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发表于2024-11-25
Back Roads pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
An intense, vibrant debut novel set among the back roads of Pennsylvania's mining country
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.
With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters, whose feelings about him range from stifling dependence to loathing. And once he develops an obsession with the sexy, melancholic mother of two living down the road, those Victoria's Secret catalogs just won't do the trick anymore. He wants Callie Mercer so badly he fears he will explode. But it's the family secrets, the lies, and the unspoken truths that light the fuse and erupt into a series of staggering surprises, leaving what's left of his family in tatters. Through every ordeal, the unforgettable Harley could never know that his endearing humor, his love for his sisters, and his bumbling heroics would redeem them all.
Funny and heartbreaking, O'Dell's pitch-perfect characters capture the maddening confusion of adolescence and the prickly nature of family with irony and unerring honesty. Back Roads is a riveting novel by a formidable new talent.
讀完後震撼到睡不著,主人公的命運不斷在我腦海盤鏇,越讀到後麵越發現前麵的伏筆太多瞭,隻有讀到最後一個單詞纔有種恍然大悟的感覺。人物性格很飽滿,對哈利的描寫簡直太立體瞭,懦弱,糾結,善良,放縱,信任……在他身上不斷交織,還有他的妹妹們,讓人心疼,睏惑又憤怒。我最喜歡Amber, 自小父親的虐待和母親的無力讓她和哥哥相互取暖,由此産生瞭不見光的情愫。麵對哥哥的逃避,她憤怒,難過,矛盾,她不斷地和男人發生關係,不斷地引起哥哥的注意,不斷地尋找愛。知道哥哥和Cellia的情事之後,她再次放縱自己,可是在哥哥說想讓她留下的時候,她又充滿歡樂的留瞭下來。相對於Misty的黑暗,Joddy的單純,Amber的熱烈,對愛的渴望實在太讓人動容。總之,這是一本讓人捨不得放下的書。
評分讀完後震撼到睡不著,主人公的命運不斷在我腦海盤鏇,越讀到後麵越發現前麵的伏筆太多瞭,隻有讀到最後一個單詞纔有種恍然大悟的感覺。人物性格很飽滿,對哈利的描寫簡直太立體瞭,懦弱,糾結,善良,放縱,信任……在他身上不斷交織,還有他的妹妹們,讓人心疼,睏惑又憤怒。我最喜歡Amber, 自小父親的虐待和母親的無力讓她和哥哥相互取暖,由此産生瞭不見光的情愫。麵對哥哥的逃避,她憤怒,難過,矛盾,她不斷地和男人發生關係,不斷地引起哥哥的注意,不斷地尋找愛。知道哥哥和Cellia的情事之後,她再次放縱自己,可是在哥哥說想讓她留下的時候,她又充滿歡樂的留瞭下來。相對於Misty的黑暗,Joddy的單純,Amber的熱烈,對愛的渴望實在太讓人動容。總之,這是一本讓人捨不得放下的書。
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
評分母親因槍殺父親而被判瞭終身監禁,大兒子照顧著三個妹妹,並和自己兒時的性幻想對象,一有夫之婦搞上瞭,然後發現父親竟然是被二女兒用槍對著母親時誤殺的,原因僅僅是因為父親常年虐待兒女時從來沒打過母親。大女兒從小被父親打的時候就形成瞭戀兄癖,經常半夜去sexual harass哥哥,最終無法忍受哥哥與彆的女人搞在一起而殺瞭那個女人,還把罪名留給哥哥,最終二女兒把哥哥和姐姐的性關係公諸於眾,把他們都送進瞭大牢——what a fucking story
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
評分One of my favs..."soon I'll be nothing but a skeleton of ash that the slightest touch will cause to crumble", it's weird that this confession of that boy would always come into my mind from nowhere...
Back Roads pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024