卓伊·海勒(Zöe Heller),生于伦敦,记者、作家。作品散见于《星期日独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》、《名利场》、《纽约客》、《泰晤士报文学增刊》等。1993年后迁居纽约。2002年因《每日电讯报》的专栏获得英国“年度专栏作家”奖。2003年小说《丑闻笔记》入围英国小说的最高奖项——布克奖决选名单。
Zoe Heller juggles journalism and novel-writing successfully in Notes on a Scandal and manages to say something interesting and complex about moral panics and the people who get caught up in them.
Pottery teacher Sheba lets herself be talked into an affair with 15-year-old pupil Connolly; part of what is admirable about this novel is that there is no real attempt to extenuate this--it's wrong and she knows this from the start, enough to lie to herself and others about it. It's an abuse of her very limited power--he is one of the few of her pupils interested in art, not interested in perpetually disrupting her lessons.
Sheba is not alone in abusing power, though, and Heller forces us to confront this unpleasant truth about the moralising, managerial headmaster, the husband freed by Sheba's action to seduce his own very slightly older students, and the relatives who never liked her much and can now disown her. Above all, she devotes most of the novel to Barbara, the older colleague who becomes Sheba's confidante and slowly manipulates the situation to make Sheba entirely dependent on her. This is a brilliantly gloomy study in obsession--and the obsession in question is not actually Sheba's with her underage lover. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Zoe Heller's second novel is the sort of book you get through in one sitting. It's centred around Barbara and Sheba, teachers at St George's, where Sheba, the new pottery teacher, livens up the proceedings at the school, first with her charisma and then with her affair with a student. Barbara, the 'incubus' as she is described, is an uncomfortable and stifling woman, but her humanity has her jumping out of the page at you: you've met her before, you didn't like her and were probably scared of her. Both women are very ordinary, making their complex psychologies all the more disturbing. In fact, all of Heller's characters are alarmingly recognizable, and the situations so familiar and real that you feel as though you are intruding upon something dangerous; the more you read the more you want to hide from the plot and the people she has created. The 'notes on a scandal' are Barbara's account of events as Sheba's circumstances hurtle out of control, with Barbara her unflinching, irrepressible stalwart, her 'notes' providing a turning point in the pair's unhealthy and compelling relationship. On the surface, Sheba may appear to be the only guilty party but those around, including her husband, other teachers and the media, all have a part to play in or something to gain from her downfall. Heller has written about the power of passion and the horrors of repression in an earthy, stingingly humorous satire that puts every other book of this ilk in the shadows. This novel is guaranteed to have you hooked from the first word to the last. Simply genius. (Kirkus UK)
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评分在Mel淘书的时候,因为行李体积和重量均有限,几乎每一本都是千挑万选。Zoe Heller的Notes on a Scandal算个例外。这部小说年前就出了中文译本,褐色封面,三只交错的高脚杯,颜色各异,很有那么一点情调。企鹅的旧版,淡绿色封面,一个金发的中年女人把头高高后仰,骄纵,歇斯...
评分卓伊•海勒(Zöe Heller)的小说《丑闻笔记》入围2003年英国布克奖决选;同名电影获2007年第79届奥斯卡奖4项提名。小说里,40岁女教师希芭和15岁男学生康纳利展开一段不伦之恋。恋情曝光,舆情沸腾,希芭被控“猥亵男童”,身败名裂,康纳利也跟她分手。希芭的同事芭芭拉...
评分《丑闻笔记》 40岁的中学女教师希芭和15岁的男学生康纳利坠入爱河,恋情被披露后,她因猥亵男童罪身败名裂。 在图书馆随手抓到了这本书,说实在的,这样一种泛滥成灾的主题很难引起人什么阅读兴趣,序言上却说,这是一部尖刻促狭聪明的让人喘不过气来的小说,于是很没操守想...
评分《丑闻笔记》 40岁的中学女教师希芭和15岁的男学生康纳利坠入爱河,恋情被披露后,她因猥亵男童罪身败名裂。 在图书馆随手抓到了这本书,说实在的,这样一种泛滥成灾的主题很难引起人什么阅读兴趣,序言上却说,这是一部尖刻促狭聪明的让人喘不过气来的小说,于是很没操守想...
感觉电影改编得比较好,但是电影中对Barbara这个形象并不公正,将一个选择不结婚的单身老女人丑化成一个有心理疾病的、病态的cat lady。
评分感觉电影改编得比较好,但是电影中对Barbara这个形象并不公正,将一个选择不结婚的单身老女人丑化成一个有心理疾病的、病态的cat lady。
评分感觉电影改编得比较好,但是电影中对Barbara这个形象并不公正,将一个选择不结婚的单身老女人丑化成一个有心理疾病的、病态的cat lady。
评分感觉电影改编得比较好,但是电影中对Barbara这个形象并不公正,将一个选择不结婚的单身老女人丑化成一个有心理疾病的、病态的cat lady。
评分loneliness & obsession
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