With the succinct stories that have become her signature, Maile Meloy has graced literary publications from The New Yorker to The Paris Review and Best New American Voices. Her first published story collection, Half in Love, promises to bring Meloy's acclaimed vignettes to an even wider audience.
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade.
Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars. Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship. A ranch hand falls for a recent law school graduate who appears unexpectedly— and reluctantly—in his remote Montana town. A young father opens his door to find his dead grandmother standing on the front step. Two women weigh love and betrayal during an early snow. Throughout the book, Meloy examines the tensions between having and wanting, as her characters try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: innocence and experience, risk and stability, fidelity and desire.
Knowing, sly, and bittersweet, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy’s singular literary talent. Her lean, controlled prose, full of insight and unexpected poignancy, is the perfect complement to her powerfully moving storytelling.
书名叫两全其美,但其实真正的生活里,哪有两全其美的机会呢,更常见的应该是两手皆空、鸡飞蛋打吧。 贝丝特维斯:单相思。一场从开始几乎注定是失败的爱恋,哪有两全其美,只有求之不得的刻骨铭心。 青涩的成熟:情窦初开。说实话第二个故事有点困惑,感觉是个诱奸幼女?爸爸...
评分 评分在现今这个社会里,总是不能忘记,自己真是的生活,体悟内心感受很重要,去思考和理解,平淡中带来的生活,去真真切切的接纳自己,去努力用心的生活,到那时,所有的选择就不会再为难我们,因为我们懂得去分析和评估自己内心真实的想法与感受,所谓的两全其美,也就是勇敢的做...
评分花了两天的时间读完了《两全其美》,最开始被这本书吸引的是它的英文名,Both ways is the only way I want it,当时想着,为什么把这句话翻译为两全其美呢,于是抱着这种疑惑与好奇翻完了这11个小故事。 11个小故事,关于心动,关于悸动,关于选择,关于拥有与失去。每一个短...
评分历时一周,用碎片化的时间读完了《两全其美》,这是我第一次读短片小说集,怎么说呢,感慨颇深。 全书共讲述了十一个故事,这十一个故事都是独立的,每个故事都很平淡,但每个故事读完后都有一种意犹未尽的感觉。无论是是那个情窦初开的少女,百般失落的老人,暗恋那个女孩的农...
读完整本,我不禁开始怀疑对开篇的喜欢是不是因为经过了影像的熏陶?显然电影对<Travis, B.>的改编拿捏得非常棒,无论是整体悄无声息的风格,空旷平凡中涌动的情绪,故事的简单与内心的波澜反差,以及女主衣着、吃饭模样的细节刻画,都做到了影像与文本同样出色(也许正是文本的简练给了影像发挥的空间),当然了把男孩子换成女孩子更是电影的神来之笔。不过越往后读惊喜越少,第二和第三篇还算挺喜欢,再后面出轨主题重复的有点多,有几篇场景集中在室内对话显得短而狭窄。感觉下来确实她的书还是比较适合影像化的。
评分很久不见这样精巧讲述American Life的短篇小说集,特别喜欢开篇的几个故事,有些卡森麦卡勒斯的影子,在营造孤独感之外不忘时时戳破人性的软弱和生活的虚妄。中间几篇有点审美疲劳,最后两个故事还算不错。
评分如果我要成为写作者,第一步我希望可以写出类似作者的作品。
评分在豆瓣的年度榜上发现的书,短篇小说集,挺不错的,一次一个故事,写人的那点小心思。
评分咸鱼看了快两个月才看完了orz..... 但是还是得说这种短篇小说集真的可以说很合胃口了2333 记得看第一篇的那个晚上我正好在玩杀机的奥德蒙那个地图 满地图的白雪让人想到蒙大拿州的雪 寒冷的农场 那种让人觉得 无欲无求的生活状态 寒冷而孤立 不得不说作者选了个很好的故事发生地 人物场景都不复杂 可是情绪描写的恰到好处 那种失去了遗憾但又明知道做不了什么的心情。看到最后还是第一篇印象最深 但也算是开启了英文短篇小说集阅读的大门了 刷完一本 欢乐奔向那不勒斯四部曲2333333
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