具体描述
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.
作者简介
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。
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奥尔特校园手记---这是本青春成长小说，对于我这早过青春期的人来说，读它不是很合适，严肃题材的读多了，口味都变重了，需要用轻松的书来调剂下。坦率的说，刚买来这书，对于封面我不是很喜欢，动漫色彩非常重。我非常喜欢英文版那种干净的感觉。 故事讲述一...
评分“我们总是会错误地对待一些人,而在那之后,我们才能从中学会怎样正确地对待其他人。” ——Curtis Sittenfeld （《奥尔特校园手记》简体中文版，人民文学出版社，2006年2月第1版，P264） www.curtissittenfeld.com 这位16岁即赢得小说大赛的女性作者，生于1...
评分果然还是觉得看中国作家的书比较有共鸣。有些时候觉得翻译不能理解，有些翻译得很隐晦，当然肯定也有文化差异的问题，不过觉得有些地方还是应该加上些注释。另外结局让我有些失望，我本以为莉会蜕变，变得坚强而自信，但是我发现到了最后，她似乎没有多大变化，这本书更像是...
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...
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评分我实在是不喜欢这个女主角，特别难弄，怎么别扭怎么来。他们学校里的同学都挺好的好嘛，就她自己一个人瞎折腾！（另外rich kids花样经是多呀，把妹一套套的。我们这儿既不崇文也不尚武，自己魂灵生生紧伐。。
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.
评分抱着非常低的期望，但成为很大的惊喜。低自尊、眼高手低、overly self-conscious的青春期女孩敏感心理刻画入木三分，配以一个如影随形无时无刻笼罩在主人公头顶的主题：如何面对优势文化？如何面对强势文化是每个人在一生中不同阶段总归要面临的问题，它大到是你的出身、阶层、语言、文化，小到你是如何发音你每句话末的尾音。Intersectionality决定每个人总有一种社会属性将她处于劣势地位，而我们大多数人能力却不足以允许自己和这些优势文化彻底分道扬镳，只能在心理层面寻求和解。高中四年里，主人公在这个问题上没有丝毫长进，but why is that so important to be liked?
评分it's kind of like my life back to connecticut. i do miss some pieces from that catholic boarding school, but for the most part, i can't be more glad that i left that place forever, i am fucking free.
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