From Library Journal Faith DiNapoli is the well-meaning eldest daughter of a dysfunctional Italian family living in 1970s Canada. With an absent father, three rambunctious siblings, and a mother who's trying to make the best of the life she's got instead of focusing on the life she wanted, young Faith takes it upon herself to assume religious responsibility and tries to be "good enough" to make up for the flaws of her whole family. She struggles between the person she is and the perfect one she wants to be, and it ultimately takes a test of faith for her to find self-acceptance and her place in the world. Gabriele, a Canadian Lifesize TV executive producer whose work has been published in the Washington Post and Nerve magazine, has written a poignant, memoir-style debut novel that is emotionally intense and ultimately satisfying. Recommended for public libraries. Amy Brozio-Andrews, Albany P.L., NY Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist This funny, winning coming-of-age novel features Canadian Catholic Faith DiNapoli, one of four children of Giusseppe, her Italian immigrant father, and Nancy, her smart, irreverent mother. Nancy's hobbies were listening to Johnny Mathis and being Catholic until the day Faith makes her First Communion, when Nancy decides that she is never going to church again. Her nonconformity makes her family a pariah in their city neighborhood so the DiNapolis move to a small, rural town, where her parents promptly split up. Now Faith is more worried than ever about adhering to the tenets of her faith. And although she tries hard to be a good Catholic, she spends a good deal of her early teenage years shoplifting fashionable clothes, eyeing her tattooed twentysomething neighbor, pilfering beer, and reading her mother's diary (where she discovers the shocking reason why her mother has disowned her faith). First-novelist Gabriele has created a wonderfully dysfunctional family continually short on money but overflowing with passion. Although Faith may be more sinner than saint, she is sure to be an inspiration to good Catholic girls everywhere. Joanne WilkinsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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哇,这本书的节奏感简直像顶级的交响乐!前奏铺陈得悠长而富有悬念,让你屏住呼吸等待第一个音符的爆发。然后,当冲突真正来临时,那种爆发力是压倒性的,仿佛所有的情感和事件都在瞬间汇聚,形成了一个无法阻挡的洪流。我被作者对环境氛围的营造能力深深折服了。它不是那种用大量形容词堆砌出来的“漂亮”,而是通过精准的用词和独特的视角,让环境本身成为一个有生命的、会呼吸的、甚至带有威胁性的角色。角色之间的对话火花四射,字里行间充满了试探、拉扯和隐藏的含义,很多时候,沉默比言语更有力量。我不得不佩服作者的耐心,她没有急于给出一个简单的答案,而是选择让迷雾慢慢散去,让读者和角色一起在黑暗中摸索,这种被引导却又不被告知的阅读体验,实在太高级了,让人欲罢不能。
评分说实话,我一开始对这类题材并不抱太大希望,总觉得会是老生常谈的套路,但这本书完全颠覆了我的预设。它的叙事结构非常巧妙,像是无数条线索在交织,时而清晰,时而又隐秘地交汇,让人需要集中十二分的注意力去捕捉那些细微的暗示和伏笔。作者在处理宏大背景与个体命运之间的关系上,展现了非凡的功力。我们看到的不仅仅是一个人的故事,更是一个时代剪影,是社会结构下人性被扭曲、被重塑的过程。我尤其赞赏作者对于哲学思辨的融入,那些关于自由意志、牺牲与救赎的探讨,并非生硬地塞入,而是自然地渗透在角色的一言一行、一念之间,让人在阅读紧张情节的同时,也能获得智力上的满足感。这本书的文字密度很高,初读时可能需要回味,但正是这种密度,赋予了文字深厚的重量感和持久的回味空间,绝对不是那种读完就忘的快餐文学。
评分这本小说简直是场盛宴!作者的笔触如同最细腻的丝绸,轻轻拂过读者的心弦,勾勒出的世界充满了令人窒息的美感与暗流涌动的危险。故事的开篇就抓住了我的眼球,那种扑面而来的宿命感,让人忍不住想一探究竟。我特别欣赏作者对于人物内心挣扎的刻画,那种在道德边缘徘徊的恐惧与渴望,被描绘得淋漓尽致,仿佛我就是那个深陷泥潭的主角。那些复杂的、充满矛盾的情感纠葛,处理得极为高明,没有落入俗套的狗血,反而散发出一种成熟的、令人深思的魅力。更不用说那些场景描写,简直是身临其境,无论是华丽的社交场合,还是幽暗逼仄的秘密角落,都栩栩如生地呈现在眼前,让人恨不得跳进书里亲自去感受一番。情节的推进张弛有度,高潮迭起,每一个转折都出乎意料却又合乎情理,读完之后,心中久久不能平静,只剩下对后续发展的强烈好奇和一丝丝被文字震撼的疲惫感,绝对是一次酣畅淋漓的阅读体验。
评分从纯粹的叙事技巧上来说,这本书简直是一部教科书级别的示范。作者对时间线的掌控,如同一个技艺高超的魔术师,时而快进,时而慢放,甚至玩起了倒叙和插叙的交叉对比,但每一次切换都服务于最终的叙事目的,衔接得天衣无缝,没有丝毫跳跃感。我尤其钟爱那些充满象征意义的细节设置,它们像散落在棋盘上的关键棋子,起初似乎毫不相关,但随着故事深入,它们的功能性便被凸显出来,揭示出更深层次的寓意。这种精心的结构设计,让我在解读文本时充满了乐趣,仿佛在玩一场高智商的解谜游戏。整体的基调是沉郁而富有诗意的,即使是最残酷的场景,也被一种独特的、近乎古典的美学包裹着,营造出一种独特的、令人沉醉的阅读氛围,读完后,感觉像是经历了一场漫长而深刻的洗礼。
评分这本书的魅力在于它的“不完美性”,它拒绝提供廉价的安慰和标准化的结局。我喜欢作者敢于描绘人性中最阴暗、最不堪的那一面,那种赤裸裸的真实感,让人感到不安,却又不得不承认,这才是生活的一部分。书中的反派角色塑造得尤其成功,他们不是扁平化的邪恶符号,而是有着自己逻辑和痛苦的个体,让人在痛恨之余,甚至能产生一丝微弱的同情,这种复杂的情感拉扯,是区分平庸作品和杰作的关键。阅读过程中,我常常停下来,反复咀嚼某些段落,思考角色为何会做出那样的选择,那种深度的代入感和自我反思,是很少有书籍能给予的。它迫使你去审视自己的价值观,去质疑那些你一直坚信不疑的“常识”。这是一本需要用心去“感受”而不是仅仅用眼睛“扫过”的书。
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