An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched a publishing company in his basement dedicated to telling the true history of African civilization. Most of all, he was a wily tactician whose mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free.
Among his brood of seven, his main challenges were Ta-Nehisi, spacey and sensitive and almost comically miscalibrated for his environment, and Big Bill, charismatic and all-too-ready for the challenges of the streets. The Beautiful Struggle follows their divergent paths through this turbulent period, and their father’s steadfast efforts—assisted by mothers, teachers, and a body of myths, histories, and rituals conjured from the past to meet the needs of a troubled present—to keep them whole in a world that seemed bent on their destruction.
With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father’s generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond.
塔那西斯•科茨(Ta-Nehisi Coats),生于1975年,美国当代著名作家、记者,2015年获得麦克阿瑟天才奖,2016年入选《时代周刊》“全球最具影响力100人”。
2008年出版《美丽的抗争》;2015年出版《在世界与我之间》,获得美国国家图书奖、美国有色人种促进会形象奖,并入围普利策奖、全美书评家协会奖终选名单。曾担任《黑豹》《美国队长》编剧。作品销量突破200万册。
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评分勇敢地跨越沉沦的一切,向永恒开战。 父爱是温柔的印刻在血脉中的守护。人们常说,父爱如山,在这个光怪陆离的世界上,父亲或许就是我们心底那片永不消逝的柔软。《美丽的抗争》便是这样的一本书,它记载了塔那西斯•科茨的成长之路,父爱守护着科茨慢慢长大,从一次次的流血...
评分勇敢地跨越沉沦的一切,向永恒开战。 父爱是温柔的印刻在血脉中的守护。人们常说,父爱如山,在这个光怪陆离的世界上,父亲或许就是我们心底那片永不消逝的柔软。《美丽的抗争》便是这样的一本书,它记载了塔那西斯•科茨的成长之路,父爱守护着科茨慢慢长大,从一次次的流血...
评分勇敢地跨越沉沦的一切,向永恒开战。 父爱是温柔的印刻在血脉中的守护。人们常说,父爱如山,在这个光怪陆离的世界上,父亲或许就是我们心底那片永不消逝的柔软。《美丽的抗争》便是这样的一本书,它记载了塔那西斯•科茨的成长之路,父爱守护着科茨慢慢长大,从一次次的流血...
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这本书最让我震撼的,是它对人物内心矛盾的刻画,那种细腻到近乎残忍的真实感,让人不忍直视却又无法移开目光。作者似乎对人性的阴暗面和高光时刻都有着一种深刻的、近乎超验的理解。我尤其对那个配角“艾利克斯”印象深刻,他不是传统意义上的好人或坏人,他的行为逻辑完全建立在他对某个早年创伤的复杂补偿机制之上。作者没有简单地贴上标签,而是通过一系列精心设计的对话和内心独白,展示了一个灵魂是如何在理性与本能、社会规范与个人欲望之间撕扯的。读到他决定做出那个“关键性错误”的段落时,我几乎能感受到他全身的血液都在冷却,那种宿命般的无力感扑面而来。这种对“灰色地带”的深度挖掘,远超出了普通小说的范畴,更像是在进行一场高强度的心理学案例分析,只是它被包裹在引人入胜的故事外壳里。我甚至会思考,如果我身处那个情境,我会做出怎样的选择,这种代入感是极其强大且持久的。
评分这本书的封面设计简直是一场视觉盛宴,那种深沉的靛蓝色和跳跃的金色字体形成了强烈的对比,让人忍不住想一探究竟。我是在一家独立书店偶然发现它的,当时它被放在一个特别推荐的书架上,旁边放着几本我平时很喜欢的文学经典。翻开扉页,那种纸张的质感非常舒服,带着微微的粗粝感,闻起来有种老旧书店特有的木质香气,仿佛在无声地诉说着它承载的故事。这本书的排版也极为讲究,字里行间留白恰到好处,阅读起来毫无压迫感,非常适合那种需要沉浸式体验的读者。我尤其欣赏作者在章节开头运用的一些手绘插图或者符号,虽然内容抽象,但却精准地捕捉到了每一章情绪的基调,让阅读过程变成了一种多维度的感官体验,而不是单纯的文字接收。坦白说,我对它抱有的期待是极高的,因为它的外在包装已经传递出一种精心雕琢的、非同凡响的艺术气息,让人感觉这不仅仅是一本书,更像是一件值得珍藏的工艺品。它成功地在众多信息流中脱颖而出,靠的是那种不张扬却又极其自信的美学表达。
评分关于语言风格,这本书的特点在于其极强的多变性和适应性。在描述战斗场景或冲突爆发时,文字变得极其简短、有力,句式几乎是片段化的,充满了冲击感,读起来像机关枪扫射,节奏极快,让人喘不过气。然而,当场景切换到主角对过往的回忆或对自然景色的描摹时,语言又会立刻变得舒缓、悠长,充满了古典的韵味,仿佛从现代的喧嚣中瞬间抽离出来,进入了一个更具沉思性的维度。这种风格的突然转换,非但没有造成阅读上的割裂,反而像是音乐中的变奏,有效地增强了情绪的张力。我特别留意到作者在一些关键转折点上,会故意使用一些非常规的、甚至略显晦涩的词汇,这些词语犹如一把精密的凿子,凿开了平庸的表述,使得核心信息以一种更具冲击力的方式抵达读者心底。这证明了作者对语言驾驭的熟稔,他深知如何利用词汇的形态和节奏来服务于故事的情感核心。
评分读完前三分之一,我发现作者的叙事节奏处理得非常老道,他似乎非常懂得何时该加速,何时又该放缓,营造出一种如同呼吸般的韵律感。有一段描写主角在清晨迷雾中穿过一个废弃市场的情节,那段文字的密度和场景的构建简直是教科书级别的示范。作者没有堆砌华丽的辞藻,而是用极其精准的动词和富有画面感的名词,将那种湿冷、寂静和一丝若有似无的危险感层层剥开,让我几乎能感受到空气中凝结的水汽。更令人称奇的是,在这么写实的描绘中,作者偶尔会插入一些哲思性的、近乎诗歌的短句,这些跳跃的片段像是给原本平稳的河流投入了一块块卵石,激起了思维的涟漪,迫使我停下来,反复咀嚼那几行文字的深意。这种叙事手法极大地提升了阅读的层次感,让读者在跟随情节推进的同时,也在进行内在的自我审视。它不是那种一目十行就能看完的作品,它要求你放慢脚步,去品味每一个措辞的重量和选择的意图,这对于习惯了快餐式阅读的现代人来说,是一种难得的挑战和馈赠。
评分从结构上来看,这本书的宏大叙事与微观细节的平衡拿捏得令人惊叹。它似乎构建了一个庞大而复杂的社会背景,涉及政治变迁、历史遗留问题,以及某种隐秘的地下文化。然而,作者的高明之处在于,他从未让这些宏大的背景成为喧宾夺主的工具。所有的历史沉淀和复杂的社会结构,都是通过主角们日常的琐碎互动、他们对一杯咖啡的选择、他们对天气变化的抱怨中,不动声色地渗透出来的。比如,某次对弈棋局的描写,几步棋的进退,竟然被赋予了对国家未来走向的隐喻,这种“见微知著”的手法,显示出作者极高的掌控力。它要求读者不仅要关注“发生了什么”,更要关注“在那个环境下,这些人物为何会如此反应”。这种“冰山理论”式的叙事,让每一次信息的解锁都充满了智力上的回报,就像解开了一个层层设限的迷宫,每一步都通向更深远的理解。
评分“He was an intellectual, born as it happened among people who not see a college campus as an outcome. He thought his country rotten, but he was a better fit than he knew...He was caught somewhere between the old socialism and the understanding that the people could not be moved without capital.”
评分“He was an intellectual, born as it happened among people who not see a college campus as an outcome. He thought his country rotten, but he was a better fit than he knew...He was caught somewhere between the old socialism and the understanding that the people could not be moved without capital.”
评分“He was an intellectual, born as it happened among people who not see a college campus as an outcome. He thought his country rotten, but he was a better fit than he knew...He was caught somewhere between the old socialism and the understanding that the people could not be moved without capital.”
评分“He was an intellectual, born as it happened among people who not see a college campus as an outcome. He thought his country rotten, but he was a better fit than he knew...He was caught somewhere between the old socialism and the understanding that the people could not be moved without capital.”
评分“He was an intellectual, born as it happened among people who not see a college campus as an outcome. He thought his country rotten, but he was a better fit than he knew...He was caught somewhere between the old socialism and the understanding that the people could not be moved without capital.”
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