Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout's fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar details—the mother-of-the-groom's wedding dress, a grandmother's disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raised—the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than Incoming Tide, where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all three struggling with their own misgivings about life. Like this story, the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout. (Apr.)
我对《奥丽芙·基特里奇》这本书的兴趣,最早来自于《三块广告牌》。那是一部质地坚硬的好电影,它让我记住了女主弗兰西斯·麦克多蒙德,电影里的她傲慢固执毒舌到刻薄,个性并不讨喜,但你却会被她不经意间露出的柔软破绽所打动。 我后来发现,她还拍了《奥丽芙·基特里奇》这...
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评分完全不是简介说的那么轻巧。文后读者指导里都是好问题。故事一个叠一个 越来越精妙厚重 从第二个开始入迷 每个都如此精彩 比现实复杂。迷恋????小说尽量还是看原版才地道。一辈子满满的愤怒该如何化解。人生真是一言难尽又舍不得放手。
评分原著的二次曝光要归功于HBO迷你剧的成功。这部长篇平静地讲述着小镇平静生活中的暗流,自私的人、分裂的人、固执的人、孤独的人,它既没有歌颂母爱的伟大,也并非批判中产阶级的软弱,而是用个体命运拼接的美式浮世绘。Olive就是你不合时宜的妈妈,爱你但无法沟通。因为,她可能还没学会爱自己
评分不动声色又极为敏锐地捕捉了最为细腻微妙的感情,惆怅、伤感、刺痛、枉然……最令人感动的,是自始至终的隐约温柔和含蓄留白,以及在磨难和悲伤之中对爱的坚持和尊重。这种短篇构成长篇的结构也带来感觉奇妙的时间线,好像人生不停倒带时而又快进,因而很容易产生物是人非的唏嘘感,旁观者的孤独铺天盖地。
评分真好看。我要自己来翻译一下其中一章《冬日音乐会》(记账)
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