From Publishers Weekly Daughter of Hollywood producer/ screenwriter Nunnally Johnson and actress Dorris Bowdon, the author spent her childhood, after her parents' divorce, shuttling between parents and coasts. She eloquently evokes the 1940s and '50s: the war years and postwar Communist paranoia, bombed-out London and the enormous pressure on women to marry. Johnson also vividly contrasts New York, with its cocktail parties and cabs, and Los Angeles, with its swimming pools and chauffeurs. Intelligent, curious and troubled, the adolescent Johnson is absolutely privileged, except she doesn't feel at home in either family. This is a book full of superstars, and the confusion and loneliness of a child of divorce are amplified by the proximity of celebrities. When the teenaged Johnson and a pal attend a grown-up party, mean, drunk Johnny Mercer insults Johnson's bulimic girlfriend, and Humphrey Bogart comes to the rescue. At Smith, Johnson and Sylvia Plath attend a class together. Her descriptions of the poet are convincingly disturbing, as are those of talented classmates who abandoned bright futures for marriage. Eventually, Johnson herself succumbs, and in surprising contrast to the rest of the book's dreamy impressionism, she ends in high suspense, walking down the aisle in her bridal gown toward a man she doesn't love, unable to figure out how to say no. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist When your father is celebrated Hollywood screenwriter/producer Nunnally Johnson, and movie royalty such as Bogie and Bacall attend your birthday parties, life may seem impossibly exciting. But when your parents divorce and your mother tears you away from L.A.'s glamour for a more vagabond Manhattan milieu, your new life pales by comparison. Though she may have come from an enviable background, Johnson's pedigree couldn't protect her from the emotional turmoil faced by any child of a broken home. She was frequently lonely, certainly confused, and her peripatetic lifestyle is most definitely unenviable. With a foot in both camps and a stake in neither, Johnson finds herself routinely passed between two homes on two coasts. As she embarks on solitary cross-country train trips to visit one parent, then the other, Johnson seizes these opportunities to reflect on a remarkable, and fleeting, chapter in American culture while struggling to discover her own identity. An acclaimed author in her own right, Johnson, in this captivating coming-of-age memoir, reveals an ethereal time teeming with extraordinary people. Carol HaggasCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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我必须指出,这本书在处理“距离”和“亲密”这两个核心概念时,达到了近乎哲学思辨的层次。它探讨的远不止于地理上的间隔,更多的是人与人之间心理鸿沟的形成与消融。书中对那些“在场却缺席”的角色刻画得入木三分——那些身体上紧密相连的亲属,却因为各自的执念和未被言明的痛苦,在精神世界里相隔万里。作者用大量的篇幅去描绘那些未曾说出口的话语、那些紧闭的门扉、那些在同一张餐桌上却各自沉溺于思绪的场景,让“亲密关系中的疏离”这一主题显得尤为沉重和真实。它迫使我们反思,我们与我们最爱的人之间,到底隔着多深的距离?这种对人性复杂性的深刻洞察,使得这本书超越了单纯的故事叙述,上升到了对现代人际困境的深刻反思,读完后,我对着身边的亲人,都有了重新审视的冲动。
评分这本书的语言风格变化多端,简直像是在品尝一款层次极其丰富的陈年佳酿,每一口都有新的惊喜。开篇时,文字带着一种古典的庄重与疏离感,像是一份泛黄的家族信函,充满了对往昔的敬畏与探究的欲望;然而,随着故事深入,尤其是在描绘家族内部冲突时,文风骤然变得尖锐、充满烟火气,对话的火花四溅,充满了生活化的粗粝感和真实性,读起来让人几乎要屏住呼吸,生怕错过任何一个微妙的口误或反击。最妙的是,作者在穿插回忆片段时,又切换到一种近乎诗歌般的抒情调性,那些关于青春、失落与和解的段落,字里行间充满了对生命无常的哲思,读完让人久久不能平静。这种风格上的大胆跳跃,非但没有造成阅读的割裂感,反而像是一块块精心打磨的宝石,以不同的切面折射出故事更深层的光芒。能够驾驭如此多变语域,并且让它们和谐共存,这绝对是作者文字功力深厚的证明。
评分这本书的叙事节奏简直让人着迷,作者对时间的把握犹如一位经验老到的音乐指挥家,时而舒缓悠扬,如同夏日午后微风拂过窗帘的慵懒感,让人完全沉浸在角色的内心世界里;时而又陡然加快,如同疾速列车穿越隧道般令人屏息,每一次情节的转折都出人意料却又在情理之中。我尤其欣赏作者在描绘人物情感时的细腻笔触,那些微妙的眼神交流、不经意的肢体语言,都被捕捉得栩栩如生,仿佛我们不是在阅读文字,而是在观看一部高清晰度的黑白电影,每一个阴影和光斑都诉说着复杂的人性纠葛。书中对特定场景的感官描写也极其到位,我仿佛能闻到空气中弥漫的咸湿海风,感受到那些古老家具上岁月的纹理。这种沉浸式的体验,使得阅读过程成了一种享受,而非单纯的信息获取。作者似乎深谙“展示而非告知”的叙事精髓,让读者自行去拼凑、去感受那些未言明的张力,这无疑是高级叙事技巧的体现,让这本书在众多同类题材中脱颖而出,值得反复品味。
评分从结构设计的角度来看,这本书简直是一部精密的建筑艺术品。作者似乎对传统线性叙事不屑一顾,而是采用了多重视角交织推进的复杂架构。我们不是被单一的“上帝视角”所引导,而是像一个拿着放大镜的侦探,从不同人物的碎片化记忆和主观感受中,艰难地重构着一个宏大而又充满秘密的家族史。这种叙事上的“去中心化”处理,极大地增强了故事的悬疑感和阅读的参与度。你永远不知道下一章会跳到哪个时间节点,或会突然引入一个看似无关紧要的旁观者视角,而正是这些看似散乱的线索,最终汇集成了一张令人震撼的真相之网。这种非线性叙事的复杂性,要求读者必须时刻保持专注,但回报是巨大的——当所有线索在最后一刻完美契合时,那种豁然开朗的震撼感,是线性小说难以给予的。这无疑是一部需要读者投入心智去解构的文学迷宫。
评分这本书的氛围营造能力,简直可以用“令人窒息的优美”来形容。它不仅仅是在讲述一个家族的故事,更是在构建一个完整的、自洽的“世界观”。无论是对那个特定年代特有的社会氛围的捕捉,还是对特定地域文化符号的精准嵌入,都显示出作者扎实的研究功底和非凡的想象力。那种略带苍凉的历史宿命感,如同背景音乐般贯穿始终,即便是最欢快的场景,也似乎蒙上了一层不可磨灭的阴影,预示着某种必然的走向。这种将历史的厚重感与个体的微小命运紧密结合的处理手法,赋予了故事一种史诗般的悲剧美感。每次合上书页,那种独特的“气味”——混合着旧日尘埃、遗憾与微弱希望的味道——久久不散,让人沉溺其中,无法轻易抽离。这种构建出的强大代入感和情绪残留,是衡量一部作品是否“伟大”的重要标准之一。
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