科蒂斯·希登费尔德,美国著名的才女型作家,一九七六年出生,十六岁时便在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年,她又赢得了《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛。她的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上,还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员,曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
看见6.8分的评价时,我彻底愤怒了,我一直听闻这本纽约十佳图书在中国并不让人熟知,我想,这只能归功于中国人一如既往的读书高龄化,而那些高龄的人们对于自己已经过去或者已经淡忘的差不多的青春是不会有任何共鸣的,我想那些在这个青春期成长的女生男生,都疯狂的痴迷着郭敬...
评分 评分读这本书就像在读自己,我和主角一样是好学校中的“凡人”。但是这些都不是阻挡我们追求幸福的借口。每个人都有理想,哪怕它大到令人咋舌,或小,我们都要有勇气去寻找和追求。
评分可能是因为翻译的不好 后面有点儿看不下去的感觉 但是之前还是挺引人入胜的 学生时代 外国青春校园小说 适合初高中的学生看吧 自卑的女主角 贵族同学 性格怪异的朋友 孤独寂寞 胡思乱想 为了达到目的有时候不择手段 与男主角奇特的感情故事,那么自然又那...
评分[English version] High school memories, or more precisely - high school feelings, rushed back. Feeling peripheral, experiencing heartbreak, longing to be wanted and needed, growing up is an universal agony. And as pointed out by Sittenfeld, the fact that you make peace with your being different, is the signal of adulthood.
评分The plot is not exciting nor is the style too appealing. Yet it captures so perfectly the adolescent angst of our existence. Although we may no longer have as much doubt and pain as we had then - the mess of what we were - before we grew up - stays with us - and stays there with pride.
评分过于清晰的世界
评分I wish I had a life like this.
评分关于一个年代的高中生活。一个羞涩普通女孩的成长。
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