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.
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Thirteen linked tales from Strout (Abide with Me, etc.) present a heart-wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection. The opening Pharmacy focuses on terse, dry junior high-school teacher Olive Kitteridge and her gregarious pharmacist husband, Henry, both of whom have survived the loss of a psychologically damaged parent, and both of whom suffer painful attractions to co-workers. Their son, Christopher, takes center stage in A Little Burst, which describes his wedding in humorous, somewhat disturbing detail, and in Security, where Olive, in her 70s, visits Christopher and his family in New York. Strout's fiction showcases her ability to reveal through familiar details—the mother-of-the-groom's wedding dress, a grandmother's disapproving observations of how her grandchildren are raised—the seeds of tragedy. Themes of suicide, depression, bad communication, aging and love, run through these stories, none more vivid or touching than Incoming Tide, where Olive chats with former student Kevin Coulson as they watch waitress Patty Howe by the seashore, all three struggling with their own misgivings about life. Like this story, the collection is easy to read and impossible to forget. Its literary craft and emotional power will surprise readers unfamiliar with Strout. (Apr.)
我读《奥丽芙·基特里奇》的过程中,一直想着伊利莎白·斯特劳斯是不是汲取了美国南方文学的精髓,虽然关于这位作家的资料并不多,但得知她出生在美国最东北部的缅因州——也就是闻名全球的恐怖小说家斯蒂芬·金的故乡——并在那里度过童年时,大概也不无理由认为,为什么她...
评分虽然伊丽莎白·斯特劳特(Elizabeth Strout, 1956-)凭借其第三部著作《奥丽芙·基特里奇》成为2009年美国普利策小说奖得主,但其名声依旧没有在中国大陆被广泛传开。大部分读者对其知之甚少。她的第一本中文著作《艾米与伊莎贝尔》其实早在2004年就有台湾出版社出版。然而,她被...
评分《奥丽芙·基特里奇》是那种我想写却又绝对写不出来的小说:看起来不复杂,实际上不简单,所有人都穿着皇帝的新装,却好像他们自己并不是游行的一部分。 这种一言难尽的忧伤或曰嫉妒源自作家伊丽莎白·施特劳特对日常精准的把握。故事好像刚刚从我们身体里长出来,尽管作为读者...
这么温柔的故事,对白真实动人,看得几欲落泪。HBO的电视剧选取了小说里最动人的章节。
评分OK太真实了,真实到她的一举一动都能让我对应到现实中的人。作者ES很妙地在最后加了一段"采访",让OK从小说里走出来,直面自己的创作者,虽然ES称自己只是跟着她。 整本书由Crosby小镇里各个人的故事组成,OK时不时地穿插在其他的小故事里,读起来饶有趣味。不过这种写法结合作者细腻到1080p的描绘,故事的节奏就慢了很多,整个阅读时间持续了一个月。
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评分both fool and sage.
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