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发表于2024-11-27
On Beauty pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Truly human, fully ourselves, beautiful," muses a character in Smith's third novel, an intrepid attempt to explore the sad stuff of adult life, 21st century–style: adultery, identity crises and emotional suffocation, interracial and intraracial global conflicts and religious zealotry. Like Smith's smash debut, White Teeth (2000), this work gathers narrative steam from the clash between two radically different families, with a plot that explicitly parallels Howards End. A failed romance between the evangelical son of the messy, liberal Belseys;Howard is Anglo-WASP and Kiki African-American;and the gorgeous daughter of the staid, conservative, Anglo-Caribbean Kipps leads to a soulful, transatlantic understanding between the families' matriarchs, Kiki and Carlene, even as their respective husbands, the art professors Howard and Monty, amass matériel for the culture wars at a fictional Massachusetts university. Meanwhile, Howard and Kiki must deal with Howard's extramarital affair, as their other son, Levi, moves from religion to politics. Everyone theorizes about art, and everyone searches for connections, sexual and otherwise. A very simple but very funny joke;that Howard, a Rembrandt scholar, hates Rembrandt;allows Smith to discourse majestically on some of the master's finest paintings. The articulate portrait of daughter Zora depicts the struggle to incorporate intellectual values into action. The elaborate Forster homage, as well as a too-neat alignment between characters, concerns and foils, threaten Smith's insightful probing of what makes life complicated (and beautiful), but those insights eventually add up. "There is such a shelter in each other," Carlene tells Kiki; it's a take on Forster's "Only Connect;," but one that finds new substance here.
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Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2006
shortlisted for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2005
"Wonderfully funny,An outstanding novelist with a powerful understanding both of what the brain knows and what love knows"
--- the Observer
A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
评分A bit too much like Howards End.....
似乎是去年夏天的某日从view那儿接过那本厚实的On Beauty...一下子就被这本小说的架势给吓住了,当时就立马给view同志打好招呼,基本上,俺最快一年之后还给你吧,做好思想准备。。。 后来,在看完了那本狗屎一样的The Proposal以后,俺终于开始攻读这本砖头一样的美丽小说。...
评分 评分还好,感觉翻译问题不大,读的满顺利的,只有少许别扭之处。我一直要求自己不要轻易因为翻译问而错过1本好书。 另外,作者好年轻啊。
评分似乎是去年夏天的某日从view那儿接过那本厚实的On Beauty...一下子就被这本小说的架势给吓住了,当时就立马给view同志打好招呼,基本上,俺最快一年之后还给你吧,做好思想准备。。。 后来,在看完了那本狗屎一样的The Proposal以后,俺终于开始攻读这本砖头一样的美丽小说。...
评分On Beauty pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024