The Undertaking 在线电子书 图书标签: 美国 English work
发表于2024-11-05
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生与死的思考
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评分If we couldn't be with the one we loved, honey, wo loved the one we were with
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托马斯.林奇(Thomas Lynch)著有《动与静的身体》(Bodies in Motion and at Rest)、《和希瑟.格蕾丝一起滑冰》(Skating with Heather Grace)、《老雌猫及其他》(Grimalkin & Other Poems)和《仍然生活在米尔福德》(Still Life in Milford)。他的诗和散文发表于《哈泼斯》、《伦敦书评》、《纽约客》和《巴黎评论》等著名期刊。林奇住在密歇根州的小镇米尔福德,是小镇上殡仪馆的老板。本书为作者赢得了1998年的美国图书奖和1997的美国的国家图书奖提名。
Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release. He is also a man of sardonic wit, uncovering humor where we least thought to find it--in our fear of and fascination with death. In its homages to parents who have died and to children who shouldn't have, its tales of golfers tripping over grave markers, portraits of gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides, The Undertaking displays an impressively wide vocal range--from solemn, nostalgic, and lyrical to acerbic, sprightly, and unflinchingly professional.
最早接触这本书是在《疯狂英语》上。非常有磁性却弥漫着生冷气息的声音道:“I'd rather it'd be February.” 在那篇节选文章之后还有首至今没搞明白究竟是哪国语言与英语混杂的通俗与美声唱法混杂的男女对唱。杂志早已不知所踪,但这段音频我一直保留着,时不时便会拷出来听。...
评分 评分我正在阅读此书,里面有神秘性,性灵的毁灭是必然,那就需要有人来收拾了。这样就显得此种职业的特殊性。从事此事业的人们的性情、思维是怎样有别于常人?如果抛开其神秘性,它只是作为一种社会职业,工作者也与其他行业的人在生活嗜好上没有不同。环境影响心理,心里左右其行...
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