Richard Yates (February 3, 1926 – November 7, 1992) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a chronicler of mid-20th century mainstream American life, often cited as artistically residing somewhere between J.D. Salinger and John Cheever. He is regarded as the foremost novelist of the post-WWII Age of Anxiety.
The famous opening line of the novel warns of the bleak narrative to follow, "Neither of the Grimes sisters would have a happy life, and looking back it always seemed that the trouble began with their parents’ divorce." Emily and Sarah Grimes are sisters who share little in terms of character but much in terms of disappointment with their lives. Emily, the more intellectual and cosmopolitan of the two, seeks love in numerous disappointing affairs and short-term relationships while Sarah, the prettier and more conventional sister, marries young and bears children to an uncouth and abusive husband. Their troubled, rootless mother, Pookie, like many Yatesian matriarchs, is likely modeled on his own mother, who was nicknamed "Dookie". The novel, beginning in the 1930s when the sisters are children and ending in the 1970s with Sarah's death, primarily revolves around Emily as the book's central character, though the book employs Yates' characteristic and seamless shifts of consciousness throughout.
在去鼓浪屿的途中读了这本书。读后我把书留在了返程的飞机上。回到家,回到妈妈身边让她紧紧抱着我,还好这世上还有一个人真心关心我。我不要孤独。 这本小说的叙述方式是平铺直述的,象似毫无波澜,但实际上是直扣人的内心深处,毫不留情。他不给你答案,不给你希...
评分耶茨总爱写这样的女文青:受过一定的教育,想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿,又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April,这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了?作为丈夫的杰克,就算无功,...
评分耶茨总爱写这样的女文青:受过一定的教育,想成为知识分子或艺术家却始终未能如愿,又因为不甘于普通人的生活和感情而经历诸多情感和家庭上的不幸。 例如《革命之路》中的April,这种女的总给人“做”的感觉。中产阶级的郊区生活怎么就令她窒息了?作为丈夫的杰克,就算无功,...
评分读这本书在很早以前,一直想写点什么却不知如何下笔。尽管人种国籍生活的年代所受的教育如此不同,但是我一眼就认定了艾米莉是同类,我们一样是成人世界的小学生,永远也毕不了业。 1、经常被说高智商低情商。 2、和刚认识的人也能相处得很好,但是时间久了也还是那个程度。和...
伤感
评分the last chapter makes me very emotional.. is women's strength really so?
评分伤感
评分the last chapter makes me very emotional.. is women's strength really so?
评分the last chapter makes me very emotional.. is women's strength really so?
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