Hailed as “America’s most popular suspense novelist” ( Rolling Stone ) Dean Koontz has entered a rich new phase of his writing career that is yielding his most imaginative, meaningful, and popular work yet.
At the height of his powers as a literary craftsman, he has won the acclaim of critics as well as the allegiance of millions of fans the world over, transforming the greatest fears and hopes of our time into masterworks of dazzling originality and emotional resonance.
Now, with the stunning depth and virtuosity of his storytelling, he brings to readers one of his most gripping and richly imagined novels to date—an intoxicating story of adventure and suspense, mystery and revelation, told with humor, heart, and high art.
One Door Away From Heaven
In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but can’t find her way—until a new family settles into the rental trailer next door and she meets the young girl who will lead her on a remarkable quest that will change Micky herself and everything she knows—or thinks she knows—forever.
Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires Micky. Beneath Leilani’s effervescence, however, Micky comes to sense a quiet desperation that the girl dares not express.
Leilani’s mother is little more than a child herself. And the girl’s stepfather, Preston Maddoc, is educated but threatening. He has moved the family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, striving to make contact, claiming to have had a vision that by Leilani’s tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world.
Slowly, ever more troubling details emerge in Leilani’s conversations with Micky. Most chilling is Micky’s discovery that Leilani had an older brother, also disabled, who vanished after Maddoc took him into the woods one night and is now “gone to the stars.”
Leilani’s tenth birthday is approaching. Micky is convinced the girl will be dead by that day. While the child-protection bureaucracy gives Micky the runaround, the Maddoc family slips away into the night. Micky sets out across America to track and find them, alone and afraid but for the first time living for something bigger than herself.
She finds herself pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. The passion and disregard for danger with which Micky pursues her quest bring to her side a burned-out detective who joins her on a journey of incredible peril and startling discoveries, a journey through terrible darkness to unexpected light.
One Door Away From Heaven is an incandescent mix of suspense and humor, fear and wonder, a story of redemption and timeless wisdom that will have readers cheering. Filled with tragedy and joy, with terror and hope, it solidifies Dean Koontz’s reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of our time. This is Dean Koontz at his very best—and it doesn’t get any better than that.
From the Hardcover edition.
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从文学技巧的角度来看,这本书的语言风格堪称一绝,它摒弃了华丽辞藻的堆砌,转而追求一种简洁、精确,却又极富画面感的表达方式。很多句子短小精悍,却蕴含着千钧之力,如同武术高手的一记直拳,看似简单,实则内力深厚。我尤其喜欢作者如何运用“留白”来推进情节,它并不急于告知读者所有真相,而是留下足够的空间,让读者的想象力去填补那些未言明的部分。这种与读者的互动,让阅读体验从被动接受信息,转变为一种主动的共创过程。我常常在脑海中构建出不同的可能性,与作者设定的路径进行比对和探索。这种开放性,使得这本书拥有极高的重读价值,每一次重温,都会因为心境的变化,发现全新的侧面和隐藏的寓意。那些看似无关紧要的对话,在后来的情境中,会焕发出惊人的光彩,证实了作者布局之深远。
评分这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其高明,起初的铺陈显得缓慢而谨慎,像是在铺设一条通往秘密花园的小径,每一步都踏实而有重量感。然而,一旦进入中段,那种紧张感如同被拧紧的发条,陡然间爆发出来,将所有松散的线索迅速收拢,形成一个密不透风的网。我不得不承认,有那么几个瞬间,我甚至需要停下来,喘口气,才能继续往下读,生怕错过任何一个微妙的转折。作者在处理高潮部分的冲突时,展现了一种近乎冷酷的精准,没有多余的渲染,一切都自然而然地导向那个不可避免的结局。这种“水到渠成”的叙事艺术,在当今快餐文学盛行的时代,显得尤为珍贵。它教会了我,真正有力量的故事,不需要刻意制造波澜,内在的逻辑和人物的驱动力,足以掀起滔天巨浪。读完后,我有一种强烈的冲动,想立刻去翻阅开头,重新审视那些看似不经意的开场白,因为它们早已埋下了日后爆炸性事件的种子。
评分整本书的氛围营造,有一种难以言喻的、属于特定地域的“气场”。作者似乎对那个虚构的(或影射的)地理环境有着近乎痴迷的热爱与理解。从建筑的质感到季节变迁带来的气候影响,无一不细致入微。这种强大的“在场感”,使得故事的真实性大大增强,你完全相信,在世界的某个角落,真的存在这样一个充满秘密与隐喻的地方。这种环境的塑造,甚至超越了背景板的作用,它本身成为了推动情节发展的重要角色,与人物命运紧密纠缠,相互作用。我甚至能想象出那里的风声、那里的阳光角度,这种感官上的沉浸感,是很多同类作品难以企及的。它带来的不仅仅是阅读的乐趣,更是一种短暂的“移居”体验,让人在现实与虚构之间,找到了一种奇妙的平衡点。
评分这本书的封面设计简直是视觉的盛宴,那种深邃的蓝色调,仿佛能一下子将你拽入一个充满未知与神秘的广阔宇宙。我记得我第一次在书店的角落里看到它,就被那种低调而奢华的气质牢牢吸引住了。作者在文字的运用上,简直是信手拈来,构筑了一个宏大却又细腻的世界观。它不像那种直白的奇幻小说,而是更像一幅用文字精心描绘的油画,每一笔都充满了考量和深意。特别是对于环境的描写,那种光影的交错、空气中弥漫的气味,都能让人感同身受,仿佛真的站在那个故事发生地点的边缘,屏住呼吸,等待着下一幕的展开。我尤其欣赏作者对角色内心世界的刻画,那些潜藏的挣扎、难以启齿的渴望,都被剥离得淋漓尽致,让人不禁反思自身。这种深度,使得这本书在众多作品中脱颖而出,它需要的不是快速翻阅,而是沉下心来,细细品味其中的每一层含义。读完之后,那种意犹未尽的感觉,久久不能散去,仿佛心中留下了一个等待被填补的空洞,促使我不断回味那些精妙的片段。
评分这本书的哲学思辨层面,触及了我内心深处对存在、选择和命运的困惑。它并非生硬地说教,而是通过人物在极端环境下的挣扎与抉择,自然而然地将这些宏大的议题抛到读者面前。我欣赏作者没有提供一个简单、唾手可得的答案,而是呈现了复杂性的全貌。例如,书中关于“牺牲的边界”的探讨,让我彻夜难眠,反复琢磨在道德的灰色地带,个体理性与群体利益之间该如何权衡。这种深刻的人性洞察力,超越了单纯的娱乐范畴,真正触及了文学的本质——映照人心。它迫使我走出自己的舒适区,去理解那些与我固有价值观相悖的行为动机。这绝不是一本让人读完后轻松忘记的书,它更像是一面镜子,照出我们内心深处那些不愿直面的阴影和矛盾,带来的是一种痛苦但极其必要的自我审视。
评分koontz的书总是很罗嗦,絮絮叨叨的细节描写导致情节推进缓慢,这本是三段情节同时推进,在阅读过程中让人总在预期什么时候这三段能够汇合,并且其中两段用的是过去时,一段用的是现在时,它们中的人物究竟是不是同时代也让我充满了好奇,耐着性子终于看完了,故事的后半段让人意外,还算是不错的一本书。
评分koontz的书总是很罗嗦,絮絮叨叨的细节描写导致情节推进缓慢,这本是三段情节同时推进,在阅读过程中让人总在预期什么时候这三段能够汇合,并且其中两段用的是过去时,一段用的是现在时,它们中的人物究竟是不是同时代也让我充满了好奇,耐着性子终于看完了,故事的后半段让人意外,还算是不错的一本书。
评分koontz的书总是很罗嗦,絮絮叨叨的细节描写导致情节推进缓慢,这本是三段情节同时推进,在阅读过程中让人总在预期什么时候这三段能够汇合,并且其中两段用的是过去时,一段用的是现在时,它们中的人物究竟是不是同时代也让我充满了好奇,耐着性子终于看完了,故事的后半段让人意外,还算是不错的一本书。
评分koontz的书总是很罗嗦,絮絮叨叨的细节描写导致情节推进缓慢,这本是三段情节同时推进,在阅读过程中让人总在预期什么时候这三段能够汇合,并且其中两段用的是过去时,一段用的是现在时,它们中的人物究竟是不是同时代也让我充满了好奇,耐着性子终于看完了,故事的后半段让人意外,还算是不错的一本书。
评分koontz的书总是很罗嗦,絮絮叨叨的细节描写导致情节推进缓慢,这本是三段情节同时推进,在阅读过程中让人总在预期什么时候这三段能够汇合,并且其中两段用的是过去时,一段用的是现在时,它们中的人物究竟是不是同时代也让我充满了好奇,耐着性子终于看完了,故事的后半段让人意外,还算是不错的一本书。
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