Judith Guest (born March 29, 1936), in Detroit, Michigan) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
The great-niece of Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), who had been a Poet Laureate of Michigan, Judith Guest graduated from a Detroit High school in 1954 then studied English and psychology at the University of Michigan, graduating with a BA in Education. She taught at a public school for a number of years before making the decision to devote herself full time to completing a novel.
Her first book, Ordinary People, published in 1976, was made into a 1980 film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. This novel, and her two other works, Second Heaven (1982), and Errands (1997) are about adolescent children forced to deal with a crisis in their family. She also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film, Rachel River.
In 1988 she published the mystery, Killing Time in St. Cloud. He most recent book was released in 2004 under the title, The Tarnished Eye : A Novel of Suspense and is loosely based on a true unsolved crime in her native Michigan.
Describes a youth's breakdown and recovery and how it affects his family.
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About a family struggle to heal.
评分三點五星。一個標準美國中産傢庭的故事。他們原本是普通人,一場傢庭災難發生後,他們隻能渴望再次成為普通人。作者的功力還是差瞭一點點,筆下人物距離活生生還差一步。人物視角在父子之間切換,母親不僅沒有視角,連在父子的故事中占比都很小。但我最喜歡母親這個人物,與丈夫兒子不和,便離傢去歐洲遠遊,所有人都給老娘fuck off!cool!
评分About a family struggle to heal.
评分Read it years ago.
评分三點五星。一個標準美國中産傢庭的故事。他們原本是普通人,一場傢庭災難發生後,他們隻能渴望再次成為普通人。作者的功力還是差瞭一點點,筆下人物距離活生生還差一步。人物視角在父子之間切換,母親不僅沒有視角,連在父子的故事中占比都很小。但我最喜歡母親這個人物,與丈夫兒子不和,便離傢去歐洲遠遊,所有人都給老娘fuck off!cool!
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