Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout's fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar details—the mother-of-the-groom's wedding dress, a grandmother's disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raised—the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than Incoming Tide, where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all three struggling with their own misgivings about life. Like this story, the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout. (Apr.)
海岸,平静的克劳斯比小镇,脾气暴躁的奥丽芙·基特里奇有一个“好好先生”式的丈夫和一个与她日渐疏远的儿子,生活看上去水波不兴,却有股股暗流涌动。 在镇上,奥丽芙也有意无意地充当了其他人生命中的过客:一个想自杀的忧郁青年,一个患上厌食症的年轻女孩,一个数年如一日...
评分“多么疯狂、无稽、不可理喻的世界!看,她多么想活下去,她多么想坚持挺住”。 从前在家的时候妈妈把各种吃食端到眼前头都要挑挑拣拣,很有那种小姐身子丫鬟命的难缠刻薄相,后来自己一个人在外却经常半夜忽然觉得饿,那种饥饿感的作祟让人忘了所有关于减肥关于正常作息健康...
评分 评分“多么疯狂、无稽、不可理喻的世界!看,她多么想活下去,她多么想坚持挺住”。 从前在家的时候妈妈把各种吃食端到眼前头都要挑挑拣拣,很有那种小姐身子丫鬟命的难缠刻薄相,后来自己一个人在外却经常半夜忽然觉得饿,那种饥饿感的作祟让人忘了所有关于减肥关于正常作息健康...
评分“多么疯狂、无稽、不可理喻的世界!看,她多么想活下去,她多么想坚持挺住”。 从前在家的时候妈妈把各种吃食端到眼前头都要挑挑拣拣,很有那种小姐身子丫鬟命的难缠刻薄相,后来自己一个人在外却经常半夜忽然觉得饿,那种饥饿感的作祟让人忘了所有关于减肥关于正常作息健康...
不动声色又极为敏锐地捕捉了最为细腻微妙的感情,惆怅、伤感、刺痛、枉然……最令人感动的,是自始至终的隐约温柔和含蓄留白,以及在磨难和悲伤之中对爱的坚持和尊重。这种短篇构成长篇的结构也带来感觉奇妙的时间线,好像人生不停倒带时而又快进,因而很容易产生物是人非的唏嘘感,旁观者的孤独铺天盖地。
评分文笔细腻,气息也不错,就是觉得太琐碎,读一点就停了。
评分短篇组成的长篇,片段组成的生活,并希望由此看到痛苦、遗憾和隔阂的原因,我们为何如此生活?有几篇极为有力,结尾虽然感人,但是还是弱了些,更让人感到有些无奈。
评分both fool and sage.
评分三觀的各種認可 但不喜歡結尾夕陽紅橋段
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