In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summe...
In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.
Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped: a young girl finds in the course of an evening that the mother she adores, and whose fluttery sexuality she hopes to emulate, will not sustain her--she must count on herself.
Some choices are made--in a will, in a decision to leave home--with irrevocable and surprising consequences. At other times disaster is courted or barely skirted: when a mother has a startling dream about her baby; when a woman, driving her grandchildren to visit the lakeside haunts of her youth, starts a game that could have dangerous consequences. The rich layering that gives Alice Munro's work so strong a sense of life is particularly apparent in the title story, in which the death of a local optometrist brings an entire town into focus--from the preadolescent boys who find his body, to the man who probably killed him, to the woman who must decide what to do about what she might know. Large, moving, profound--these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.
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艾丽丝·门罗 作者
樱桃小独角
译林出版社2013版
神仙鱼
译林出版社2013版
新经典
北京十月文艺出版社2024版
余生皆假期
译林出版社2013版
贺彬
译林出版社2013版
小菠萝猫侦探
译林出版社2013版
NineAu
译林出版社2013版
0 有用 卷毛yume🌈 2024-01-03 23:34:59 江苏
感觉门罗这本的故事性很强，反而失却了她一贯的埋在文字下面的那种暗流涌动，而且有几篇都可以预料到她会怎么写角色的结局和感受（当然，也可能是我读她太多了🤔.... ）。最喜欢的一篇是save the reaper，感觉其余几篇看不出门罗的写作功力（应该是我评分最低的一本门罗........
0 有用 Stardust 2019-10-12 21:58:11
The first step in a long, dreadful journey. But everything for a long way had gone quite.
0 有用 艾米粒 2015-10-03 10:12:35
100种女人就有100种活法啊，这本里的还是沉重的多一些
0 有用 拉维克 2022-06-01 15:08:51
《诗经》里有《桃夭》，桃花，桃实，桃叶比喻女子婚后人生。门罗这个集子以八个故事道尽女人一生的各个阶段：情动(《好女之爱》)，新婚(《科提斯岛》)，育儿(《吾母之梦》)，决裂(《变化以前》)，别家(《孩子们留下》)，母女疏远(《除了收割者》)，母女和解(《铜臭》)，暮年长相思(《雅加达》)。门罗写母女亲情纠葛令人想起《追忆》里夏尔吕点评塞维涅夫人对女儿的激情。六十几岁的门罗大概处于一个比较愉快的人生... 《诗经》里有《桃夭》，桃花，桃实，桃叶比喻女子婚后人生。门罗这个集子以八个故事道尽女人一生的各个阶段：情动(《好女之爱》)，新婚(《科提斯岛》)，育儿(《吾母之梦》)，决裂(《变化以前》)，别家(《孩子们留下》)，母女疏远(《除了收割者》)，母女和解(《铜臭》)，暮年长相思(《雅加达》)。门罗写母女亲情纠葛令人想起《追忆》里夏尔吕点评塞维涅夫人对女儿的激情。六十几岁的门罗大概处于一个比较愉快的人生阶段，《公开的秘密》和《好女之爱》基本都是有惊无险，趣味也颇为中产，比如这个集子里的人物不是度假，就是在度假路上，时间设定几乎都是夏天，刊在《纽约客》上当然是最好的纯文学消遣。但是门罗当然不会这么简单：激烈性爱，烧伤，堕胎，狂野性梦，孕体变化，中正雅健的笔触底下抽丝剥茧，露出血肉淋漓的人生真相。 (展开)
2 有用 黄小米 2014-12-09 02:53:29
就在我對偷情的少妻之類的厭倦時，被結尾兩篇凄厲的墮胎和小孩吵鬧段落驚醒