Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers.
The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future.
Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time , "utterly irresistible."
From the Hardcover edition.
If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the early 1940’s in the South, where your nearest neighbor was miles away, read Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow. And, maybe, you will have a yearning for the good old days, when life was so much simp...
评分If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the early 1940’s in the South, where your nearest neighbor was miles away, read Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow. And, maybe, you will have a yearning for the good old days, when life was so much simp...
评分If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the early 1940’s in the South, where your nearest neighbor was miles away, read Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow. And, maybe, you will have a yearning for the good old days, when life was so much simp...
评分If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the early 1940’s in the South, where your nearest neighbor was miles away, read Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow. And, maybe, you will have a yearning for the good old days, when life was so much simp...
评分If you ever wondered what it was like to live in the early 1940’s in the South, where your nearest neighbor was miles away, read Fannie Flagg’s Standing in the Rainbow. And, maybe, you will have a yearning for the good old days, when life was so much simp...
如果非要给这本书找一个核心主题,我会认为它是关于“未竟之事”的编年史。书中人物似乎都被某种过去遗留下的责任、承诺或是未能实现的梦想所困缚,他们的人生轨迹不是向前延伸,而是不断地在过去与现在的交错线上徘徊。我从中看到的不是悲观,而是一种对“人之所以为人”的深刻体认——我们都是由那些未完成的篇章所定义的。那些被搁置的乐器、那些未寄出的信件、那些在午夜时分独自重复的旋律,构成了角色生命中最真实的部分。作者通过这些“未完成”,构建了一种迷人的宿命感,但又巧妙地保留了一丝开放性,让你在合上书页的那一刻,依然在思考:他们最终能否真正解脱?这本书成功地避开了传统意义上的“大团圆”或“彻底毁灭”,而是停留在了一种令人回味无穷的“悬而未决”之中,这份模糊的张力,才是其最耐人寻味之处。
评分《雨后的彩虹》这本书,坦白说,初读时我有些被它的标题误导了。我本以为会是一部关于希望、光亮和美好结局的温馨故事,毕竟“彩虹”这个意象太有感染力了。然而,作者却巧妙地将笔触伸向了那些潜藏在绚烂光芒之下的复杂人性与沉重现实。故事的主角,那位在暴风雨后努力寻找色彩的艺术家,他的挣扎与困惑,简直就是我生活中的一面镜子。我尤其欣赏作者对细节的描绘,比如那片被雨水打湿的旧画布上,颜料如何以一种近乎痛苦的方式晕开,那种质感仿佛能穿透纸面直达读者的感官。书中对于“等待”的探讨也极为深刻,不是那种被动的消极等待,而是一种充满张力的、对内在力量的蓄积与重塑。他笔下的人物,没有一个是扁平的符号,每个人都有自己的阴影和难以启齿的秘密,他们的对话充满了试探与未尽之意,读起来让人需要反复咀嚼,才能体会到那层若有若无的深意。这绝不是一本能让人轻松读完的书,它要求你投入情感,也要求你剖析自我,读完后,世界在你眼中似乎多了一层更微妙的光谱。
评分我必须承认,这本书的叙事节奏非常挑衅。它不是那种循规蹈矩、线性推进的叙事,更像是一张错综复杂的思维导图,充满了非线性的跳跃和意识流的片段。初读时我好几次差点因为跟不上作者的思绪而感到挫败,仿佛被卷入了一场意识的漩涡。但是,一旦你适应了这种独特的节奏,你会发现它无比迷人。作者处理时间的方式极为大胆,过去、现在、甚至是对未来的某种模糊预感,它们不是依次排列的,而是相互渗透、相互影响。特别是书中穿插的那些关于“记忆的失真”的段落,简直是神来之笔。那些回忆片段,每一个都带着强烈的个人情绪滤镜,真假难辨,让读者不得不去质疑:我们所珍视的“真实”,究竟有多少是自己构建出来的幻象?这种对认知边界的不断试探,让这本书的厚度远超其页数。它更像是一场智力上的挑战,而非单纯的故事消遣,适合那些喜欢在文字迷宫中探险的读者。
评分从文学技巧的角度来看,作者对语言的驾驭达到了炉火纯青的地步,但这种“好”不是指辞藻的华丽堆砌,而是指其选择的“精确性”和“克制”。通篇没有一句多余的感叹或解释,所有情感的爆发都通过极其精准的动词和形容词来传达,留给读者的空间极大。我特别喜欢那种“留白”的美学,很多关键的转折点和人物的内心挣扎,作者都选择了沉默,让读者自行去填补那些空白。这种互动性极强,迫使我们必须调动自身的全部经验和想象力去完成作品的意义构建。举个例子,书中有一段关于告别的描写,没有用到“难过”或“不舍”这类直白词汇,而是用一系列极其日常却又带着某种仪式感的动作来暗示,读完后心脏像被轻轻捏了一下,那种难以言喻的酸楚感,远比直接的描述来得更有力量。这是一种高级的叙事艺术,需要极高的阅读耐心和悟性。
评分这本书最让我震撼的地方,在于其对“空间”的运用。这不是那种宏大叙事的地理背景,而是聚焦于极度私密、封闭的室内空间。比如那间常年拉着厚重窗帘的书房,或者那间堆满了未完成手稿的阁楼——这些空间仿佛拥有了自己的生命和呼吸,成为了角色内心世界的物理投射。作者对光影的捕捉达到了近乎偏执的程度,每一束穿过百叶窗投射在地板上的光束,都携带着某种象征意义,时而是救赎的希望,时而是审判的目光。阅读过程中,我感觉自己不是在“看”故事,而是被动地“住”进了这些角色所处的环境中,空气中的尘埃、旧家具散发出的霉味,都栩栩如生地浮现出来。这种身临其境的感受,是许多强调“沉浸式阅读”的作品都未能达到的高度。它让我开始重新审视自己日常生活中那些被忽略的角落,思考它们如何塑造了我们的存在感。
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