A new book by Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is cause for celebration. Her bestselling novels, including Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys, have illuminated our most tender relationships. Now, in My Name Is Lucy Barton, this extraordinary writer shows how a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the most tender relationship of all—the one between mother and daughter.
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable.
ELIZABETH STROUT is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
评分A really quiet book. And yet, a wealth of palpable emotions, and with power. Last time I read something so deceitfully peaceful was "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (And then he won the Nobel Prize). And Strout is a Pulitzer winner herself. The la...
这本书的语言风格如同清晨薄雾笼罩下的湖面,表面平静无波,内里却蕴藏着深沉而冰凉的哲思。文字的密度非常高,每一个词语的选择都像是经过了千锤百炼,绝无冗余。我尤其欣赏作者如何处理人物的“沉默”。很多时候,角色之间的交流充满了空白和未尽之意,但正是这些未说出口的话语,构建了他们关系中最真实、最脆弱的基石。它考验着读者的耐心和洞察力,要求我们去阅读字里行间,去感受呼吸之间的停顿。这种写作手法,非常适合那些偏爱内省式文学、对人物心理刻画有极高要求的读者。它不像那些节奏飞快的商业小说,读完后只剩下情节的残余;相反,它会像一颗慢速溶解的糖,在你合上书页很久之后,依然在你的味蕾上留下悠长而复杂的余韵。每当我试图概括它讲了什么具体事件时,总觉得抓不住重点,因为它真正的“事件”不在于发生了什么,而在于“发生”这件事对角色的内在世界造成了何种不可逆转的形变。
评分这部小说的结构设计堪称精妙,它没有采用传统的线性时间推进,而是通过一系列看似不连贯的片段、回忆闪回和当下场景的切换,构建了一个多维度的叙事空间。这种碎片化的叙事,完美地模拟了创伤记忆和日常思维的运作方式,即我们的意识并非总是在一条直线上行进,而是不断地在过去和现在之间跳跃、重叠。对于习惯了清晰情节线的读者来说,初期可能会略感挑战,但一旦适应了这种节奏,便会发现其内在的逻辑和音乐性。每一个片段的插入都不是偶然的,它们如同拼图上的关键一块,看似随机,实则都在相互印证,最终拼凑出一个完整而令人心碎的画面。这本书要求读者成为一个积极的参与者,而不是被动的接收者,你需要主动地去连接那些看似分散的线索,去重建故事的因果链。这种需要智力投入的阅读体验,让最终的理解和共鸣感来得格外深刻而持久。
评分这部作品给我的最深印象,在于它对“身份认同”这一主题的复杂处理。它探讨了一个人在不同环境、不同关系中可能展现出的多重“面具”,以及藏在所有面具之下的那个真实、或许是残缺的自我。作者似乎在不断地追问:当我们脱离了社会设定的角色(比如女儿、病人、局内人),我们真正剩下的是什么?书中的人物仿佛都在进行一场漫长而艰辛的自我考古,挖掘那些被时间、环境或自我保护机制掩埋的真相。这种挖掘过程是缓慢而痛苦的,充满了自我怀疑和对外界评价的恐惧。它没有提供廉价的答案或快速的和解,相反,它拥抱了身份认同的持续流动性和不确定性。因此,读完之后,我感觉自己对周围的人,乃至对自己,都多了一层更具同理心的理解——每个人都在努力地将自己零散的部分拼凑成一个可以面对世界的整体,而这个过程,远比旁人想象的要复杂和疲惫得多。
评分阅读这部作品,感觉就像是坐在一个非常安静的房间里,被一位极其敏锐的观察者,用近乎外科手术般的精准度,剖析着人性的共通困境。它探讨的主题宏大而普世——关于疏离、关于爱与被爱的能力、关于个体在巨大社会结构下的无力感——但所有的宏大都是通过最微小、最私密的个人经验折射出来的。我常常在阅读时感到一种强烈的“被看见”的错觉,仿佛作者看穿了我生命中那些不愿触碰的角落。但这种“看穿”并非审判,而是一种带着巨大同情心的理解。作者的笔触极其细腻,尤其是在描绘身体经验与情感经验的交织方面,达到了令人惊叹的深度。它不回避痛苦和脆弱,但处理痛苦的方式却极为高贵,没有丝毫的自怨自艾。这使得全书笼罩着一种既悲凉又坚韧的独特氛围,它承认了生活的残酷性,却也同时肯定了人类在逆境中依然能保持尊严的努力。
评分这部作品的叙事节奏把握得极为精妙,它不像某些现代小说那样急于抛出情节高潮,而是像一位技艺高超的织工,用最细腻的丝线慢慢编织出人物内心世界的复杂肌理。我读到主人公在面对生活中的重大转折点时,那种近乎麻木的克制,与瞬间爆发的、对过往经历的清醒审视形成了强烈的张力。作者没有用大开大合的笔触去渲染痛苦,而是通过日常生活中那些微不足道却又掷地有声的细节——比如一句不经意的对话,一个特定的气味,或者是一张旧照片的摆放位置——将人物深埋的情感缓缓地、却又不可抗拒地推向了读者的面前。这种克制的力量,远胜过任何直白的呐喊。它迫使读者必须慢下来,去倾听那些未被言说的部分,去体会在看似平静的表面下涌动的暗流。书中对“记忆如何塑造现实”的探讨,尤其令人玩味,它模糊了过去与现在的界限,让读者不禁反思,我们所认定的“自我”,究竟是既定的事实,还是不断被重新讲述的故事版本。这种对叙事本身的解构和重塑,让阅读体验充满了智识上的愉悦和情感上的回响。
评分Lonely and sad.
评分Disclaimer: This book isn't going to satisfy you if you need a conventional plot, with a "story" and a "lesson" and clear explanations.
评分如果不是路程长,把有声书一次听完了,大约就永远翻不完的一本小说。没有很强的情节性,只是细腻的情感,大约对我而言还是太过女性化了……
评分读的时候总会联想到Educated 贫穷起点与通过书本拓宽的视野是共同之处 温吞水文风 尽管母女之间的动态和主人公的背景都有弦外之音可以挖掘 好奇舞台剧改编会具象化还是抽象化表现人物回忆 Laura Linney应该是很合适的!
评分想到哪里说哪里的小说。
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