Amazon.com Author Anthony Bourdain is a talented chef whose two previous thrillers (Bone in the Throat, Gone Bamboo) were seasoned with the kind of culinary details that delighted the Food Channel-loving fans of his successful nonfiction books. The foodies will slaver over a wonderfully wrought scene in his latest caper novel--it's set at a chic Manhattan restaurant where a gourmand gangster with a picky palate turns the chef's menu upside down and stiffs the poor waiter who has to accommodate him. But the rest of this otherwise slight and unseasoned novel doesn't live up to that wonderful appetizer. Its protagonist is Bobby Gold, an ex-con who works as a security guard at Eddie Fish's Nightclub and is involved with a sexy sous-chef named Nikki whose preparation of a special meal for her lover reads like Bourdain's version of foreplay. But when Nikki rips off the restaurant receipts and Bobby gets on the wrong side of a mob plan to kill Eddie's appetite for good while recouping the money, Bourdain's plotting goes sour and the ending fails to satisfy. Still, it's a nice side dish to go with a good cookbook, or even one of the author's zany true stories of what goes on behind the swinging doors of many real-life restaurants (Kitchen Confidential, A Cook's Tour). --Jane Adams From Publishers Weekly With the same explosive energy and irreverent humor with which he described the behind-the-scenes affairs of the restaurant industry in Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain revisits some of the themes that made him famous: passion, food and violence. The novel (Bourdain's third, after Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo) tells the story of Bobby Gold, probably the world's most unlikely gangster. A nice Jewish pre-med student implicated in a drug deal gone bad, Bobby goes to prison for 10 years and emerges with an entirely different set of uses for his knowledge of anatomy. Once released, he goes to work for his old friend Eddie Fish, a mobster turned nightclub owner, and falls in love with Nikki, a boisterous sous-chef with dangerous ambitions. Bobby and Nikki get involved in a botched robbery, forcing both to run for their lives. Their seedy shenanigans are wittily chronicled by Bourdain, in his nouveau hard-boiled prose ("'You want truffle jiz? Get your own truffle jiz, cabron' "). In one memorable set piece, Bobby engages in multiple pages of rueful conversation with an old fish wholesaler who's late on a payment to Eddie and knows he's about to be worked over (" `I get to pick the arm?' `Sure,' said Bobby. `Your choice. You pick it' "). Readers will once again be delighted by Bourdain's charming, rugged sensibility, like a modern-day Damon Runyon, and his gourmet blend of wit, suspense and style.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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说实话,一开始我有点担心篇幅会不会过于庞大而显得拖沓,但事实证明我的顾虑完全是多余的。作者的叙事功力简直是教科书级别的,他知道何时该快刀斩乱麻,何时该细细描摹那些转瞬即逝的细节,使得整部作品的结构紧凑而富有张力。特别是对于环境的渲染,简直达到了令人惊叹的地步,无论是阴森压抑的城市角落,还是阳光明媚却暗藏玄机的郊外小镇,都通过文字跃然纸上,成功地烘托了人物的心境和事件的走向。我特别欣赏作者在运用象征手法上的高明,那些看似不经意的物件或重复出现的场景,实际上都承载着重要的主题隐喻,为故事增添了丰富的解读层次。这使得每一次重读都会有新的发现,就像剥洋葱一样,每深入一层都能触及到更核心、更令人震撼的内核。这本书成功地模糊了现实与虚构的界限,让读者开始质疑自己所处的“真实”,这种高超的文学技巧让人不得不拍案叫绝。它不仅仅是一部娱乐消遣的作品,更是一次对既有世界观的温柔但坚定的挑战。
评分这本书的对话部分简直是神来之笔,每一个角色的声音都是如此独特、鲜明,让人听过一次就能在脑海中立刻辨认出来。作者没有使用大量复杂的形容词来刻画人物,而是通过他们说话的方式、用词的选择,甚至是停顿和重复,就将角色的性格、背景和当时的心理状态刻画得入木三分。这种“少即是多”的写作哲学在本书中得到了完美体现。我尤其喜欢那种充满张力的对手戏,几句话的交锋,火花四溅,里面藏着无数的试探、妥协与反抗,比直接的动作描写更加引人入胜。它迫使你放慢速度,仔细咀嚼每一个词语的重量,因为你知道,在这个精心构建的世界里,没有一句废话。这种高密度的信息输出,让阅读过程既耗费脑力又充满乐趣。对于那些厌倦了平铺直叙、缺乏深度的当代小说的人来说,这部作品无疑是一股清新的、充满智慧的强心剂。它证明了优秀的故事不需要华丽的辞藻堆砌,只需要精准的表达和深刻的洞察力。
评分从文学性的角度来看,这部作品的语言质感非常高级,它摆脱了流行的写作风格,形成了一种独属于作者的、沉稳而富有韵律感的语调。它的文字不是那种轻飘飘的、转瞬即逝的,而是像陈年的老酒,需要时间去品味其醇厚的口感。这种风格赋予了故事一种永恒感,仿佛它描写的并非只是某个特定时空下的事件,而是关于人性永恒困境的深刻寓言。我特别欣赏那些偶尔出现的、近乎诗歌般的段落,它们像夜空中的星辰一样,在叙事的洪流中闪烁着微光,为故事增添了难以言喻的美感和深度。它不是那种能让你一目十行快速读完的书,而是那种需要你蜷缩在舒适的角落里,伴着一杯热饮,慢慢享受阅读过程的佳作。如果你期待一部能提升你阅读品味、并在内心留下深刻印记的作品,那么请不要错过它。它拥有那种能够跨越时间检验的文学价值,绝对值得拥有和珍藏。
评分这部作品读起来真是一场奇妙的旅程,作者的笔触细腻得如同春日里拂过面颊的微风,每一个场景、每一个人物的内心活动都描绘得淋漓尽致,让人仿佛身临其境。故事的节奏把握得恰到好处,时而急促如疾风骤雨,紧紧揪住读者的心弦,时而又放缓下来,让读者有时间去品味那些隐藏在对话和动作背后的深层含义。我尤其欣赏作者在构建复杂人际关系上的功力,那些微妙的误解、未言明的爱意,以及命运的捉弄,都被编织成一张密不透风的网,让整个叙事充满了张力和回味无穷的魅力。这本书不只是在讲述一个故事,它更像是在探讨人性的幽微之处,那些我们习以为常却又常常忽略的情感光谱,被作者用一种近乎哲学的洞察力展现出来。读完后,我花了很长时间才从那种沉浸感中抽离出来,耳边似乎还回荡着书中那些经典对白的回音,那种意犹未尽的感觉,正是优秀文学作品所特有的印记。我强烈推荐给所有喜欢深度阅读、追求情感共鸣的读者,它绝对会成为你书架上的一颗璀璨明珠,值得反复翻阅。
评分我必须强调一下作者在处理时间线上的老练手法。故事并非完全按照线性顺序展开,而是巧妙地穿插着回忆、闪回和预示,这种非线性的叙事结构非但没有造成阅读障碍,反而极大地增强了悬念和宿命感。每一次时间维度的跳跃,都像是在拼凑一幅被打乱的精美瓷画,直到最后一块碎片归位,整个宏大的图景才赫然出现在眼前,那种恍然大悟的震撼感是无与伦比的。这种叙事上的复杂性,显示出作者对故事脉络有着极其清晰的掌控力,绝非信手拈来。它要求读者必须保持高度的专注力,去追踪那些看似不相关的线索,并将它们在脑中建立起逻辑关联。这种主动参与到故事构建过程中的体验,是阅读体验中最高级的享受之一。看完后,我甚至忍不住去翻阅开头的章节,去验证那些最初的伏笔是如何巧妙地铺设,这种设计上的精妙感,让我对作者的敬佩之情油然而生。
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