具体描述
Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.
Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they’d known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.
Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences—often contrary, sometimes not—prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions. </p>
作者简介
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of seven previous novels; two collections of stories; and Elsewhere, a memoir. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which like Nobody’s Fool was adapted to film, in a multiple-award-winning HBO miniseries.
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评分从纯粹的语言美学角度来看，这本书的文字功力达到了令人叫绝的程度。它的句子结构变化多端，时而长得如同古典乐章般连绵不绝，充满了复杂的从句和精妙的停顿，读起来需要一种韵律感；时而又骤然收紧，变成一击即中的短句，像摄影镜头瞬间的聚焦，精准地捕捉到核心的冲突点。我发现自己会不自觉地反复阅读某些段落，只是为了欣赏那个动词的选择，或那个形容词的搭配，它们之间的化学反应产生了不可思议的张力。它不像许多当代作品那样追求通俗易懂，而是更偏向于一种精雕细琢的艺术品，需要读者付出相应的努力去解码。毫无疑问，这是一本需要用“心”去阅读的书，它回报给读者的，不仅仅是一个故事，而是一场关于语言潜能的深度体验。
评分2.6-21| not funny as his other works but definitely the most ambitious the non-linear narrative is really powerful it forces you to think about love and life in a cruel yet honest way the storyline with Kayla seems out of place i can understand the decision to some extent while this book is labeled uneventful as every book i feel american writers
评分2.6-21| not funny as his other works but definitely the most ambitious the non-linear narrative is really powerful it forces you to think about love and life in a cruel yet honest way the storyline with Kayla seems out of place i can understand the decision to some extent while this book is labeled uneventful as every book i feel american writers
评分2.6-21| not funny as his other works but definitely the most ambitious the non-linear narrative is really powerful it forces you to think about love and life in a cruel yet honest way the storyline with Kayla seems out of place i can understand the decision to some extent while this book is labeled uneventful as every book i feel american writers
评分2.6-21| not funny as his other works but definitely the most ambitious the non-linear narrative is really powerful it forces you to think about love and life in a cruel yet honest way the storyline with Kayla seems out of place i can understand the decision to some extent while this book is labeled uneventful as every book i feel american writers
评分2.6-21| not funny as his other works but definitely the most ambitious the non-linear narrative is really powerful it forces you to think about love and life in a cruel yet honest way the storyline with Kayla seems out of place i can understand the decision to some extent while this book is labeled uneventful as every book i feel american writers
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