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发表于2025-03-22
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.
Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
"if you are lucky you won't hit love in the face"
评分格言式写作一度让我打问号?哪有那么多真理。但是A tough life needs tough language,明白了。
评分这本书每一章内的情绪转折都很大,从极度的抑郁,忽然借由几句诗或几句引语而转向释然。只是这种豁然开朗颇不自然。我只能说,这转折之间有太多东西她没有讲。正如她自己所说,在人的内部,时间并不是直线的,所有的情绪可以通过所有经历的事情一起涌来。我想她只是做了筛选,讲了她觉得能讲的事。
评分我爱这一本远胜于她那本有名的oranges are not the only fruit...这本写得好多了?还是说只是我习惯了
评分写作的人总不能自免地追溯自己的来处,从族谱开始,从地方志开始,从图书馆的字母A开始,虽然残忍但前半本真的好看,Accrington也成为她的文学地标,一个弃儿可以在文学史上找到所有的对照与象征,赋予自身意义,只有被锁在门外台阶上的长久静坐才让天上久远清冷的星子份外真切,自己也是追寻归途者之一,水流过无数遍故事版本重塑过无数遍,它经受各种变形,shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy,虚构撞击现实。最后的最后,JW也终于坦诚,如果她未曾被遗弃被错领,她会有另一个版本的自己——一个被爱的工人阶级的孩子,一大家子人,没有人强迫你变成世俗模子也没有机会接受教育,也就有可能不会有伤痛残缺激发巨大的潜能与热情,故事不再特别,甚至没有故事可说。
生活中,会有许多人不懂得如何用言语来表达自己内心的真实想法;当你爱一个人的时候,你是否不知道怎么将自己内心真正的情愫表达出来?当你被人冤枉的时候,你是否找不到一个更好的措词来为自己辨解?当你想让对方重视或关注你的时候,你是否不懂得如何去获取对方对你的注视?...
评分Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025