From Publishers Weekly Goldberg's second novel (after 2000's Fake Liar Cheat) comes within a spit-and-a-holler of success but, alas, it's short on spit and overlong on holler. The tale could be glibly described as Hitchcockian, but it has more of the feel and texture of a European film one that takes its audience from obscurity to obfuscation without apology and closes with an abiding chill. Thankfully, unlike a European film, the author makes everything clear by the end. Paul Luden, a professor of anthropology, and his adoring wife, Molly, had a child they worshipped. They bought a cabin on Granite Lake in Washington state and were prepared to live a bucolic existence. But a serpent in their Eden first killed their daughter, then drove them to the brink of madness. Both feeling responsible for their daughter's death, they separated. Later, Paul is back on his feet and is dating a 19-year-old student, Ginny, who, like his estranged wife, loves him enough to make him crazy. When he receives a call from a friend that Molly has disappeared from their place at the lake, he returns to the cabin and to a blizzard of bad memories about the death of their child and the breakup of their marriage. The reader, like Paul, soon wonders if Paul has actually killed Molly in the midst of some kind of fugue fit. While this is engrossing and atmospheric stuff, it is too painfully drawn out. That said, Goldberg shows plenty of promise and may yet become a leading suspense writer. Agent, Jennie Dunham. (May 20)Miramax.Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal When narrator Paul Luden travels to his isolated summer lake house with his 19-year-old girlfriend, he discovers that his estranged wife has apparently gone missing. Because Paul has a suspect history (his daughter died at the house under strange circumstances), he is arrested. Paul subsequently unravels mentally, his relationship breaks up, he falls into self-destructive trances, and he ultimately discovers the truth about his wife. The author of Fake Liar Cheat has produced an evocative read full of seductive prose, sharply focused characters, and a microcosmic world fraught with human sadness. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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评分我必须承认,我花了比平时更长的时间来消化这本书,不是因为情节晦涩,而是因为其中蕴含的情感密度太大了。这本书的情感基调是沉重的,带着一种挥之不去的宿命感,但有趣的是,它又时不时地迸发出那种青春特有的、对生活近乎鲁莽的热爱。作者的遣词造句充满了画面感和强烈的感官刺激,比如对某种特定气味的执着描述,或者对城市夜景中霓虹灯光影的独特捕捉,这些细节让整个故事的“质感”非常强。读到后半段,我明显感觉到,主角的“成长”并非是传统意义上的“洗白”或“回归”,而是一种对自身处境更深刻、更痛苦的接纳。她没有成为一个“更好”的人,但她成为了一个更“完整”的自我。我特别欣赏那种悲剧英雄式的收尾,没有廉价的团圆,只有一种凛冽的、带着伤痕的真实。这本书就像一首很酷的独立摇滚乐,前奏可能有点刺耳,但一旦进入主旋律,你就彻底被它的能量场捕获了。
评分这本书,天呐,我简直不敢相信我竟然在Kindle无限里翻到了这么一出好东西!一开始我被那个封面吸引住了,那种带着点哥特风又有点怀旧的色彩搭配,让我这个对边缘文化有点好奇心的老读者立刻点了进去。故事的开篇,节奏就快得让人喘不过气来,主角一出场就带着一股子桀骜不驯的劲儿,你感觉她不是那种会乖乖听话的角色。作者的笔力很老辣,寥寥几笔就勾勒出了一个在边缘挣扎,却又异常坚韧的年轻女性形象。我尤其欣赏作者对场景的描绘,那种潮湿、带着霉味的地下空间,仿佛能透过屏幕闻到空气中的味道。书中对人物内心挣扎的刻画也极其细腻,她那种对主流世界的不屑和对自己身份的迷茫,写得太真实了。我记得有一个桥段,她偷偷潜入一个看似光鲜亮丽的派对,结果却发现那里的虚伪比她所处的“黑暗”世界还要令人作呕。整本书读下来,就像经历了一场高速的过山车,情感的起伏跌宕,让人欲罢不能。这本书绝不是那种读完就忘的流水账,它会让你在合上书本后,依然会时不时地回想起那些充满张力和未解的谜团,绝对是近期我读到过最让人耳目一新的作品之一。
评分咳,说实话,我一开始是对这种题材有点保留意见的,总觉得这类书容易写得过于矫揉造作,或者陷入俗套的“反叛少女”模板。但这位作者显然是玩出了新花样。这本书最妙的地方在于,它巧妙地模糊了“正常”与“异常”的界限。你看着主角在那个灰色的地带游走,时而显得无比的脆弱,时而又爆发出惊人的生存智慧。叙事结构上,它采用了非线性的手法,时不时地插入一些闪回或者梦境的片段,这些碎片化的信息,迫使读者必须主动参与到故事的构建中去,而不是被动接受。这种阅读体验非常烧脑,但绝对是值得的。我得特别提一下书中对几个配角的塑造,他们每个人都像是一块拼图,都有自己不可告人的秘密和动机,即便是看起来最无害的那个人,到最后也让人脊背发凉。我猜测,作者可能想通过这部作品探讨的是,在现代社会高速运转的机器下,个体如何保持自己的“异质性”而不被同化。这本书的文学性和故事性达到了一个很高的平衡点,推荐给那些受够了平庸叙事,渴望被挑战的读者们。
评分哇塞,这部作品简直就是一股泥石流,一股子带着烟火气和颓废美的强劲清流!我原本以为会看到一些陈词滥调的“叛逆”,结果却收获了一场关于边缘生存哲学的探讨。作者的叙事声音太独特了,它有一种旁观者的高傲,又有一种局内人的绝望,两者结合得天衣无缝。这本书的语言风格非常口语化,但又夹杂着一些突然出现的、极具诗意的精妙比喻,这种混搭感极大地增强了阅读的乐趣和新鲜感。我特别喜欢书中对“家”这个概念的解构,它颠覆了所有传统定义,展示了在破碎的环境中,人们如何用非传统的方式建立连接和归属感。它不提供简单的答案,而是抛出更多尖锐的问题。读完之后,我有一种强烈的冲动,想立刻找人讨论里面的每一个细节,因为它太值得玩味了。这本书的后劲很足,绝对是那种能被反复品味,每次都能发现新东西的佳作。
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