On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "l...
On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue." The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife.Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons
9月15日，星期五，上午11点，我在纽约Penn Station火车站等同事，顺便溜达进出口处的书店，顺手拿起一本书来翻看。书的名字叫The Lovely Bones，似乎在豆瓣还是哪里见过介绍的，一直没有翻过。"I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."(1973年12月6日，我被...
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外面在下雨，黑黑的夜无边，时而有路灯光从窗外洒落进车窗，冰凉地铺洒到手中的书上。 纸惨白。 故事惨白。 火车奔腾在默默长夜中，我心底飘过几声叹息，有泪水为苏西哭泣。 “1973年12月6日，我被谋杀时才十四岁……” 这是故事的开头，这句I was fourteen when I was murder...
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艾丽斯·西伯德 作者
老郑卖茶🌈
作家出版社2004版
blue_star
Back Bay Books2004版
当归莳子
南海出版公司2010版
0 有用 素颜，才真实 2009-10-06 11:31:09
女孩死后的独白，也的很惬意，很成长！
0 有用 The+Escapist 2011-01-09 14:47:53
大陆引进版的到处都买不到··· ···只好买英文原版的~因为太爱了！虽然我的英文不咋滴~但是看小说还是没问题的~速度比不上看中文快，不过慢慢看好了。
0 有用 小鱼 2010-02-02 10:14:09
非常好看，而且电影的版本也很好看。
0 有用 安静的美男子 2012-02-12 00:24:39
我就是觉得那杀人的大叔挺变态的！！！！！！！！
0 有用 Dystopia 2006-05-07 11:05:51
Heart-warming!
0 有用 腰酸背疼卡西嘉 2013-01-10 23:16:28
纽约时报榜单上的书简直不能看
0 有用 安静的美男子 2012-02-12 00:24:39
我就是觉得那杀人的大叔挺变态的！！！！！！！！
0 有用 The+Escapist 2011-01-09 14:47:53
大陆引进版的到处都买不到··· ···只好买英文原版的~因为太爱了！虽然我的英文不咋滴~但是看小说还是没问题的~速度比不上看中文快，不过慢慢看好了。
0 有用 貝拉Bells 2010-12-05 04:45:44
非常喜欢在图书馆工作的那个男生，很贴心的打电话给我说预留的书到了。
0 有用 路人贾 2010-11-11 11:58:48
魂与体不同亡。