瑪麗·蓋茨基爾 Mary Gaitskill 著有短篇小說集Bad Behavior、長篇小說Two Girls, Fat and Thin,以及短篇小說集Because They Wanted To,此書曾獲一九九八年“美國筆會/福剋納奬”提名。小說與散文散見《紐約客》雜誌、《哈潑雜誌》、《君子雜誌》、《一九九三年美國短篇小說奬》,以及《一九九八年歐亨利奬小說集》。短篇小說《秘書》(Secretary)曾改編為同名電影(颱灣中文片名為《怪咖情緣》)。曾獲古根漢基金會研究奬金。現居紐約,並在雪城大學(Syracuse University)教授創作寫作。
The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and Manhattan in the desperately glittering 1980s, it has the timeless depth and moral power of a fairy tale.
As a teenager on the streets of San Francisco, Alison is discovered by a photographer and swept into the world of fashion-modeling in Paris and Rome. When her career crashes and a love affair ends disastrously, she moves to New York City to build a new life. There she meets Veronica—an older wisecracking eccentric with her own ideas about style, a proofreader who comes to work with a personal “office kit” and a plaque that reads “Still Anal After All These Years.” Improbably, the two women become friends. Their friendship will survive not only Alison’s reentry into the seductive nocturnal realm of fashion, but also Veronica’s terrible descent into the then-uncharted realm of AIDS. The memory of their friendship will continue to haunt Alison years later, when she, too, is aging and ill and is questioning the meaning of what she experienced and who she became during that time.
Masterfully layering time and space, thought and sensation, Mary Gaitskill dazzles the reader with psychological insight and a mystical sense of the soul’s hurtling passage through the world. A novel unlike any other, Veronica is a tour de force about the fragility and mystery of human relationships, the failure of love, and love’s abiding power. It shines on every page with depth of feeling and formal beauty.
小时候,很讨厌在破碎的镜子里看自己,感觉身体被无数片碎玻璃分解,而很多部分看起来都没有那么美好。但是,我知道一块镜子中完整的自己依然美丽。后来,我发现人生亦如此,回首一段一段琐碎的记忆,总有很多的失望、伤心、不完美,但所有智慧的老者回头看自己一生时,发现生...
評分做完萨拉三本书。就开始做《依然美丽》了。似乎还没反应过来。《依然美丽》就做完了。最近一直沉浸其中。受其影响。一如《荆棘之城》一直影响着我一样。 其实,很美很dark,这个词我是想形容萨拉的小说的。但,《依然美丽》也很美很dark。这本书里,艾莉森,薇若妮卡,年轻时...
評分“或许她假装没看到我,也或许她真没看到我。她好像什么都没看到……她双眼空洞,定定看着前方,好像她走在一条空荡的走廊上。” 当十六岁就跷家的艾莉森看到这个美丽而空洞的德国模特的时候,她只晓得用她惊人的语言天分和感知系统描绘出德国女人的气息,...
評分做完萨拉三本书。就开始做《依然美丽》了。似乎还没反应过来。《依然美丽》就做完了。最近一直沉浸其中。受其影响。一如《荆棘之城》一直影响着我一样。 其实,很美很dark,这个词我是想形容萨拉的小说的。但,《依然美丽》也很美很dark。这本书里,艾莉森,薇若妮卡,年轻时...
評分玛丽•盖茨基尔的《依然美丽》,其实更像一个女孩子独自的心灵成长史。它描述了艾莉森的家庭生活,巴黎的短暂模特生涯,赴纽约独立生活的成熟期。在看这本书的过程里,我经常走神,浮想过去,她的文字很有特点,直白,易懂,强烈的女性视角,同时赋予文字另一层感觉,像月...
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