Amazon.com Frequently portrayed as beer-guzzling, duck-shooting, wife-beating bigots, Southern white men don't catch much of a break these days. Yet in Last Days of Dog-Men, Brad Watson manages to portray this much-maligned beast with empathy and insight. Equally important, he also manages to make clear the importance of their dogs--an importance that can cut both ways. In the title story, for example, a man has an affair that's consummated in the foam-rubber pole-vault pad at the local playing field. When his wife finds out, she gets even the surest way she knows how, by having his dog put to sleep. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Dogs, in their simplicity and certainty, have an emotional stature equal to that of the people whose souls they seem to mirror in these eight precisely crafted stories. "Humans," says the narrator of the title story, "are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life... the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned. He is who he is, and his only task is to assert this." This narrator takes up jogging with a greyhound that helps him get back into shape, until his wife has the dog put to sleep, to get back at him for cheating on her. In "The Wake," a highly symbolic, surreal tale, a stray dog's death beneath a man's house coincides with his receipt in the mail of a packing crate that contains his ex-lover, whose accusatory voice confronts him with past mistakes and failures and his tendency, as it were, to let dead dogs lie. "Bill" concerns an octogenarian woman whose main companion, a trembling, almost blind poodle, means more to her than her husband, who's confined to a rest home. Dogs in these enigmatic stories are inextricably linked with human destinies, marking the trajectories of lives, marriages, jobs, secret affairs, divorces. Alabama-based Watson has uncanny insight into canine psychology and, beyond that, into how people project their own emotions, aggression, love and insecurities onto pets and the animal kingdom. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. See all Editorial Reviews
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这本书的语言风格,怎么说呢,有一种独特的、近乎于雕塑般的精准。它不像某些畅销书那样追求华丽的辞藻堆砌,而是用最简洁、最有力的词汇去勾勒出宏大的场景和复杂的情感。我尤其注意到作者在描写人物内心挣扎时所采用的句式结构,那种反复的、略带拗口的节奏感,恰到好处地模仿了心绪不宁时的状态,让人在阅读时仿佛也同步经历了那种纠结与矛盾。这种文字上的“克制”反而爆发出巨大的能量,让每一个意象都显得异常鲜明和持久。它不是那种读完就忘的快餐文学,更像是一件需要细细品味的艺术品,每一次重读都会发现新的纹理和更深层的含义。我很少见到有作品能将如此粗粝的主题,用如此精炼的笔触去描绘,这显示出作者极高的文学素养和对题材的深刻理解。
评分令人印象深刻的是,这本书成功地在“奇幻设定”与“人性探讨”之间找到了一个非常微妙的平衡点。那些超乎寻常的元素,并非仅仅为了增添猎奇色彩,而是作为一种催化剂,将人类最基本、最原始的欲望、恐惧和忠诚,以一种极端化的方式暴露出来。我感受到的不是一个遥远世界的传说,而是一个关于“生存的本质”的寓言。作者没有对角色的道德进行简单的审判,而是将他们置于绝境,观察他们如何做出选择,如何为了生存而扭曲、蜕变,乃至牺牲。这种对人性复杂性的深刻洞察,才是这本书最打动我的地方。它迫使你去面对那些不那么光彩的自我投射,读完后会有一段时间,你可能会审视自己面对压力时的真实反应。
评分我必须强调这本书在“重量感”上的处理。它不仅仅是一个故事,更像是一部记录了某种“终结”与“过渡”的史诗。书中的世界观设定充满了宿命论的色彩,每一个角色的行动似乎都像是被某种古老的契约所驱使,无从逃脱。这种沉重的基调并没有让人感到压抑,反而带来了一种庄严的美感,仿佛在见证一场必然要发生的、宏大而悲壮的仪式。书中对时间流逝的描绘尤为出色,它不是线性的滴答声,而是更像地质变迁,缓慢而不可逆转。这种宏大的尺度感,让普通人的悲欢离合被置于一个更广阔的历史背景之下,读起来让人感到谦卑,也让人对“存续”这一概念产生更深层次的思考。
评分从结构上来看,这部作品的精妙之处在于其多视角的叙事穿插。它不是单一主角的线性推进,而是像一幅由无数碎片拼贴而成的巨大挂毯,每个碎片都来自不同的观察者,带着各自的偏见和局限性。起初,这种跳跃感让人有点难以适应,信息分散,线索隐晦,仿佛在迷雾中摸索。但坚持下去后,你会发现,正是这种碎片化的呈现,构建出了一个更加立体和不可完全被定义的“真相”。作者巧妙地利用了读者的好奇心和推理欲望,让你主动去填补那些空白,去连接那些看似无关的事件。这种“参与式阅读”的体验非常罕见,它要求读者付出更多的专注力,但回报是巨大的——当你最终看到全局图景时,那种豁然开朗的震撼感,是直接灌输的叙事无法比拟的。
评分这本书的氛围营造真是绝了,一开始读就让人仿佛置身于一个充满未知和原始气息的世界。作者对细节的捕捉能力令人惊叹,那种古老而又带着一丝野蛮的生命力,通过文字鲜活地展现出来。读着读着,我几乎能闻到森林里潮湿的泥土味,听到那些低沉的、仿佛来自地心的呼喊。叙事节奏的处理非常老道,时而舒缓得像一首悠长的挽歌,时而又猛地加快,将读者推入一个紧张到令人窒息的境地。这种张弛有度的叙事手法,让故事的层次感非常丰富,每一次翻页都充满了期待,生怕错过任何一个细微的线索。我特别欣赏作者在构建世界观时那种毫不含糊的力度,它不是简单的背景板,而是与角色命运紧密交织的有机体,每一个角落都散发着历史的重量和神秘的吸引力。读完后,那种挥之不去的原始敬畏感,久久地盘桓在心头,让人不禁反思人类文明与自然界之间那条模糊不清的界限。
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