From Publishers Weekly A master of the coming-of-age story, R!os is the author of several short story collections (The Iguana Killer, etc.). Fans of his fiction will recognize the origins of numerous stories in this short memoir of growing up in a small Arizona border town. The Nogales of R!os's childhood shared a virtually open border with Nogales, Mexico: business was conducted casually between the two towns and playmates wandered back and forth. Now there is a solid steel wall separating the communities. "This is not the border," R!os writes. "It's something else, something underscoring the difference between danger and grace, which is not something that separates people. It's something that joins them, as they face the same border." The wall forms a dark subtext to this otherwise delightfully innocent memoir, which is magnified when R!os and his first grade "gang" rush home to take midday baths after the sewage treatment plant contaminates the town's one dry riverbed. Later, effluents from unregulated maquiladoras (foreign-owned factories) create a stream that can bleach blue jeans on contact. Now Nogales has the highest rate of lupus in the U.S. But R!os's memoir is not an environmental diatribe. Rather, it is an extremely personal family history filled with small anecdotes and finely drawn landscapes. As a literary autobiography, it is perhaps too true to its title (capirotada is a kind of catchall Mexican bread pudding): a collection of memories that fails to match the power of R!os's fiction. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Rios (Pig Cookies and Other Stories) is Regents Professor at Arizona State University and a native of Nogales, AZ. In this new book, he shares his experiences growing up in this small town on the Mexican border, where he learned to value the unique cultural mix of the area. Much like capirotadaAa Mexican bread pudding, made with lots of different ingredients and traditionally served at LentARios came of age among a mixture of peoples, ideas, and traditions in both his community and his family (his mother is from England, his father from Mexico). Finely crafted and emotionally powerful without being heavy-handed, this well-balanced narrative recalls the universal experiences of childhood and unique personal reminiscences of the author. For all collections, especially those with a regional emphasis.AGwen Gregory, New Mexico State Univ. Lib., Las Cruces Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. See all Editorial Reviews
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这部作品的叙事节奏简直让人欲罢不能,作者对于时间线的掌控达到了炉火纯青的地步。开篇犹如一记重锤,将读者瞬间抛入一个充满迷雾和未解之谜的境地。那种层层剥开真相的快感,是通过精妙的场景切换和人物内心独白的交织实现的。我尤其欣赏作者如何巧妙地利用环境描写来烘托人物的心理状态,比如那段对老旧钟楼的细致描摹,仿佛那滴答声本身就是命运的催促。叙事者的高明之处在于,他知道何时该疾驰,何时该驻足,让读者在紧张感与喘息之间找到平衡。有那么几处情节转折,我完全没有预料到,不得不拍案叫绝,感觉自己像一个正在解谜的侦探,每一步都充满了智力上的博弈。这种结构上的复杂性,使得阅读体验远超一般的线性故事,它更像一个精密的机械装置,每一个齿轮的转动都精准无误,推动着故事滑向一个似乎必然却又充满惊喜的终点。整体而言,它提供了一种智力上的满足感,远胜于单纯的情节驱动。
评分从文学风格上剖析,这部作品展现了一种大胆的、甚至有些反传统的实验精神。它的句法结构常常打破常规,时常出现冗长而华丽的长句,这些长句内部又嵌套着更小的从句和修饰语,形成一种巴洛克式的复杂美感。初读时,这种风格可能会让人有些吃力,需要放慢速度,甚至需要回溯阅读才能完全捕捉其含义。但一旦适应了这种独特的韵律,就会发现其中蕴含着一种独特的哲学思考。作者似乎在用语言本身挑战读者的认知极限,探索表达的边界。不同于那些追求清晰简洁的当代小说,它更像是上世纪某些先锋派作家的回归,充满了对形式的解构和重塑。这种对语言工具的玩弄与探索,使得文本本身成为了一个值得研究的对象,而不仅仅是故事的载体。对于喜爱文字游戏和结构主义探讨的读者来说,这绝对是一部值得反复咀嚼的佳作。
评分我深感这部小说的核心主题力量的强大与复杂性。它没有选择简单地描绘“善”与“恶”的对立,而是深入挖掘了人性的灰色地带——那种介于理想与现实、道德约束与原始欲望之间的永恒拉扯。书中塑造的几位主要人物,他们的动机模糊不清,行为逻辑充满了内在的矛盾,这恰恰反映了真实人生的写照。我们常常被教导要选择立场,但这故事却强迫读者站在每一个角色的角度去理解他们的“不得不为之”,从而产生一种深刻的共情与道德困境。这种对“模糊性”的拥抱,使得小说远远超越了简单的道德寓言,成为了一部关于生存困境的深度剖析。每一次我以为自己已经理解了某个角色的本质时,作者总能抛出一个新的信息点,瞬间颠覆我的判断。这种对人性复杂面的诚实呈现,是这部作品最引人入胜,也最令人不安的地方。
评分阅读这本书的过程,更像是一场浸入式的感官盛宴,而非仅仅文字的堆砌。作者的笔触极其细腻,对于色彩、气味和触感的描绘达到了近乎炫技的程度。例如,书中对某处海边小镇黄昏时分的描写,那份混杂着咸湿空气和烧焦木材的气息,我仿佛真的能闻到,甚至能感受到海风吹拂过皮肤的那种微凉。人物的对话也极具特色,绝非平铺直叙的信息传递,而是充满了潜台词和地域性的俚语,需要读者带着十二分的专注去解读每一个停顿和每一个未说出口的词语。这种对细节的执着,让故事的世界观拥有了令人信服的厚度和质感。它不急于告诉你发生了什么,而是让你先“感受”到这个世界是如何运作的,人物是如何呼吸的。很多文学作品追求宏大叙事,但这本却将所有焦点聚焦于“存在”的微小瞬间,那些转瞬即逝的情绪波动和环境光影,都被作者用近乎诗意的语言精准捕捉,使得阅读体验充满了丰富的层次感。
评分这本书的背景设定,即那个被遗忘的边陲小镇,与其说是一个地理位置,不如说是一种心理状态的具象化。作者花费了大量的笔墨去描绘这个地方的疏离感和停滞感,时间在那里似乎失去了意义,所有的历史和未来都被浓厚的日常琐碎所吞噬。这种环境不仅仅是故事发生的舞台,它更是深刻地影响了人物的命运和选择。小镇的封闭性,造成了人际关系中特有的张力和秘密的积累,每一个角落都潜藏着未被言说的历史包袱。通过对这个微观世界的详尽刻画,作者成功地构建了一种强烈的“在场感”——读者仿佛能感受到那份压抑在空气中的、挥之不去的沉重。这种对“地方感”的极致追求,使得故事的氛围始终保持在一个低沉而又引人入胜的基调上,让人在阅读完毕后,依旧能清晰地“看到”那个小镇的泥泞街道和斑驳的墙壁。
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