In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered.Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
威廉·麦克斯韦尔 (William Maxwell,1908-2000)
著名编辑、小说家、散文家、童书及传记作者,曾任职《纽约客》40载,是纳博科夫、厄普代克、塞林格等诸多美国当代重要作家的伯乐、知己与导师。著有包括《再见,明天见》在内的6部长篇小说,荣获美国国家图书奖、美国艺术与文学学院奖章、美国笔会/马拉穆德奖、马克· 吐温奖等。
故事随着一声枪响拉开帷幕,却在告知了谋杀案的凶手后突然切换了场景讲述起主人公自己的生活。就这样我们带着谋杀案动机的疑问走进了两个少年的生活。 “我”和“我”的朋友克莱塔斯的友谊结束得莫名其妙就像它开始时那样,甚至你可以说那都算不上是什么友情。当时“我”...
评分 评分威廉•麦克斯韦尔将回忆与虚构描摹得淋漓尽致的书写,让我想起席慕蓉的那首诗:“在绿树白花的篱前,曾那样轻易地挥手道别。而沧桑的二十年后,我们的魂魄却夜夜归来。”年少时,我们总是豪迈地轻言离别,之后,却又不得不一次次在回忆中捡起沉重的悔恨。 以一个惊悚...
评分 评分读初中的时候,我有一个玩得要好的朋友,后来因为她父亲的一些事以及她的成绩急速下滑,导致我的父母禁止我与她一块玩耍。毕业后我们最后一次遇见,是在我们每次放学回家走到分岔的那个路口,她坐着摩托从我身边经过,我根本来不及看清她的脸,只听到她大声呼唤我的名字...
喜欢Maxwell
评分So that instead of being stuck there he could go on and by the grace of God leas his own life, undestroyed by what was not his doing.
评分One of the most generous and kindest voices in an era that has been descending into the well of oblivion.
评分8.8/A
评分One of the most generous and kindest voices in an era that has been descending into the well of oblivion.
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