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.
A concoction of the quiet rebellion and the unconditional deference underneath the subdued and proper appearance. Extrordinary revelation of the seemingly trivial and ordinary country lives.
大家帮我看看语法错误(时态什么的...),然后因为这个剧情介绍是挺简化的版本,大家有什么不懂的地方也欢迎来问。这本书我读了七八遍的样子,所以还是可以跟大家讨论一下的 = = 同书中故事的顺序一致。 The four-part title story “The Love of a Good Woman”, which ...
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0 有用 豆友166915818 2021-06-05 13:52:47
艾丽丝门罗
0 有用 heyya 2017-02-21 22:36:16
她的短篇十分激烈,看完这本好久没缓过劲
0 有用 西瓜 2015-03-08 16:50:21
终于啃完了 好累 太浓缩了
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)
0 有用 ValkyV 2014-01-26 16:40:23
A concoction of the quiet rebellion and the unconditional deference underneath the subdued and proper appearance. Extrordinary revelation of the seemingly trivial and ordinary country lives.
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)
0 有用 豆友166915818 2021-06-05 13:52:47
艾丽丝门罗
0 有用 青青子衿 2021-05-15 23:14:54
我竟然忘掉了这本,Alice munro写得最好的小说集之一(虽然munro每本书都可以说写得excellent)
0 有用 Nana 2021-05-05 00:32:30
4.5 The Love of a Good Woman/The Children Stay/Before The Change/Save the Reaper/My Mother's Dream特別狠,簡直是用文字去折磨讀者
1 有用 Tlön 2021-01-19 05:41:19
最后一篇My Mother’s Dream,少见地让日常生活的刀锋浮出水面(门罗一般不会刻意折磨读者的感官)。如果要编一个“成为母亲”的课纲,可以列在其中。