Gus Van Sant goes from auteur to author in an brilliant, inventive, and endlessly entertaining first novel that reads like a Warholian mix of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins.
In the town of Sasquatch, Oregon, Spunky Davis, middle-aged maker of infomercials, is trying to find his next assignment, finish the screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory, and deal with th...
Gus Van Sant goes from auteur to author in an brilliant, inventive, and endlessly entertaining first novel that reads like a Warholian mix of Kurt Vonnegut and Tom Robbins.
In the town of Sasquatch, Oregon, Spunky Davis, middle-aged maker of infomercials, is trying to find his next assignment, finish the screenplay that he hopes will bring him Hollywood glory, and deal with the death of his friend and favorite infomercial presenter, teen idol Felix Arroyo. Enter two young aspiring filmmakers, Jack and Matt, whom Spunky finds strangely familiar--especially as Jack bears an uncanny resemblance to the late Felix. But Jack and Matt are not what they appear to be; they are messengers from a dimension beyond time known as Pink, and they invite Spunky to join them on their voyage of transcendence and recovery.
Using a delirious array of voices signified by different typefaces, a flip cartoon that animates the novel's action, footnotes and line drawings, Gus Van Sant turns the novel into an explosively visual experience, a captivating combination of texture and text. As original and involving as any of Van Sant's films, Pink is both a hip, comic deconstruction of our image-obsessed culture and a genuinely tender story on the classic themes of love, time, and loss.
When he died I found myself searching for a way to make sense of it.So I tried thinking like this ...Suppose Felix and I attend a party together and Felix begins talking to a girl in one corner of the room while I strike up a conversation with some old friends in another corner about a new CPR Land bill that is trying to pass through Congress.Felix seems to be having a good time talking to this girl.He walks over to me and whispers in my ear that he is going to leave with the girl and will see me later.I stay at the party,I don't panic or anything,because I will see Felix later,I wasn't talking with him anyway,I am with my old friends talking about food production.I will see him the next day,or maybe the next week,but I am going to stick around the party until whenever it is that I decide ... (查看原文)
Laughed and cried but irrevocably lost in the dark loop that continues without an end. Recommend to anyone who loves River Phoenix as if he's never died.
4 有用 Karasu 2012-04-13 06:33:05
Laughed and cried but irrevocably lost in the dark loop that continues without an end. Recommend to anyone who loves River Phoenix as if he's never died.
1 有用 丁小美∣种草机 2018-09-12 20:32:13
看完流行小说来看这本~ 这算当代意识流么……对读者不够友好可能是基于故事性来讲吧，习惯人的纷繁思绪那大概会觉得这种行文就还还能接受，虽然有点话痨吧我甚至怀疑作者是不是飞大了但你们好好想想话痨其实挺可爱的 ~
1 有用 sereneloafer 2013-11-04 22:09:09
It's been good to sea you. May you live for river.
0 有用 DianWow 2013-04-07 02:51:33
wtf
1 有用 RioLiv 2017-05-06 01:12:33
感觉对读者不是特别友善，嗯，不过总有一些部分能够触动到我…Felix Arroyo...