The brilliant new novel from the bestselling cult author of them all. Susan and John need to disappear -- Susan and John need to find each other. Meet Susan Colgate -- Miss Wyoming. Winner of a hundred teen pageants, child TV soap star, owner of a hideously pushy mother...and now reduced to small, brainless parts in small, brainless movies. Oh, and sole survivor of Flight 802. If she were to walk away from the wreckage now, before the emergency crews get here, she could disappear and nobody would ever know...Meet John Johnson -- action film producer (Bel Air P.I...um, Bel Air P.I. 2), occasional sado-masochist, junkie. He just died -- but only for 5 minutes. But while he was gone, he saw a vision of a woman's face and realized that it was time to escape, to ditch the baggage of being horny, rich, lonely John Johnson and to lose himself. To disappear. Wouldn't it be nice if they were to find themselves and get together? In many ways a reprise of Girlfriend in a Coma, Miss Wyoming represents a further leap forwards into the World According to Coupland -- a witty, genuinely funny look at who we are, how we can change, and how we can make a difference.
Heroine of this outstanding tale is Miss Wyoming, Susan Colgate, teen beauty-queen and low-rent soap actress. Dragooned into stardom by her demonically pushy, hillbilly mother, Susan's career is at rock-bottom. When she finds herself sole survivor of an air-crash, she views it as her opportunity to vanish, embarking on a voyage of personal discovery.
Meanwhile, John Johnson, debauched star of such Hollywood legends as Bel Air PI?, also longs to vanish. After a near-death experience, where he is treated to a vision of Susan's face, he roams the badlands of the western States. Back in L.A., a chance meeting sets him on a mission to unravel the mystery of Susan Colgate.
Coupland has a genius for capturing the absurdities of modern existence and using them as backdrop for a tale of hope and fulfilment. The curses of the cyber-age--junk-mail and web-junkies, fast food, jaded TV weather forecasters--teem around the central st0ry, creating a vivid and darkly funny tale. His peripheral characters are just as richly drawn. A scriptwriter and his supernaturally intelligent girlfriend, a recluse who spends his evening generating Internet rumours--all manage to be blessed and cursed, numbed by their pointless existences but full of humanity when put to the test. Picture Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut co-writing Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and you come halfway to grasping Coupland's uniquely funny and thoughtful brand of storytelling.
--Matthew Baylis
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这部小说真是一部令人捧腹的“生活百科全书”,虽然我没有读过《MISS WYOMING》,但光是那些描述生活琐事的篇章,就已经让我对作者的观察力叹为观止了。我尤其喜欢其中对于一家三口周末早晨咖啡冲泡过程的细致刻画,那种精确到毫秒的计时、对不同咖啡豆研磨程度的执着追求,简直就像在看一部微观世界的纪录片。主人公对“完美早餐”的执念,让我想起我邻居那位对修剪草坪有强迫症的老先生,那种将日常琐事提升到哲学高度的热情,真是令人又敬佩又想笑。作者的笔触细腻得让人仿佛能闻到烤面包的香气,感受到地板上传来的微凉。这种对平凡生活细节的放大镜式审视,使得即便是最平淡的场景也充满了张力。故事中穿插的几段关于社区园艺比赛的描写,简直是小镇政治的缩影,那些关于月季花品系优劣的争论,比任何宏大叙事都要来得真实和火爆。我猜想,无论《MISS WYOMING》讲述的是什么故事,它一定也充满了这样一种对“此时此刻”的极致捕捉,让人在阅读时忍不住停下来,审视自己是否也错过了身边那些微小却重要的瞬间。这种将日常打磨成艺术品的功力,绝对不是一朝一夕能练成的,它需要作者拥有极其敏锐的感知力和不倦的耐心。
评分读完这本(我猜想的)关于人际关系和自我探索的佳作,我最大的感受是,作者对于“选择”这个主题的探讨真是深入骨髓。故事情节的推进虽然缓慢,却如同抽丝剥茧般揭示了人性中那些复杂、矛盾的面向。我特别欣赏其中关于友谊与背叛那段描写的笔法,它没有采用戏剧化的冲突来推动情节,而是通过无数个细微的对话停顿、一个不经意的眼神接触,将两人之间那道裂痕展现得淋漓尽致。这种“此处无声胜有声”的处理方式,极考验作者对人物心理的精准把握。我敢打赌,《MISS WYOMING》里一定也有类似的情感暗流在涌动,或许是关于身份认同的挣扎,或许是关于未竟梦想的释怀。那些看似不经意的场景,比如雨夜里一个人走在空旷街道上的画面,在作者的笔下立刻被赋予了沉重的象征意义,让人不禁思考自己人生中那些关键的转折点。整本书的节奏感把握得极好,它懂得何时该加速,何时又该沉静下来,让读者有足够的时间去消化那些关于“成为谁”和“离开谁”的诘问。这是一种非常成熟的叙事技巧,不炫技,但处处见功力。
评分这本书的语言风格,简直就像是夏日午后一场突如其来的暴雨,酣畅淋漓,带着泥土和青草混合的清新气息。我被作者那种近乎于诗歌的散文句式深深吸引住了。那些用来描绘自然景物的段落,简直可以直接拿来做文学鉴赏的范例。比如,对于风吹过玉米地时发出的沙沙声,作者用了不下十种不同的动词来形容,每一种都精准地捕捉了风力、叶片角度和声音的细微差别。这种对词汇的精挑细选,表明作者对语言本身抱有一种近乎虔诚的热爱。虽然我没读过《MISS WYOMING》,但我可以想象,如果故事背景设定在广袤的西部平原,那文字的张力一定会更加突出。那种空旷感和宿命感,会通过作者层层叠叠的排比句和充满画面感的形容词被烘托到极致。阅读时,我感觉自己不是在看文字,而是在用眼睛“听”和“看”一场盛大的感官体验。这种文字密度极高的作品,要求读者必须全神贯注,因为错过了哪怕一个副词,都可能导致对整句话意境的误解。这无疑是一本需要反复品读,并在书页空白处写满批注的精品。
评分这部书给我最大的震撼来自于其内在所蕴含的巨大情感能量,尽管它是以一种极其克制、内敛的方式表达出来的。作者似乎深谙“收”比“放”更有力量的道理。故事中角色的痛苦和挣扎,很少通过嚎啕大哭或激烈的争吵来展现,而是凝结在紧锁的眉头、颤抖的指尖,或者一句未说出口的“对不起”之中。这种留白的处理,极大地拓展了读者的想象空间,让读者得以将自己的经验和情感投射到角色身上,从而产生更深层次的共鸣。我猜测,《MISS WYOMING》一定探讨了“沉默的爱”或是“未愈合的创伤”这类主题。它教会我们,真正深刻的情感往往是无声的,它们在我们日常生活的缝隙中悄然生长,并且最终塑造了我们的命运。阅读完毕后,那种感觉不是情节的结束,而更像是一场漫长的、安静的告别,余韵悠长,久久不散,让人在合上书本后,仍需时间来整理内心翻涌的情绪波澜。这绝对是一部能让人“慢下来”品味人性的深度之作。
评分从结构布局的角度来看,这部作品展现出了一种罕见的宏大与精巧并存的特质。它仿佛一座用无数精密齿轮咬合而成的钟表,每一个章节的转折都像是下一个动作的完美预示。我尤其欣赏作者对于非线性叙事的大胆运用。故事的时间线似乎是跳跃的,从一个遥远的童年记忆突然切入到一个紧张的当下场景,但神奇的是,读者却从未感到迷失。这种巧妙的穿插,使得主题的阐述更加立体和多维。我可以推测,《MISS WYOMING》在处理时间流逝和记忆碎片方面,一定也颇有建树。也许书中存在着一条贯穿始终的“信物”或“地点”,每次出现都带着新的解读和更深的含义。这种结构上的匠心,让阅读过程充满了解谜的乐趣。每一次看似随意的回忆,实则都是对后续情节的有力铺垫,体现了作者高超的布局能力。它不是那种一气呵成的故事,而是需要读者主动去拼凑、去发现隐藏在文本结构之下的深层逻辑,读起来非常有智力上的满足感。
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