圖書標籤: 奧巴馬2019書單 外國文學 Susan_Choi 奧巴馬推薦 (English)
发表于2024-11-23
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In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement, Shakespeare, and, particularly, their acting classes. When within this striving “Brotherhood of the Arts,” two freshmen, David and Sarah, fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed―or untoyed with―by anyone, especially not by their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley.
The outside world of family life and economic status, of academic pressure and of their future adult lives, fails to penetrate this school’s walls―until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action forward in time and flips the premise upside-down. What the reader believes to have happened to David and Sarah and their friends is not entirely true―though it’s not false, either. It takes until the book’s stunning coda for the final piece of the puzzle to fall into place―revealing truths that will resonate long after the final sentence.
Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana and was raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker.
Her first novel, The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker, and her non-fiction has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Tin House, Allure, O, and The New York Times and in anthologies such as Money Changes Everything and Brooklyn Was Mine.
A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells and their sons Dexter and Elliot
Brilliant. The structure of two different narrators lays bare the construct of fiction and the malleability of memory, poignant in the context of adolescent sexual abuse--the teenager's idea of her agency makes her blame herself, as an adult she struggles with a new narrative. Overwrought/dazzling language in 1st act. Doles out clues patiently.
評分實在是欣賞不來這類晦澀難懂意義不明的高深文藝作品
評分讀完最後一段之前,我給3.5星,讀完之後,我不懂瞭,然後,我懂瞭,5星。
評分Brilliant. The structure of two different narrators lays bare the construct of fiction and the malleability of memory, poignant in the context of adolescent sexual abuse--the teenager's idea of her agency makes her blame herself, as an adult she struggles with a new narrative. Overwrought/dazzling language in 1st act. Doles out clues patiently.
評分I can see why people tend to LOVE it or HATE it. I'm one of the few somewhere in between.
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Trust Exercise pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024