From Publishers Weekly The opulent interior of the first airliner, the Pan American Clipper, on a transatlantic flight from Southampton, England, to New York in war-darkened 1939, is the setting for Follett's high-flying caper, guaranteed to hold the reader in his seat. Recalling a time when air travel was an exotic adventure, master of epic suspense Follett ( Pillars of the Earth ) spins an excruciatingly taut drama on the aerial equivalent of the Orient Express. Persons unknown kidnap the wife of Clipper engineer Eddie Deakin from their home in Maine in order to force Deakin to maneuver an emergency landing in the choppy waters off Bangor. Apparently the shadowy conspirators plan to remove one of the passengers, an intriguing group who include an FBI agent transporting an extradited mafioso; a Russian princess; a British industrialist chasing his wife and her lover; an American movie star; an Oswald Mosely-like aristocrat turned fascist, his daughter and her lover, a young jewel thief. Details of early aviation firmly establish the cast in their era and a tantalizing mosaic of subplots whisks the reader through a whirlwind of romance and intrigue. Follet soars to a thoroughly satisfying ending with aeronautical precision. This is his best since The Eye of the Needle. Author tour. Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. From AudioFile Follett's early thriller, reminiscent of the 1950s' classic THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY, follows a plane load of passengers traveling thirty hours from England to the U.S. two days after the start of WWII. The Pan American Clipper is packed with a whole cast of characters, including a scientist fleeing the Nazis, a Mafioso being transported back to justice by an FBI agent, a movie star, a thief, a princess, and a Fascist . To complicate matters, one of the crew's family members is kidnapped to force the flyer to orchestrate an emergency landing. Tom Casaletto's glib performance makes this seemingly endless journey fly by with ease. His many accents are first-rate and more than make up for his tendency to pause unexpectedly in the middle of a sentence. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. See all Editorial Reviews
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我通常对文学作品的结构要求较高,这本书的结构设计非常大胆且成功。它采用了多重视角叙事,但巧妙地避免了叙事混乱,反而让不同人物的认知碎片拼凑出了一个更完整的画面。每一章的视角转换都如同一次镜头推拉,时而聚焦于个体的心灵深处,时而拉远展现广阔无垠的海景。这种处理方式极大地丰富了作品的层次感,使得同一个事件从不同人的眼中,折射出截然不同的道德光芒与阴影。它不仅仅是一个关于生存的故事,更是一次关于“我们如何认知世界”的深度探讨,展现了视角对真相构建的决定性作用。
评分这本小说简直是文字的盛宴,作者对环境的描绘细腻到令人窒息。我仿佛能闻到海水的咸湿气息,感受到船只在波涛中起伏的颠簸。故事的节奏把握得极佳,不是那种快节奏的惊悚,而是一种缓慢渗透的张力,像藤蔓一样悄无声息地缠绕住读者的心。人物的内心挣扎被刻画得入木三分,尤其是主角面对抉择时的那种矛盾和痛苦,真实得让人心疼。我特别欣赏作者如何利用光影的变化来暗示人物心境的转变,每一次日出日落都不仅仅是时间的流逝,更是角色内心世界的一次洗礼。这本书需要静下心来细细品味,它不是那种读完就扔在一边的快餐文学,而是会留在记忆深处,时不时让你回想起那些海上孤独的时刻。
评分这本书最让我震撼的是它对“沉默”的诠释。许多重要的对话和冲突,都不是通过激烈的争吵来展现的,而是隐藏在那些未说出口的话语和眼神的交汇之中。作者对非语言交流的捕捉能力令人惊叹。我尤其喜欢那些关于阶层和身份差异的微妙暗示,在那样一个相对封闭的环境里,社会规则依然像无形的枷锁一样束缚着每个人。每一次细微的礼仪偏差,都可能引发一场无声的地震。这种克制的美学,反而比直白的冲突更具力量,让人在合上书本后,依然能感受到那种弥漫在空气中的紧张感,久久不能散去。
评分说实话,这本书的文风相当飘逸,一开始读起来有点费劲,因为它不急于抛出信息,而是喜欢用大段大段的意象来构建氛围。但一旦你适应了这种韵律,就会发现它蕴含的巨大能量。我感觉自己不是在阅读一个传统意义上的故事,而是在经历一场长长的梦境。作者似乎对“记忆”和“失落”有着特殊的偏爱,通过穿插的闪回,构建了一个多层次的叙事结构。这些回忆片段虽然跳跃,却无比准确地击中了情感的核心。它探讨了时间如何腐蚀记忆,以及我们在努力重建过去时所付出的代价。对于喜欢哲学思辨和意识流表达的读者来说,这无疑是一份厚礼。
评分我必须承认,一开始我对这种以航行为背景的故事有些犹豫,总担心会陷入枯燥的航海日志式叙述。然而,这个作者完全颠覆了我的预期。故事的内核是关于人性的复杂与救赎,航行只是一个宏大而又封闭的舞台。情节设计精巧得像一台复杂的钟表,每一个齿轮——无论是突发的意外,还是久远的秘密——都咬合得天衣无缝。特别是中间那段关于信任危机的处理,简直是教科书级别的悬念设置,让我几乎屏住了呼吸。读到最后,那种豁然开朗的震撼感,不是因为简单的真相大白,而是因为理解了每个人物在极端环境下做出的无奈选择。这部作品的文学深度和叙事技巧,绝对值得我给予最高的赞誉。
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