From Kirkus Reviews A first novel, set in African-American and Latino communities, that offers some heartfelt insights gleaned from the bumpy road of courtship. Though nearly 30, Myles Moore has convinced himself that hes perfectly content with his single statusas a grade-school teacher, hes busy and surrounded by a close circle of friends, and hes willing to forgo dating while he waits for the right woman. And in she walks at a mutual friends house party (the meeting is a set-up, but the skittish Myles doesnt know it until much later); literally bumping into Myles is the beautiful, feisty Marisa Marrero. Marisa is relocating from her lucrative career as an attorney in Washington, D.C., to begin a radio talk show in Philadelphia, and Myles is more than happy to help her get settled ingoing as far as to suggest she take the vacant apartment across the hall from his, allowing for an almost live-in relationship from the start. Myles, gentle and caring, is a far cry from the usual self-involved high-rollers Marisa is accustomed to, while, for him, Marisa is perfection. The problems and triumphs the two encounter are smallless the stuff of fiction than the stuff of real life. Myles is overly emotional, Marisa coldly intellectual, refusing to share anything with him, including the heartache of her childhood as a Cuban refugee. Will she learn to trust Mylesand herself? Can Myles learn patience and restraint? Its little surprise that true love wins, the peaks and valleys of the relationship here being only slightly more significant to the novel than the witty contours of Myles life: talkin trash on the basketball court, raucous romantic advice being doled out by his older brother, Myles valuing the tender relationship he has with his two nieces. Major, with a gift for dialogue, creates an amiable workthough small in scale, it serves as a companionable distraction into the territory of romantic love. -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. New Pittsburg Courier Sexy, sensitive...in the tradition of Eric Jerome Dickey. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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我对书籍的选择标准之一,是看它是否能提供一个完全脱离我现有生活框架的视角。现代社会的信息流太快了,我们很容易陷入自己的信息茧房,看待问题的角度也越来越单一化。《Good Peoples》在这方面做得非常出色,它仿佛架设了一座通往另一个时空或另一种生活哲学的桥梁。里面的某些角色设定,或者对某种传统习俗的细致描摹,是我的日常生活中绝对接触不到的。我不是在寻找异域风情,而是期待看到人性在不同环境下的普遍性和独特性。这本书巧妙地平衡了这两者,它展示了不同“群体”的内在逻辑,这些逻辑可能与我所处的环境格格不入,但理解它们的过程,却极大地拓宽了我对“何为常态”的认知边界。这不仅仅是阅读故事,更像是一次深度的文化人类学考察,让我对人类经验的多样性有了更深刻的敬畏。
评分我通常是那种会因为情节不合逻辑或人物动机薄弱而立刻弃书的人,但《Good Peoples》里的人物关系网,复杂得让人着迷,却又维持着一种内在的自洽性。这里的“复杂”不是指枝节过多,而是指人物的情感和选择,没有绝对的好与坏,也没有简单的对与错。你看到A为了保护B而做出了C的选择,但从更宏观的角度来看,这个选择又间接伤害了D。作者并没有试图去评判谁是“好人”或“坏蛋”,而是将他们都置于一个由环境、历史和自身弱点共同构成的熔炉中,展示了“人性”的灰色地带。我发现自己时常在阅读时陷入沉思:如果是我,在那种压力和信息不对称的情况下,我会做出同样的选择吗?这种强烈的代入感和道德困境的拷问,使得这本书的体验远超于简单的故事情节推动,它真正做到了引发读者对自身道德观的深度反思,这才是严肃文学的价值所在。
评分这本书的封面设计简直让人眼前一亮,那种复古的油画质感搭配现代简约的字体排版,立刻就抓住了我的眼球。我是一个非常注重书籍视觉体验的读者,所以这本《Good Peoples》在第一时间就成功地吸引了我。书脊的厚度适中,拿在手里很有分量感,纸张的触感也相当不错,不是那种廉价的光滑纸,而是略带纹理的哑光纸张,翻页的时候能感受到一种沉静的仪式感。而且,我注意到装帧的工艺非常考究,即使是内页的插图(虽然我还没开始看具体内容),边缘的处理也十分精细,没有看到任何溢墨或错位的情况。从这个角度来说,这本书的制作本身就是一种艺术品的体现,让人忍不住想把它摆在书架最显眼的位置,静静地欣赏。这种对细节的执着,往往预示着内容也同样是经过精心打磨的,所以我对后续的阅读充满了期待,希望这本书的内涵能够与它精美的外在包装相匹配,带来一场视觉与思想的双重盛宴。
评分说实话,我通常对那种上来就试图教育读者的书籍感到非常抗拒,总觉得充满了说教的意味,让人喘不过气。但《Good Peoples》在最初的几章中,展现出一种非常独特的叙事策略,它没有急于抛出任何宏大的论断,反而像一位老朋友在不经意间,用一种近乎散文诗般的笔调,描摹着一些日常生活中极其微小却又至关重要的瞬间。这种叙述方式的魅力在于它的“留白”,它给了读者充分的空间去自我填充和解读,而不是被作者牵着鼻子走。我喜欢这种不强迫、不急躁的节奏感,它让你在不知不觉中,就沉浸到了作者构建的那个特定氛围里。读这本书的时候,我发现自己会不时地停下来,不是因为情节复杂,而是因为某个词语的运用,或者某个场景的描绘触动了内心深处某种柔软的情绪。这种阅读体验是稀有的,它让你感到被尊重,同时也潜移默化地影响着你的心境,这比任何直接的口号都更有力量。
评分从文体的角度来看,这本书的语言组织结构简直像是在玩一场精密的拼图游戏。我发现作者在处理长难句时,那种句式内部的层叠和韵律感,简直是教科书级别的示范。它绝不是那种追求速度和简洁的现代白话文,反而带着一种古典的、注重声调和节奏的文体特征。有时候,我甚至需要放慢速度,逐字逐句地去品味那些从句和修饰语是如何相互支撑,共同构建出一个稳定而又富有张力的意义结构的。这种阅读过程,与其说是信息的吸收,不如说是一种对语言本身的欣赏和膜拜。它挑战了我们当代人习惯的碎片化阅读模式,要求我们重新找回专注力和对文字力量的敏感度。对于任何一个痴迷于语言艺术,或者希望提升自己写作表达能力的读者来说,光是研究这本书的句法结构,就已经物超所值了。
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