具體描述
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.
著者簡介
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.
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評分用戶評價
似乎到處都潛伏著一種危機，你也可以把它解讀為兩麵性。最後，附加上NYT上的書評：http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html
评分似乎到處都潛伏著一種危機，你也可以把它解讀為兩麵性。最後，附加上NYT上的書評：http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html
评分與其說是certain women 倒不如說是certain women in men’s eyes 所以唯一一篇女性視角的《Two-Step》最深刻 女性可以輕而易舉地看懂男性的裝腔作勢 反過來隻會有點凸顯男性的自作多情 但放在父女關係的那篇《The Girlfriend》裏就閤適不過瞭
评分Montana這樣平靜偏僻的地方普通人生活中的暗湧。書名很有意思，書中相關句子是這樣：“There was a poem Meg had brought home from college, with the line “Both ways is the only way I want it.” The force with which he wanted it both ways made him grit his teeth. What kind of fool wanted it only one way?”
评分非常精彩的短篇小說集，最喜歡的是Liliana
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