科蒂斯·希登费尔德,美国著名的才女型作家,一九七六年出生,十六岁时便在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年,她又赢得了《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛。她的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上,还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员,曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
能找到那么简单封面的书不多了。这种情节,若是放到国内,一定会被醒目地注上:叛逆少女的青春或是别的一些什么让人远离的字。所以挑中了以后,翻开了。 无疑莉是个敏感的女孩,就像我最开始的寄宿生涯一样多疑与惊慌。而我却只想说一些关于她与克劳斯。 奥尔特校园里...
评分中午十二点醒来,花了三个小时看完剩下的三分之一本《奥尔特校园手记》。如今来说说心里的感想吧。 它是一个很难综合性地评分的书。首先,它是我这些日子以来很少有的一本——感到自己很幸运遇到了并买下来的书,有时候这种书在事后让我觉得甚至有点后怕——如果我没有遇到它...
评分很喜欢这种校园文,尽管这是本“美国校园文”,很喜欢学生时代的那种感觉,可能也是因为我的学生时代已经一去不复返了。所以在读这本书的时候,不仅是有想知道莉在这个学校里面都发生了什么事的好奇,还有对于自己的学生时代的怀念和感慨,唤起了以前的憧憬——对于学生时代纯...
评分很喜欢这种校园文,尽管这是本“美国校园文”,很喜欢学生时代的那种感觉,可能也是因为我的学生时代已经一去不复返了。所以在读这本书的时候,不仅是有想知道莉在这个学校里面都发生了什么事的好奇,还有对于自己的学生时代的怀念和感慨,唤起了以前的憧憬——对于学生时代纯...
评分突然翻到几年前中二少女时候写的一些东西,这本书应该是最喜欢读的吧。真的写到了自己的心坎里面了。 ————手动分割线 撕下那张印着巨大“美国梦”字体的招贴画,恍惚看到莉·斐奥拉在对我笑。 我想问她有关她的真实想法,可我知道她很敏感,于是我还是低头不语。 好像没有...
[English version] High school memories, or more precisely - high school feelings, rushed back. Feeling peripheral, experiencing heartbreak, longing to be wanted and needed, growing up is an universal agony. And as pointed out by Sittenfeld, the fact that you make peace with your being different, is the signal of adulthood.
评分过于清晰的世界
评分过于清晰的世界
评分[English version] High school memories, or more precisely - high school feelings, rushed back. Feeling peripheral, experiencing heartbreak, longing to be wanted and needed, growing up is an universal agony. And as pointed out by Sittenfeld, the fact that you make peace with your being different, is the signal of adulthood.
评分这个月的睡前催眠本
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