Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. She currently lives in Atlanta with her husband and daughter. This is her first novel.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
我们中的很大一部分人曾想过自己写一部小说,在一次又一次失败过后,就开始一部接一部地读别人的小说,读越来越厚的小说,仿佛心甘情愿被陌生的故事榨干自己的时间。 我们的愿望只剩下可怜巴巴的一个,希望手里的这个故事被讲的简单动听。 有些人写到八十岁第九十本书时才明白...
评分花了一个下午和一个晚上把这本书一气呵成的看完了。入夜后闭上双眼,仿佛仍沉浸其中。 这是一个怎样的故事?简单来说,就是一个白人小姐和两个黑人女佣不顾艰难险阻,勇敢写就《女佣》一书的故事。 艾碧莲、明尼、小雯、西丽、希莉亚、伊丽莎白……这些女人们扮演着不同的角...
评分1960年,美国密西西比州首府杰克逊市,三位女性口述她们的日常生活,两位黑人女佣,一位白人小姐。即使站在今天回望,这个女声三重唱的组合也不同寻常。 密西西比河水滔滔流淌,“老人河”低沉哀伤的歌声,诉说着几个世纪以来黑色人种在这片丰饶土地上遭受的不幸。根深蒂固的种...
评分我觉得,所有现实主义作品都是在重申常识,而最基本的常识可以概括为:爱心,正义,善良。看上去挺简单,但我敢说,人生短暂,大部分人终其一生也未必能够搞清楚这三件常识。恐怕有史以来打着正义旗号的恶行罄竹难书—谁会大声宣布自己是在作恶呢?而愚蠢的善行也给世界带来许...
评分我们中的很大一部分人曾想过自己写一部小说,在一次又一次失败过后,就开始一部接一部地读别人的小说,读越来越厚的小说,仿佛心甘情愿被陌生的故事榨干自己的时间。 我们的愿望只剩下可怜巴巴的一个,希望手里的这个故事被讲的简单动听。 有些人写到八十岁第九十本书时才明白...
Sista, there's still courage n' love .
评分被折磨,被感动,被震撼——虽其实是小小的故事。
评分如果按原著的标准,电影剧本的改编算是很失败的。本来明明可以更有时代感更有冲突性更饱满而强韧的。Skeeter遗失装稿子的手袋,乡村俱乐部对质,KKK夜袭事件,教堂集会,Aibileen向Yule提出邀约,这些都是背景或细节上的关键,不但雕塑了人物个性,也更强调change的必要性,将心动化为行动的勇气。倒是skeeter的爱情戏可以删,Yule向Hilly借贷的情节也完全可以带过。电影将时代风云变成了众女仆为私意团结起来打倒Hilly这个大boss的过程,格局立刻变得很小。改编得太小家了。
评分by offering a meticulously etched portrait of two separate-and-yet-somehow-connected communities in the southern American on the cusp of the historic Civil Rights movement, it makes me weep a little while finishing the reading, for I can truly feel the story of interracial sisterhood is told from inside, in awakening to the demise of discriminatory
评分很久没有读过这样全篇酸爽的小说了。矛盾冲突多样,人物形象丰满,近几年读的小说中很少有如此赞的。电影改编不尽如人意,建议读原著,你会明白我在说什么。貌似上海译文出版社有中文版。
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