Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from h...
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . .
The only way to survive is to open your heart.
作者简介
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Gail Honeyman is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine was short-listed for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress and is Honeyman’s debut novel. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. (p. 5)
She has overinflated ideas of her own administrative abilities, and in her spare time makes hideous jewelry, which she then sells to idiots. (p. 12)
Animals, birds and insects can provide such useful insights. If I’m ever unsure as to the correct course of action, I’ll think, “What would a ferret do?” or, “How would a salamander respond to this situation?” Invariably, I find the right answer. (p. 13)
I decided that I’d go for it. Yes, it was extravagant and indulgent, but why not? Life should be about trying new things, exploring boundaries, I reminded myself. (p. 20)
It was disappointing that I had allowed myself, even for a moment, to indulge in sentimentality. (p. 24)
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Why Gail Honeyman's debut 'Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine' has become so raved is not entirely unfathomable. I remember another fictional character - a grumpy suicidal old bastard named Ove who, in so many ways, resembles our protagonist here, being em...
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1 有用 alchemist S 2018-03-31 23:41:39
终于读完 Suicide那一段写得非常惊艳 I guess we all have the capacity to be completely fine
0 有用 树叶的叶 2018-01-14 10:26:17
R4 read by Tracy Wiles. 许久没读到这么好的书了
6 有用 雀半仙 2019-02-24 16:02:41
养猫是self help第一步
0 有用 🦅 2022-02-20 22:37:28
Not really comforts me to some extent.
1 有用 瑞尔 2018-05-26 12:14:26
Hard to believe this is a debut novel. Gail Honeyman is one to watch!