科蒂斯·希登费尔德,美国著名的才女型作家,一九七六年出生,十六岁时便在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年,她又赢得了《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛。她的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上,还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员,曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。
Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.
Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school’s glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls in kilts hold lacrosse sticks on pristinely mown athletic fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel.
As Lee soon learns, Ault is a cloistered world of jaded, attractive teenagers who spend summers on Nantucket and speak in their own clever shorthand. Both intimidated and fascinated by her classmates, Lee becomes a shrewd observer of–and, ultimately, a participant in–their rituals and mores. As a scholarship student, she constantly feels like an outsider and is both drawn to and repelled by other loners. By the time she’s a senior, Lee has created a hard-won place for herself at Ault. But when her behavior takes a self-destructive and highly public turn, her carefully crafted identity within the community is shattered.
Ultimately, Lee’s experiences–complicated relationships with teachers; intense friendships with other girls; an all-consuming preoccupation with a classmate who is less than a boyfriend and more than a crush; conflicts with her parents, from whom Lee feels increasingly distant, coalesce into a singular portrait of the painful and thrilling adolescence universal to us all.
From the Hardcover edition.
莉在“三十而立”时的自述,回忆往事,她有一段话说得非常透彻: “当然,现在我会奇怪,我从哪里得到这样的想法,你要参加一个聚会,别的人必须确确实实地希望你在那里,他们的热情不够疯狂,就意味着他们讨厌你。我从哪里得到这样的想法,被人讨厌是如此重大的事?现在...
评分《奥尔特校园手记》,是刚要进入高中的时候读的,虽然是发生在大洋彼岸的世界。 可是我觉得,不管怎么说,怎样看,青春大概相似吧。 莉·斐奥拉的身上有着每一个少女的影子,敏感脆弱,有点自私偏执。女孩们的友谊也都是“吹弹可破”。奥尔特校园并非是上流...
评分 评分中午十二点醒来,花了三个小时看完剩下的三分之一本《奥尔特校园手记》。如今来说说心里的感想吧。 它是一个很难综合性地评分的书。首先,它是我这些日子以来很少有的一本——感到自己很幸运遇到了并买下来的书,有时候这种书在事后让我觉得甚至有点后怕——如果我没有遇到它...
评分莉在“三十而立”时的自述,回忆往事,她有一段话说得非常透彻: “当然,现在我会奇怪,我从哪里得到这样的想法,你要参加一个聚会,别的人必须确确实实地希望你在那里,他们的热情不够疯狂,就意味着他们讨厌你。我从哪里得到这样的想法,被人讨厌是如此重大的事?现在...
抱着非常低的期望,但成为很大的惊喜。低自尊、眼高手低、overly self-conscious的青春期女孩敏感心理刻画入木三分,配以一个如影随形无时无刻笼罩在主人公头顶的主题:如何面对优势文化?如何面对强势文化是每个人在一生中不同阶段总归要面临的问题,它大到是你的出身、阶层、语言、文化,小到你是如何发音你每句话末的尾音。Intersectionality决定每个人总有一种社会属性将她处于劣势地位,而我们大多数人能力却不足以允许自己和这些优势文化彻底分道扬镳,只能在心理层面寻求和解。高中四年里,主人公在这个问题上没有丝毫长进,but why is that so important to be liked?
评分关于一个年代的高中生活。一个羞涩普通女孩的成长。
评分The plot is not exciting nor is the style too appealing. Yet it captures so perfectly the adolescent angst of our existence. Although we may no longer have as much doubt and pain as we had then - the mess of what we were - before we grew up - stays with us - and stays there with pride.
评分美好而轻浮 如果你想成功 现实才是硬道理!
评分prep school的青春期少女,popular kids, outsider, 成长
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