From Publishers Weekly Josephine Josie Flynn is a latter-day Bridget Jones, but without the cuteness, the sardonic humor or the wry introspection that made Ms. Jones so lovable (and her story so profitable). In this novel by bestselling English author Matthews, Josie is newly single and en route from London to her American cousin's wedding in New York, when she meets Matt Jarvis, an aspiring rock journalist who captures her attention and asks for a date as soon as their plane touches down. When they just miss each other at the appointed restaurant, madness ensues as Josie's ex-husband decides to jet to the wedding to win her back, and Matt becomes entangled with a publicist for a regrettable boy band, which covers the Beatles but doesn't even know who they were. There are moments of comedy and others of introspection in Matthews's book about the single life and how singletons strive to overcome their lot (often, it seems, by attending weddings, even ones to which they haven't been invited). Despite some humorous inventions (such as the Conversation Termination Sequence, an escape hatch from endless phone calls with her bodily functions¤obsessed mother) and melancholy revelations ( somehow she was going to have to let the barriers down again, otherwise no one would ever get inside her protective shell to find the real Josie hiding there ), Matthews mostly fails to mine a deeper meaning from the characters and situations she creates as she entertains her readers with serendipitous trysts and near-misses. Still, Josie, unlike Bridget, never carps about her weight, and for that women readers can be thankful. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal The cute journalist sitting next to her on the flight from London to New York is exactly what Josie Flynn needs to take her mind off her cheating ex-husband and her mother's I-told-you-so's. When he shares his own divorce story, buys her a drink, and invites her to dinner in New York, she feels pretty smug about the way her life is looking up. Then he doesn't show for the date, the wedding Josie is attending turns into a fiasco, and her ex-husband flies in from London to try to charm her back. And that doesn't include what happens to the cute guy when he tries to track her down in New York with no more information than a bride's first name. British author Matthews makes her American debut with this light, funny novel. A natural for the beach, it will charm Bridget Jones fans on both sides of the Atlantic; film rights have already been sold. Patrons will want to be first in line to read this one. Recommended for all public libraries. Kim Uden Rutter, Lake Villa Dist. Lib., ILCopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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我向来不太喜欢那些动辄就将人物塑造成完美受害者的故事,但这部作品却巧妙地规避了这一点。这里的每一个角色,无论他们遭受了怎样的不公或痛苦,他们身上都带着自身的“原罪”——可能是软弱、可能是自私、也可能是对现实的逃避。作者展现的是一种残酷的平衡,即生活中的苦难往往是内外因素共同作用的结果。这种对人性不加粉饰的呈现,让我感到既痛苦又释然。痛苦在于,它撕碎了我们对“美好结局”的幻想;释然在于,它承认了人性的缺陷是构成真实生活的重要组成部分。此外,这本书在处理道德困境时展现出的克制,令人印象深刻。它不急于审判,而是将场景铺陈开来,让读者自己去扮演那个无力的仲裁者。最终,你会发现,对于某些深刻的伤害,根本就没有一个干净的解决方案,有的只是带着伤痕继续前行。这是一部关于韧性与妥协的深刻寓言。
评分说实话,这本书的叙事结构有点挑战性,初看之下可能会觉得线索有些散乱,但只要咬住不放,坚持读下去,你会发现作者的高明之处。它采用了非线性的时间跳跃,将过去发生的事情像碎片一样散落在当前的故事线中,而我们作为读者,就像一个拿着拼图的侦探,需要自己去将这些碎片重新组合,还原出完整的图景。这种阅读体验是主动的、充满参与感的,远非被动接受信息可以比拟。我特别喜欢作者在描绘环境时的那种冷峻的笔调,那些城市街景、昏暗的房间,它们不只是背景,它们本身就是角色,共同参与了这场情感的拉锯战。那些关于“承诺”与“背叛”的探讨,没有宏大的哲学口号,而是通过一些极其生活化、甚至琐碎的日常事件来体现的,比如一顿没吃完的晚餐、一句没接通的电话,这些小小的细节汇聚成的力量,比任何戏剧性的冲突都更具毁灭性。这是一部需要静下心来,带着思考去品味的文学作品,绝非茶余饭后的消遣之选。
评分这本书给我的整体感觉,就像是走进了一个精心布置的迷宫,你以为找到了出口,结果只是进入了另一个更深的循环。它非常擅长营造一种挥之不去的“不确定感”。你永远无法完全确定你所阅读的叙述者是否可靠,他们所描述的事件是否完全属实,这种叙事上的刻意模糊,使得阅读过程充满了悬念,但这种悬念不是基于情节的反转,而是基于对人性深度的探索。作者对人物内心世界的挖掘,简直是“挖地三尺”的深度,那些潜意识中的恐惧、被压抑的欲望,都在不经意间通过一些细微的动作或梦境片段暴露出来。对于那些追求高智商文学、喜欢挖掘文本深层含义的读者来说,这本书绝对是一场盛宴。我强烈推荐搭配一杯浓黑的咖啡来阅读,因为你需要那种清醒的刺激来跟上作者层层递进的逻辑陷阱。
评分这部作品初读时,那种扑面而来的、近乎刺骨的真实感,让我的心绪久久不能平复。作者似乎有着一种近乎残酷的洞察力,将人际关系中最微妙、最容易被忽略的那些裂痕,用极其细腻的笔触一一解剖开来。故事的节奏掌控得非常老道,它并非那种一蹴而就的爆发,而是像慢火熬煮的老汤,每翻过一页,那些人物的困境和挣扎就更深一分。尤其欣赏它对“选择”这个主题的处理,它没有给出任何廉价的答案或简单的对错判断,而是将每一个抉择的重量,实实在在地压在了读者的心头。我常常在阅读时停下来,对着那些对话场景反复咀嚼,里面的每一句话都仿佛带着言外之意,那种人与人之间微妙的试探、保护壳的松动与重新筑起,简直是教科书级别的展现。整体而言,它像一面打磨光滑的镜子,照见的不仅仅是角色的命运,更是我们每个人内心深处那些不愿触碰的角落。读完后,我花了整整一天的时间才从那种情绪的余韵中抽离出来,这部书的后劲实在太大了。
评分从文学性的角度来审视,这部作品的语言功力达到了令人惊叹的水平。它摒弃了花哨的辞藻堆砌,转而追求一种精准而有力的表达。作者的句子结构往往简洁有力,但在最关键的情感爆发点,笔锋又会变得极其繁复和富有层次感,仿佛用最少的墨水,却勾勒出了最复杂的水墨画意境。我尤其留意了其中对于“沉默”的描写,在很多本应有激烈争吵的场景中,作者选择了让人物保持沉默,然而这些沉默却比任何呐喊都更具穿透力。那种“此时无声胜有声”的张力,把人物内心的波涛汹涌刻画得入木三分。它探讨的议题,比如身份认同的迷失与重构,也处理得非常成熟,没有落入二元对立的窠臼,而是展现了人性的复杂光谱。看完之后,我甚至开始反思自己日常交流中,那些被我们习以为常的语言习惯,是否也同样隐藏着未被察觉的误解和疏离。
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