具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
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读后感
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，...
评分从去年读过耶茨之后，我就想为他写一篇书评。如果是为杂志稿写耶茨，我肯定会去仔细查一下他的生平。可我现在不想这样。一个作家需要面对的始终只有他的读者，他的小说就是他的一切。作者要退居到作品之后，尽量不被读者发现自己的影子。若我刻意的去接近作者真实的影像，那就...
评分 评分 评分这本小说讲的是在一个单亲家庭长大的女人一生的故事，这个家庭所导致的结果是使一个弱小的灵魂变成一个勇敢、坚强、理性和独立的人。在这本书中是一个女性，她叫爱米莉。 故事从爱米莉五岁的时候讲起，这时候她的父母已经离婚，爱米莉和姐姐萨拉一起跟着有点神经质又酗酒的母...
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伤感
评分对于非常打动人的作品，有时反而不知该说些什么，说句“我爱XXX（作者）”可能就够了。耶茨写出了女性在社会中的困境——不论她们的具体社会处境如何，所面临的也无非是相当有限的可能性：婚姻、生育、生存、两性关系。这哪里是评论者常说的“失败者”，耶茨写的明明是我们自己，是每天出现在生活中的你我她。因真实而常被我们忽略，因真实而触目惊心。
评分how vain in the end everything had turned out to be.
评分As touching as it is real, as beautiful as it is sad.
评分看啊，看啊，这就是艾米丽的下场，那个无能为力的艾米丽，那个锁住房门，在灰尘的房间里踱步的艾米丽，那个已经五十岁了，可完全不明白生活是些什么东西的艾米丽。铺了一生孤独的路。
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