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。
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...
评分文/文小妖 与前段时间国内大热的电影《烈日灼心》的开头有着异曲同工之妙的小说《再见,不再见》也是开篇就直接叙述了一声枪响所引发的案情,把所有人的胃口悬了起来,然后再不疾不徐摆谈后面的事,实为有意思。 作为曾任职《纽约客》40载的美国著名小说家威廉...
评分 评分在时间里生存 我们总在无声经历 你的人生总和一些人 无法割舍 你的人生 也总发生许许多多的故事 然后影响一生 谈论过去时 谎言伴随着每一次呼吸 有些不愿被知的 也将永远埋于深处 愿所有的憾事都能在明天见的时候得以弥补 再见 明天见 一生多少句再见 被说出 一生又有多少 真的...
评分小说很薄,即便是慢慢地读,也读的很快。作者麦克斯韦尔在书中采用了双线叙事,像一出简单但扣人心弦的文艺小品,将故事缓缓道来。书中的一条线是一件涉及两个家庭的凶杀案的始末,另一条线是小说主人公“我”与杀人凶手儿子之间友谊的发展与消亡。两条线通过“我”的追忆慢慢...
One of the most generous and kindest voices in an era that has been descending into the well of oblivion.
评分成Maxwell脑残粉了
评分根据它写了碎尸案哦我
评分气氛很冷的一个故事
评分One of the most generous and kindest voices in an era that has been descending into the well of oblivion.