约翰·欧文(John Irving),被美国文坛泰斗冯内古特喻为“美国最重要的幽默作家”,是当代最知名的小说家之一,他作品中所呈现的高超的说故事技巧与优美的文学性,使人们常将他与狄更斯和J. D. 塞林格等重量级小说家相提并论。他的小说不仅赢得书评界的一致推崇,而且叫好又叫座,是西方最畅销的小说家之一。
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels."
So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Son of the Circus and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
"Like Garp, [THE HOTEL NEW HAMPSHIRE] is a startlingly original family saga that combines macabre humor with Dickensian sentiment and outrage at cruelty, dogmatism and injustice."
--Time
"Rejoice! John Irving has written another book according to your world....You must read this book."
--Los Angeles Times
"Spellbinding...Intensely human...A high-wire act of dazzling virtuosity."
--Cosmopolitan
文/夏丽柠 在美国文坛,小说家约翰·欧文很“抢眼”。虽然欧文从小就是个阅读困难症患者,但写出来的小说却情节曲折、语言幽默。可我不是因此喜欢他的作品,而是迷恋他笔下的“熊”! 欧文以写“熊”起家。1968年发表的处女作,就叫《将熊释放》。我手上这本,是他于1981年创作...
评分二零零二年冬天,美国文坛巨匠约翰·欧文即将六十一岁时,一名三十九岁的男子联系他,自称是他同父异母的弟弟。他们很快见了面。见面后,两个人久久没有说话,只是紧盯着彼此:约翰·欧文眼前这位陌生人和欧文自己的大儿子几乎同龄,相貌酷似;而对方则在头发花白的欧文身上,...
评分 评分我想唱的歌,至今未曾唱出,我活在与它相会的希望之中,但这相会尚未到来。 读完新罕布什尔旅馆,这是最先想到的话。(不记得哪里看到的了。也不确定是否准确。) 旅馆里的每一个人,终其一生,都未曾与自己想唱的歌相会。但是正如书最后所说:巴布教练始终都明白,你必须择善...
评分“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.” “Keep passing the open windows.” “You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.” “Safer than we are.” I tol...
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