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发表于2024-11-21
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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed
In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker—a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry’s brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father’s money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma’s research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction—into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist—but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life.
Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who—born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution—bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert’s wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her short story collection, Pilgrims, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her novel, Stern Men, was a New York Times Notable Book. Her 2002 book, The Last American Man, was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is best known for her 2006 memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which has been published in more than thirty languages; a film based on the memoir, starring Julia Roberts, opened in August 2010. Her most recent book, the memoir Committed: A Love Story, appeared in 2010. In 2008, Time magazine named Gilbert one of the most influential people in the world. Her Web site is www.elizabethgilbert.com.
Biography
While Elizabeth Gilbert's roots are in journalism -- she's a Pushcart Prize-winning and National Magazine Award-nominated writer -- it's her books that have granted her even more attention.
Gilbert departed from reporting in 1997, with the publication of her first collection of short fiction, Pilgrims. A finalist for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, Pilgrims was also selected as a New York Times Notable Book, was listed as one of the "Most Intriguing Books of 1997" by Glamour magazine, and went on to win best first fiction awards from The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and Ploughshares.
Since then, Gilbert has successfully alternated between fiction and nonfiction -- a high-wire act that has paid off in a string of critically acclaimed bestsellers that includes her first full-length novel, Stern Men (2000); The Last American Man (2002), a National Book Award for Nonfiction; and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia (2006), a celebrated spiritual memoir that landed on several year-end Best Books lists.
听的英文有声书。作者的第一本我就不喜欢,这本仍然不喜欢。简直是太话唠了,事无巨细都要写,有点太啰嗦。而且一开始没有意识到这是个传记体小说,传记的写法十分不习惯。
评分好看好看,一口气读完。《美食,祈祷和恋爱》的作者最新小说,在槟城旅游的时候在书店看到,回来后就下载了免费的kindle版本。这本书是关于科学(植物学)关于宗教,关于人的思想,关于女性,关于生命,关于如何过有意义的一辈子。
评分磨好久才读完,其实并不会鉴赏英文小说,但喜欢故事设定:女知识分子,探索,植物学家,漂洋过海,塔希提岛,进化论和超自然,个个都很带劲。Alma一生的终极意义在于研究、读懂这个世界,从费城到塔希提到阿姆斯特丹,远离故土却终得理解而永不孤独。
评分实在太冗长了…成为我很长一段时间的催眠读物…
评分What a life Alma had lived! I enjoyed this audiobook so much read by Juliet Stevenson.
看了一半以后,云山雾罩。开始以为是个药业帝国的血战兴衰史,几章以后走向了姐妹撕逼庄园爱情剧。在Alma发现一本儿性爱宝典以后,我满心欢喜地准备看女性解放后的身心爆发。落空。开始怀疑是不是要展开废奴运动。也没有。Alma经过半本书,长成一个十九世纪初有独立思考和科学...
评分1859年11月24日达尔文的《物种起源》在英国伦敦出版,立刻引起轰动。一个月后,身处荷兰的六十岁的女植物学家阿尔玛读完这本书,泪流满面。哭泣是因为喜悦,她写过一篇和达尔文观点类似的论文,可惜没有发表,达尔文的成就证明了她并不孤独。 与阿尔玛同样处境的还有华莱士,...
评分成长,始终应该是一个学着“接纳”的过程。我们会收获这个在我们自己的认知里越发清晰的世界带给我们的惊喜,也需要承受它带给我们的考验。倘若一切其实并不美好,我们也要学着原谅。 《万物的签名》讲述的,便是这样一个关于原谅的故事。作为一本带有历史小说风格的传记体...
评分看了一半以后,云山雾罩。开始以为是个药业帝国的血战兴衰史,几章以后走向了姐妹撕逼庄园爱情剧。在Alma发现一本儿性爱宝典以后,我满心欢喜地准备看女性解放后的身心爆发。落空。开始怀疑是不是要展开废奴运动。也没有。Alma经过半本书,长成一个十九世纪初有独立思考和科学...
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