In The Vineyard, New York Times bestselling author Barbara Delinsky (Lake News, Coast Road, Three Wishes) has written her most complex and emotionally rewarding novel: a story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other s. To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances. She is exquisitely mannered, socially adept, a supportive wife, and head of a successful wine-producing enterprise. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. There is much that her children don t know about her life -- about her love of the vineyard, her role in fighting to build it up, and the sacrifices she made for her family. Olivia Jones is a dreamer, living vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter, Tess, have no one but themselves, so they cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there somewhere, just waiting to welcome them home. When Olivia is hired by Natalie to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie s beautiful vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy -- an elegant home by the shore, a salary that allows her to hire a tutor for her dyslexic daughter, a job that is creative, hours spent with a woman who has led a charmed life. But all is not as it seems, Olivia and Tess discover when they arrive at Asquonset, the vineyard in Rhode Island. While welcoming, Natalie is not quite the mothering type, as is quickly evident in the hostility her daughter and son have toward her -- it s a hostility that Olivia must buffer. Another dose of stark reality comes in the form of Simon Burke, who runs the vineyard s day-to-day operation and sees in Olivia and Tess an unwelcome reminder of the wife and daughter he tragically lost. And then there is the cruel reality of Olivia s own life -- the mother who never wanted her, and a career that has floundered. Natalie s story, intended for her own children, enlightens Olivia as well. The lives of these two women of different generations, parallel in so many ways, become, in The Vineyard, a powerful and moving story as the fantasy of an idealized life, complete with perfect romance, crashes headlong into reality.
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这本小说简直是一场感官的盛宴,作者的笔触细腻得让人心惊,每一个场景都仿佛能透过纸页扑面而来。我特别喜欢书中对人物内心世界的刻画,那种微妙的情绪波动,那些隐藏在日常对话之下的暗流涌动,都被描摹得淋漓尽致。主人公的成长轨迹充满了现实的重量感,每一次抉择都牵动着读者的神经。与其说是在阅读一个故事,不如说是在窥视一群鲜活灵魂的挣扎与希望。书中的环境描写尤其出色,那种地方特有的气息、光影和声响,都构建了一个让人沉浸其中的世界。读完之后,那种挥之不去的感觉,就像是刚刚从一场漫长而真实的梦境中醒来,依稀还能感受到梦境的温度和味道。我很少遇到能将叙事节奏控制得如此张弛有度的作品,高潮迭起却不失韵味,平静之处亦蕴含着力量。
评分坦率地说,我一开始对这本书的期待值并不高,毕竟市面上同类型的作品太多了,总觉得会是老套路。然而,这本书彻底颠覆了我的预判。它的叙事结构非常大胆,像是碎片化的记忆和闪回交织在一起,起初有些挑战性,但一旦适应了这种节奏,你会发现它极大地增强了悬念和深度。作者没有急于给出答案,而是让我们跟随主人公一起在迷雾中摸索,这种参与感是很多线性叙事无法比拟的。我尤其欣赏作者在处理复杂人性时的那种毫不妥协的诚实,没有绝对的好人或坏蛋,只有在特定环境和压力下做出反应的凡人。其中几段对白的设计简直是神来之笔,寥寥数语,却蕴含着巨大的信息量和情绪张力,读完后我常常需要停下来回味很久,思考其中未尽之意。
评分这本书的文笔简直可以用“华丽的克制”来形容。它不像某些作品那样堆砌辞藻,而是用极其精准、几乎是精准到冷酷的词汇来构建画面。我特别注意到作者对于“沉默”的处理,书中大量的非语言交流和环境的静默,比任何激烈的争吵都更能说明问题。这对于追求快速、刺激情节的读者来说,可能会觉得节奏稍慢,但对于喜欢细品文字韵味的人来说,简直是饕餮盛宴。我用了比平时长一倍的时间来读完它,不是因为看不懂,而是因为舍不得读快。每一个转折点都铺垫得极其到位,让你在“啊,原来如此”的恍然大悟中,又带着一丝“早该想到的”的自我反思。这是一部需要耐心,但绝对回报丰厚的作品。
评分我必须得承认,这本书的阅读体验是有些“沉重”的,但这种沉重是带着一种净化人心的力量的。它探讨的主题——关于失去、关于救赎、关于时间对记忆的腐蚀——都直击人心的痛点。我不是一个容易被情节完全代入的读者,但这本书里某些段落让我切实感受到了那种无可挽回的宿命感。小说的基调偏向于忧郁和内省,但绝非是令人沮丧的。相反,它提供了一种面对生活真相的勇气。作者对于历史的引用和背景资料的铺陈,做得非常自然且富有层次感,没有丝毫的“说教”意味,而是巧妙地融入了角色的世界观中。这本书更像是一面镜子,映照出我们自己生命中那些未曾言说的遗憾和渴望。
评分这部作品的魅力在于它对“关系”的精妙解构。它不是简单地讲述爱情或友情,而是深入剖析了人与人之间,以及人与所处环境之间那种复杂、纠缠不清的连接点。我很少看到一部小说能够如此坦然地描绘出关系中的“灰色地带”——那些爱与恨交织、依赖与疏离并存的微妙状态。几个主要角色的互动充满了张力,他们互相成就,也互相消耗,令人唏嘘。整体的叙事氛围是那种带有地域色彩的、略显封闭和宿命论的,让人感觉仿佛被困在了那个故事发生的地点,无处可逃。但正是在这种“无处可逃”的设定下,主人公们最终找到了属于自己的、虽然微小却无比坚韧的出路。这是一部关于“留下”与“离开”的深刻寓言。
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