Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize
“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families, in that the stories they tell themselves reveal only part of the picture. Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter, and celebrations, but also jealousies, disappointments, and carefully guarded secrets. From Red’s father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red’s grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century, here are four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their anchor.
Brimming with all the insight, humor, and generosity of spirit that are the hallmarks of Anne Tyler’s work, A Spool of Blue Thread tells a poignant yet unsentimental story in praise of family in all its emotional complexity. It is a novel to cherish.
Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. This is her 17th novel. Her 11th, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. A member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
2015.4.17 A Spool of Blue Thread -Anne Tyler 可读性4星 难度1星 5天时间 感触一个美国中产大家庭三代人的变迁 平实的话语 平淡的情节 却感受到不平凡的家庭亲情 没有出轨 没有凶杀 正如这个恬淡慵懒的春日 让人做了几日好梦。
評分2015.4.17 A Spool of Blue Thread -Anne Tyler 可读性4星 难度1星 5天时间 感触一个美国中产大家庭三代人的变迁 平实的话语 平淡的情节 却感受到不平凡的家庭亲情 没有出轨 没有凶杀 正如这个恬淡慵懒的春日 让人做了几日好梦。
評分2015.4.17 A Spool of Blue Thread -Anne Tyler 可读性4星 难度1星 5天时间 感触一个美国中产大家庭三代人的变迁 平实的话语 平淡的情节 却感受到不平凡的家庭亲情 没有出轨 没有凶杀 正如这个恬淡慵懒的春日 让人做了几日好梦。
評分2015.4.17 A Spool of Blue Thread -Anne Tyler 可读性4星 难度1星 5天时间 感触一个美国中产大家庭三代人的变迁 平实的话语 平淡的情节 却感受到不平凡的家庭亲情 没有出轨 没有凶杀 正如这个恬淡慵懒的春日 让人做了几日好梦。
評分2015.4.17 A Spool of Blue Thread -Anne Tyler 可读性4星 难度1星 5天时间 感触一个美国中产大家庭三代人的变迁 平实的话语 平淡的情节 却感受到不平凡的家庭亲情 没有出轨 没有凶杀 正如这个恬淡慵懒的春日 让人做了几日好梦。
美國傢庭小說,描述三代人的故事片斷
评分近期讀的最好的一本小說。關於一個美國傢庭的生活變遷,語言平實,生活化又能在細微處擊中內心。親子關係,婆媳關係等等大傢庭的糾葛全世界都是一樣的,完全沒有文化差異嘛!◑▂◑
评分這書最齣彩的就是第一部分結束的時候。 Lenie 的愛情根本不是她說的那個樣子…勇敢的妹子。 這裏麵的女人都很強,負責,勤勞,照顧傢人。即使是沒有孩子的Merrick也活的有聲有色。男人看著難受,Danny就不能好好生活經常迴傢看看?Aby對所有人都好即使是陌生人。
评分a relaxing book great for the winter break with wine, or coffee, or tea, or anything that makes you veg out
评分Family is all we got...
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