ENELOPE FITZGERALD wrote many books small in size but enormous in popular and critical acclaim over the past two decades. Over 300,000 copies of her novels are in print, and profiles of her life appeared in both The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. In 1979, her novel Offshore won Britain's Booker Prize, and in 1998 she won the National Book Critics Circle Prize for The Blue Flower. Though Fitzgerald embarked on her literary career when she was in her 60's, her career was praised as "the best argument.. for a publishing debut made late in life" (New York Times Book Review). She told the New York Times Magazine, "In all that time, I could have written books and I didn’t. I think you can write at any time of your life." Dinitia Smith, in her New York Times Obituary of May 3, 2000, quoted Penelope Fitzgerald from 1998 as saying, "I have remained true to my deepest convictions, I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?"
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In 1959 Florence Green, a kindhearted widow with a small inheritance, risks everything to open a bookshop - the only bookshop - in the seaside town of Hardborough. By making a success of a business so impractical, she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers. By daring to enlarge her neighbors' lives, she crosses Mrs. Gamart, the local arts doyenne. Florence's warehouse leaks, her cellar seeps, and the shop is apparently haunted. Only too late does she begin to suspect the truth: a town that lacks a bookshop isn't always a town that wants one.
英国作家佩内洛普·菲兹杰拉德的《书店》,是一本与梦想有关的书。 主人公弗萝伦丝在一个不足千人的小镇上开了一家书店,这一举动遭到了以附庸风雅的加玛特夫人为代表的小镇各个阶层的敌意和排斥,尽管弗萝伦丝竭尽所能,甚至不惜与律师针锋相对,然而,在唯一支持弗萝伦丝的布...
评分强烈推荐这本小说,这是一本有情怀的,有悠长氛围的英式小说。实在是很好看啊,作者简直太有自己的风格了,即使是译文,那种悠长的气氛也能很强烈的感觉到。要是能看到原版就好了。
评分 评分《书店》又是一本关于书的书。同时,也是关于一个中年女人和她的书店的一本小说。 《书店》也是一本充满小资情怀的书。全书弥漫的那种悲伤可以像传染病一样,缠上喜欢阅读并喜欢书的人。 这本2006年出版的书,在豆瓣很流行,目前已经积累了10篇书评。绝大多数的书评都和我...
评分强烈推荐这本小说,这是一本有情怀的,有悠长氛围的英式小说。实在是很好看啊,作者简直太有自己的风格了,即使是译文,那种悠长的气氛也能很强烈的感觉到。要是能看到原版就好了。
非常老派的narrative以及语言,觉得Kazuo Ishiguro的The Remains of the Day的语言风格居然和这个有点像,隐忍又英式冷幽默又悲伤。另外故事非常丧,文化改变不了社会,有文化的人自私自利,有自己的社会地位,可爱的是对文化没兴趣的底层民众,但文化改变不了他们,Florence最终明白自己居住了10年的小镇根本不需要什么书店!
评分读的是人人版,结尾居然微虐,所有人突然都背过脸去。与之前读的蓝花,离岸冲淡自然的风格相比,这本要更符合通俗意义上的“精彩”,石头投入水中激起一圈一圈的涟漪,我觉得这本倒更符合布克奖的口味,查了下1978年的获奖作品原来是默多克的大海 ,大海。。。好吧。
评分读的是人人版,结尾居然微虐,所有人突然都背过脸去。与之前读的蓝花,离岸冲淡自然的风格相比,这本要更符合通俗意义上的“精彩”,石头投入水中激起一圈一圈的涟漪,我觉得这本倒更符合布克奖的口味,查了下1978年的获奖作品原来是默多克的大海 ,大海。。。好吧。
评分penelope fitzgerald writes in a way that's seemingly effortless and nonchalant, but you just know that she cares more than anybody else
评分To those who were born defeated and profoundly lost. The ending, with such economy and restraint, is the saddest I’ve ever read....
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