Justin Torres's debut novel centers around three brothers who grow up in a world of imagination, neglect, and pain in an undisclosed upstate New York town. They fancy themselves alternately as the Three Musketeers; the Three Bears; the Three Stooges; Alvin and the Chipmunks; Frankenstein, the bride of Frankenstein, and the baby of Frankenstein; and even the Father, Son, and Hol...
Justin Torres's debut novel centers around three brothers who grow up in a world of imagination, neglect, and pain in an undisclosed upstate New York town. They fancy themselves alternately as the Three Musketeers; the Three Bears; the Three Stooges; Alvin and the Chipmunks; Frankenstein, the bride of Frankenstein, and the baby of Frankenstein; and even the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Children of a Puerto Rican father and white mother in a town populated by poor whites warned to avoid race mixing, these brothers are "half-breeds" with overworked, absent parents who rarely manage to provide the basics of food, safety, or companionship. Early on, the brothers learn to be wary of their father's rage and their mother's confusion, creating their own wild ways to play.
Later still, they'll realize that those boys are actually nothing like them at all. Who knows this mutt life, this race mixing? who knows Paps? All these other boys, the white trash out here, they have legacies, decades upon decades of poverty and violence and bloodlines they can trace like a scar; and these are their creeks, their hills, their goodness. Their grandfathers poured the cement of this loading dock. And downstate, in Brooklyn, the Puerto Ricans have language, they have language." (查看原文)
And when our Paps came home, we got spankings. Our little round butt cheeks were tore up: red, raw, leather-whipped. We knew there was something on the other side of pain, on the other side of the sting. Prickly heat radiated upward from our thighs and backsides, fire consumed our brains, but we knew that there was something more, someplace our Paps was taking us with all this. We knew, because he was meticulous, because he was precise, because he took his time. He was awakening us; he was leading us somewhere beyond burning and ripping, and you couldn't get there in a hurry. (查看原文)
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上海文艺出版社2014版（其他版本）
iommi/佛界易入，魔界难进
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小布冲啊
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向花尋
上海文艺出版社2014版（其他版本）
0 有用 farrais🌈 2026-09-10 12:49:06 江苏
oh, i like it. ——no, i dont like it. ——im angry about it. ——just forget about it.
0 有用 贤洛野 2016-09-15 23:13:46
作者若是在个人成长史和家族史中更明确地选择一个重点，写一部中长篇，效果可能会比一堆潦草的小故事加上一段不自然的觉醒好很多。频繁出现的大段排比和矫情的比喻差点让我怀疑这是网络文学的产物。
0 有用 根斯巴克连续体 2025-04-24 11:41:28 广东
beautifully prosed 最后几章很有戏剧张力
0 有用 WooBaby 2012-12-04 20:45:57
somehow grotesque
0 有用 九命猫@victor-eyes 2013-03-23 18:12:48
看到最后一章才知道它居然是“一名同性恋的成长记”，而且跟我自己写的东西一个路子，即这本小说没什么情节，重点是场景、情绪和诗意。