Book Description Literary short stories. About the Author Robert Schirmer’s short-story collection Living with Strangers won the Bobst Award for Emerging Writers and was published by NYU Press. He’s been the recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize, as well as fellowships from the Chesterfield Film Company’s Writer’s Film Project and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Recently he completed a novel and a second collection of stories. Michelle Richmond is the author of the novel Dream of the Blue Room (2003), and The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001), a collection which won the AWP Award for Short Fiction. A native of Alabama and a former James Michener Fellow, she lives in Northern California and teaches in the MFA program in writing at the University of San Francisco. Her stories and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. Robert Olen Butler has published ten novels, most recently Fair Warning (2002) and Mr. Spaceman (2000), and two volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His new book of stories, Had a Good Time, based on his collection of antique picture postcards, will be published in August 2004. A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a National Magazine Award for Fiction. He directs the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University. Jenni Lapidus received a special mention in the 2002 Pushcart Prize and was nominated for the 2003 Pushcart Prize. She has published stories in Hampton Shorts, Literal Latte, and Happy, and was a finalist in Glimmer Train Stories’ Very Short Fiction Contest. She is at work on her first novel. Jennifer Tseng received her MA in Asian-American Studies from UCLA, her MFA from University of Houston, and was twice a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, and Ploughshares, and is forthcoming in Grand Street. "The Words Honey and Moon" is an excerpt from Woo, her novel-in-progress. Lucy Honig’s collection, The Truly Needy and Other Stories, won the 1999 Drue Heinz Prize and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Another collection, Open Season, was published in 2002 by Scala House. She teaches in the graduate program in international health at Boston University’s School of Public Health. Paul Michel was born in Philadelphia, grew up mostly in Ohio, and now lives in Seattle. He is a graduate of Kenyon College and of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. His stories and poetry have appeared in Anthology, Crania, Fan, the Red Rock Review, and the Best of Rosebud. "Say to the Waves" won first place in the Writers Workshop 2001 Fiction Contest. Bruce Machart’s fiction has appeared in Story, Zoetrope, Five Points, and elsewhere. A graduate of the MFA program at Ohio State University, he has since been awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Frank O’Connor Prize from descant magazine, and an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Machart’s first published story appeared in Glimmer Train in 1998. Mary Gordon has been a greatly admired novelist since the popular and critical success of her first novel, Final Payments, in 1978. She has continued to win the attention and respect of critics and the gratitude of an appreciative public with subsequent books. She is the author of five novels, three novellas, a volume of short stories, a book of essays, two memoirs, and a biography of Joan of Arc. Gordon is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of Writing at Barnard College and also teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Her awards include the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best novel written by an Americ
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读完这本合集,我有一种被带到了一系列陌生而又奇异的梦境中穿梭的感觉,它成功地在现实的肌理中撕开了一个口子,露出了更深层、更具象征意义的景象。作者的语言风格是如此的独特,充满了奇特的比喻和出乎意料的句式组合,初读时可能会觉得有些晦涩,但一旦适应了这种节奏,就会发现其中蕴含着巨大的能量。特别欣赏作者对“时间”的处理方式,它不是线性的流淌,而是在故事中不断地折叠、跳跃、甚至逆流。在其中一篇关于家族秘密的故事里,过去和现在仿佛同时存在于一个房间里,对话在不同的时间维度间无缝切换,那种叙事上的大胆尝试,在当代短篇小说中是相当罕见的。这并不是那种可以轻松阅读,边喝咖啡边消磨时间的读物;它需要你全神贯注,甚至需要你时不时地停下来,在脑海中重组那些被故意打散的碎片。对于追求文学实验性和非传统叙事结构的读者来说,这本书无疑是一次极佳的体验,它挑战了你对“故事应该如何讲述”的固有认知。它更像是一部用文字编织而成的抽象画作,每一笔触都充满张力。
评分从整体上看,这套短篇故事集的统一性非常高,它们共同营造出一种略带疏离感的、观察者视角下的现代社会景观。作者似乎对“边缘人物”有着特别的偏爱,那些游走在社会规范边缘、不被主流理解的角色构成了故事的核心。令人称赞的是,作者并未将这些人物简单地标签化为“异类”,而是深刻挖掘了他们行为背后的合理性与痛苦。有几篇作品以极其克制的笔触,描写了孤独感的不同层次:有的是环境造成的物理隔离,有的是精神层面的无法沟通,最让我心痛的是那种“身处人群却形单影只”的孤独,描绘得入木三分,几乎让人感同身受。这本书的语言风格是那种内敛的、精准的,很少有华丽的辞藻堆砌,更多的是通过精确的名词和动词,勾勒出场景的本质。它不动声色地揭示了人与人之间那种薄如蝉翼的联系,一旦被触碰就会破裂。阅读体验是沉静而深刻的,它不会用强烈的戏剧冲突来吸引你,而是通过持续积累的微小张力,让你在不知不觉中被拽入故事的深渊。这是一次对当代人类存在状态的深刻、略带忧郁的审视。
评分这本精选集简直是短篇小说的饕餮盛宴,每一篇故事都像一颗打磨得恰到好处的宝石,折射出人性的幽微与复杂。我尤其喜欢作者对环境细节的描摹,那种细腻入微,几乎能让你嗅到故事发生地的气味。比如有一篇关于某个偏远小镇的故事,描绘了当地特有的潮湿空气和被遗忘的木制建筑,那种略带霉味的真实感,瞬间把我拉进了那个时间仿佛停滞不前的地方。叙事节奏的处理也极其高明,有时候缓慢得像一首挽歌,让你沉浸在人物的内心挣扎中无法自拔;而另一些篇章则像突然加速的列车,在关键时刻猛地抛出一个令人措手不及的转折,让你合上书页后久久不能平复。 几位主角的塑造更是令人印象深刻,他们都不是传统意义上的“好人”或“坏人”,而是充满了矛盾和灰色地带的个体。他们的选择往往艰难而充满代价,让人在阅读的过程中不断反思自己的道德边界。有一次,我不得不放下书,走到窗边静静地站了十分钟,只是为了消化其中一个人物在面对背叛时那种近乎麻木的平静。这本书没有提供廉价的答案或简单的和解,它只是忠实地呈现了生活本来的面貌——混乱、美丽、常常令人心碎。这是一次文学上的深度潜水,绝对值得反复品读,每次都会发现新的暗流。
评分我对这套精选集最深刻的感受是它的“冷峻的诗意”。它毫不留情地揭示了日常生活中那些被我们忽略的、微不足道的痛苦和疏离感,但笔触却又异常优美,形成了一种强烈的反差张力。例如,其中一篇描写城市通勤者的故事,对那种日复一日的机械化生存状态的刻画,简直是入木三分,那些关于地铁里乘客面无表情的细节描写,让人不寒而栗地意识到我们可能都在不知不觉中被现代生活异化了。然而,即便是最沉重的场景,作者也会穿插一些近乎古典主义的、令人屏息的美丽意象——或许是一束午后的阳光穿过尘埃,或许是雨滴落在某种特定材质上的声响。这种对美与丑、光明与黑暗的并置,让故事的冲击力倍增。这本书的文学价值体现在它对人类情感的极度精准捕捉上,它捕捉的不是那些宏大的激情,而是那些细微的、几乎无法言说的尴尬、遗憾和未竟的渴望。读完后,你可能会发现自己对身边的人和事多了一层更细致的观察,世界似乎也因此变得更加立体和复杂起来。
评分如果用一个词来概括这本选集给我的感觉,那就是“结构精妙的迷宫”。每一篇故事似乎都遵循着某种内在的、不为人知的逻辑运行着,你必须跟随着作者的引导才能找到出口,但讽刺的是,即使到达了所谓的“结局”,你可能还是会觉得自己在原地转了一圈,因为故事的意义往往隐藏在迷宫的墙壁而非终点本身。 我特别欣赏作者在处理视角转换上的老练。有几篇故事采用了多重叙事者,每个人的声音都极其清晰可辨,他们的立场和偏见交织在一起,构建出一个完整却又充满裂痕的真相。这种手法要求读者必须积极地参与到意义的构建过程中去,你不能只是被动地接受信息,而需要不断地去权衡,去质疑叙述者是否可靠。这使得阅读体验从单纯的消遣升华为一种智力上的挑战和乐趣。那些关于记忆、身份认同和虚构历史的故事尤其出色,它们巧妙地模糊了事实与想象的界限,让我不禁开始怀疑自己对某些往事的记忆是否也经过了艺术加工。对于喜欢解构主义叙事和文本互文性的读者来说,这绝对是一本可以反复“拆解”的宝藏。
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