得懂~
0 有用 柠汁三文鱼 2024-03-11 00:59:53 四川
语言很古典优雅，的确是受了很多Henry James的影响，大量抽象名词来形容微妙的心境。重要情节几乎都在幕后发生，笔墨则放在细腻的环境和心理描写上，这也非常James。一个信奉美的主人公，太过看重感官的、表面的美，并且为之赋予抽象价值，但最终他认为美的人事物内在都是冷漠、丑陋，带来了毁灭。让人难受的一点在于，主人公几乎从头到尾都无法引起我的太多同情，作者的腔调始终是疏离的，让读者从高处俯视着一切... 语言很古典优雅，的确是受了很多Henry James的影响，大量抽象名词来形容微妙的心境。重要情节几乎都在幕后发生，笔墨则放在细腻的环境和心理描写上，这也非常James。一个信奉美的主人公，太过看重感官的、表面的美，并且为之赋予抽象价值，但最终他认为美的人事物内在都是冷漠、丑陋，带来了毁灭。让人难受的一点在于，主人公几乎从头到尾都无法引起我的太多同情，作者的腔调始终是疏离的，让读者从高处俯视着一切，从一开始就看能看清叙事人的处境，看清他的自欺欺人和周围人的虚伪——因为作者将这些点展现得明明白白，你会不自觉为叙事人一步步深陷其中而抓狂。鉴于我也算是一个信奉美的人，我跟叙事人之间的不合多少有点像是同一个宗教下两个教派在打架…… (展开)
0 有用 逢澶Ty 2023-07-08 14:54:27 加拿大
Hinge的match推荐的，带着点私心让这本经典插了队。本以为这本厚厚的书得读上个几个月，结果对抗妈妈来旅游coping mechanism 两周不到读完了…不得不说文字美真得读的赏心悦目。相当“老钱”，政治讽刺也写得极好，得Booker奖还是有道理的。情色描写只是点睛之笔，就感觉写得非常的高级。第二部分法国度假的几章写得实在是太好了，这势头如同当时Feddens的上升路的政治生涯交相呼应，不得... Hinge的match推荐的，带着点私心让这本经典插了队。本以为这本厚厚的书得读上个几个月，结果对抗妈妈来旅游coping mechanism 两周不到读完了…不得不说文字美真得读的赏心悦目。相当“老钱”，政治讽刺也写得极好，得Booker奖还是有道理的。情色描写只是点睛之笔，就感觉写得非常的高级。第二部分法国度假的几章写得实在是太好了，这势头如同当时Feddens的上升路的政治生涯交相呼应，不得不服。 也不得不说作者行文实在是太厉害，写得漂亮又易读，还总有小心机逗人一笑，甚至是最暗淡衰颓的第三部分。得看看BBC的剧改了。 (展开)
0 有用 alfay 2023-04-21 20:40:16 重庆
带着Henry James感的80年代brideshed revisited前半部故事，文字好美
0 有用 穆天宁 2023-03-14 17:01:54 上海
问“当代的严肃小说是否还有意义”这个问题，用二十、三十年前的布克奖和国家图书奖得主作为回答，总的来说还是大差不差。
0 有用 windx 2022-10-08 22:13:32 上海
现代版Brideshead 。结尾阿拉伯情人遗赠他一条街，还是很鼓舞人心的