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From America's Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack's sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother's Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: "Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me."Mack's cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn's honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia. Carolyn's pursuit of the truth about Mack's disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide? What do Mack's old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack's disappearance? Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women? Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her? Carolyn's passionate search for the truth about her brother -- and for her brother himself -- leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.
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读完这本大部头，我只有一个感觉：时间感彻底错乱了。作者似乎非常热衷于在不同的时间线之间进行无缝切换，而且常常没有任何明确的过渡词或标记。上一页还在描述主角童年时一次夏日郊游的纯真与美好，下一页可能就跳跃到了几十年后，主角面对人生的巨大挫折，那种冰冷的绝望感扑面而来。这种处理方式，虽然在文学理论上或许可以称之为“非线性叙事”的极致体现，但对于一个追求沉浸式阅读体验的普通读者来说，无疑是一种折磨。我经常需要停下来，在脑海中构建一个时间轴，把散落在各处的线索重新排列组合。书中描绘的那些城市景观和人物的命运变迁，都笼罩着一层挥之不去的宿命论的阴影。每个人似乎都在重复着前人的错误，命运的齿轮在缓慢而无情地转动。我尤其欣赏作者对“记忆”的处理——记忆既是救赎，也是最残酷的枷锁。那些关于失去、关于遗憾的片段，被反复咀嚼、扭曲，最终形成了一种令人窒息的氛围。这本书需要的不只是阅读技巧，更需要一种近乎冥想的状态才能稍稍领会其中精髓，否则很容易迷失在时间的乱流里。
评分这本厚重的小说简直是一场文字的迷宫，我花了好几周的时间才勉强从中找到一些出口。作者的叙事手法极其晦涩，仿佛故意设置了无数的障碍来考验读者的耐心。开篇几章，人物关系错综复杂，每个人都有着多重身份，而且似乎每个人都在隐瞒着什么。我记不清自己翻回去查阅了多少次前文，试图理清谁是谁，他们在什么时间、什么地点进行着那场看似毫无意义的对话。更让人抓狂的是，情节的推进极其缓慢，大量充斥着对环境的近乎偏执的细致描绘，无论是破败的维多利亚式宅邸内部潮湿的空气，还是远处工厂里机器单调的轰鸣，都被作者用近乎冗长的方式铺陈开来。我一度怀疑，这些细节是否真的与主线故事相关，还是仅仅是作者炫耀其词汇量的工具。然而，就在我几乎要放弃的时候，某一章突然闪现出一段极具张力的对话，如同在浓雾中点亮的一盏灯，让我重新燃起了继续探索的欲望。但这种顿悟很快又被下一段如同哲学论文般深奥的内心独白所取代。总而言之，这不是一本能让你轻松消遣的作品，它更像是一场需要全神贯注、甚至需要草稿纸辅助的智力挑战。它让人筋疲力尽，但又隐约透露着一种只有少数人才能领会的、深埋地下的文学价值。
评分这本书的语言风格，坦白说，让我感到一种强烈的疏离感。它不像是在“讲述”一个故事，更像是在“解构”一种存在状态。用词极为考究，但这种考究感常常演变成一种冷峻的、近乎医学报告般的精确。比如，当描写人物的悲伤时，作者不会直接用“他很痛苦”这样的词汇，而是会细致入微地描摹他肌肉的细微抽搐、瞳孔的收缩幅度，甚至是空气中湿度对皮肤反射光的改变。这种客观到极致的描写，反而抽离了情感的温度。我试图去共情书中的角色，但他们的对话充满了象征意义，与其说他们在交流，不如说他们是在进行一场场精心编排的语言游戏。我感觉自己像一个站在玻璃墙外的人，能清晰地看到里面发生的一切，却无法触碰到任何真实的温度或情感。唯一能让我感到一丝“人味”的，或许是贯穿始终对“真理”的追问。书中每个人似乎都在寻找一个最终的答案，一个能解释他们所有痛苦和困境的公式，但正如书名暗示的那样，那个确切的位置似乎永远遥不可及。
评分我得承认，这本书在结构上的野心是惊人的，几乎可以称得上是文学建筑学的一个案例。作者并未采用传统的起承转合，而是将故事拆解成无数个独立却又相互呼应的碎片，然后用一种近乎数学般严谨的逻辑将它们重新拼合起来。不同章节之间，主题的重叠、意象的反复出现，构建了一个庞大而精密的叙事网。比如，一个在第一部分出现的关于“断裂的瓷器”的比喻，在全书的结尾处以一种完全不同的语境重新浮现，带来一种令人战栗的完成感。这种手法要求读者具备极强的联想能力和耐心去追踪那些细微的线索。我最欣赏的一点是，作者对“沉默”的处理。很多时候，最关键的信息并非通过对话传达，而是通过人物之间的空隙、通过文字的省略号、通过未被填补的空白来暗示。这使得阅读过程充满了互动性，仿佛读者本人也参与了故事的创作，需要主动去填补那些留给我们的空白地带。这无疑是一次对阅读耐力和理解力的极限挑战，但最终的体验是丰厚而多层次的。
评分如果用一个词来形容阅读这本书的感受，那便是“压抑的崇高感”。它探讨的议题宏大得令人敬畏——关于存在的意义、文明的衰亡、以及个体在历史洪流中的渺小。书中充斥着大量对古典哲学和现代科学理论的引用，虽然有些部分我完全无法理解，但那种深沉的思考和对人类局限性的深刻洞察，仍然给我带来了强烈的震撼。场景的描绘总是走向极端，要么是极度繁华却又腐朽的精英阶层聚会，要么是荒凉到令人心悸的废弃之地，这两种极端场景的交替，强化了世界正在不可逆转地走向某种终结的预感。书中人物的对话很少有日常感，他们谈论的总是形而上的、关乎终极命运的问题，使得整个阅读体验笼罩在一种悲剧性的史诗氛围之下。看完之后，我感觉自己仿佛刚从一场漫长而艰苦的朝圣之旅归来，身上带着泥泞和疲惫，但内心深处却因为直面了某些宏大而不可名状的真理而获得了一种近乎超脱的平静。这是一部需要时间去消化、去沉淀，并且必然会在心中留下深刻烙印的作品。
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