On her way home from school on a snowy December day in 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon ("like the fish") is lured into a makeshift underground den in a cornfield and brutally raped and murdered, the latest victim of a serial killer--the man she knew as her neighbor, Mr. Harvey. Alice Sebold's haunting and heartbreaking debut novel, The Lovely Bones, unfolds from heaven, where "life is a perpetual yesterday" and where Susie narrates and keeps watch over her grieving family and friends, as well as her brazen killer and the sad detective working on her case. As Sebold fashions it, everyone has his or her own version of heaven. Susie's resembles the athletic fields and landscape of a suburban high school: a heaven of her "simplest dreams," where "there were no teachers.... We never had to go inside except for art class.... The boys did not pinch our backsides or tell us we smelled; our textbooks were Seventeen and Glamour and Vogue." The Lovely Bones works as an odd yet affecting coming-of-age story. Susie struggles to accept her death while still clinging to the lost world of the living, following her family's dramas over the years like an episode of My So-Called Afterlife.Her family disintegrates in their grief: her father becomes determined to find her killer, her mother withdraws, her little brother Buckley attempts to make sense of the new hole in his family, and her younger sister Lindsey moves through the milestone events of her teenage and young adult years with Susie riding spiritual shotgun. Random acts and missed opportunities run throughout the book--Susie recalls her sole kiss with a boy on Earth as "like an accident--a beautiful gasoline rainbow." Though sentimental at times, The Lovely Bones is a moving exploration of loss and mourning that ultimately puts its faith in the living and that is made even more powerful by a cast of convincing characters. Sebold orchestrates a big finish, and though things tend to wrap up a little too well for everyone in the end, one can only imagine (or hope) that heaven is indeed a place filled with such happy endings. --Brad Thomas Parsons
——————————————All Notes————————————— 当时你没逃开,没逃就是没逃,别再多想了,想再多也没用。你已经不在人间,你必须接受这个事实。(P5) 妈妈直视前方,目光似乎延伸到无边无际的未来。在那一刻,她不像我的妈妈,像一个和我没任何关系的陌生...
评分“我姓沙蒙,听起来就像"三文鱼",名叫苏茜。一九七三年十二月六日,我被谋害时不过十四岁。”这就是这本书的第一句话。就是这一句话让我在书店随意翻开此书的瞬间就决定要买下来。可见一个好的开头多么重要。 买回家之后并不是第一时间就看。反而是看了其它几本不相关的书后才...
评分 评分9月15日,星期五,上午11点,我在纽约Penn Station火车站等同事,顺便溜达进出口处的书店,顺手拿起一本书来翻看。书的名字叫The Lovely Bones,似乎在豆瓣还是哪里见过介绍的,一直没有翻过。"I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."(1973年12月6日,我被...
评分除却巫山不是云。
评分纽约时报榜单上的书简直不能看
评分不明白peter jackson为什么会拍这一类型的电影
评分不明白peter jackson为什么会拍这一类型的电影
评分Heart-warming!
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