具体描述
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade.
Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars. Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship. A ranch hand falls for a recent law school graduate who appears unexpectedly— and reluctantly—in his remote Montana town. A young father opens his door to find his dead grandmother standing on the front step. Two women weigh love and betrayal during an early snow. Throughout the book, Meloy examines the tensions between having and wanting, as her characters try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: innocence and experience, risk and stability, fidelity and desire.
Knowing, sly, and bittersweet, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy’s singular literary talent. Her lean, controlled prose, full of insight and unexpected poignancy, is the perfect complement to her powerfully moving storytelling.
作者简介
With the succinct stories that have become her signature, Maile Meloy has graced literary publications from The New Yorker to The Paris Review and Best New American Voices. Her first published story collection, Half in Love, promises to bring Meloy's acclaimed vignettes to an even wider audience.
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读后感
作者笔下的人观察力敏锐。可必须要交谈的时候，他们像是潜水钟，无法准确地，或者因为这样那样的顾虑，无法完全地表达出自己的看法。是懦弱呀，喉咙紧着，心跳快了，说着别的话搪塞过去了，心里不断不断地自责着。 Meloy 的描写往往避开人物本身：她写他们眼里看到的景与物。而...
评分历时一周，用碎片化的时间读完了《两全其美》，这是我第一次读短片小说集，怎么说呢，感慨颇深。 全书共讲述了十一个故事，这十一个故事都是独立的，每个故事都很平淡，但每个故事读完后都有一种意犹未尽的感觉。无论是是那个情窦初开的少女，百般失落的老人，暗恋那个女孩的农...
评分作者笔下的人观察力敏锐。可必须要交谈的时候，他们像是潜水钟，无法准确地，或者因为这样那样的顾虑，无法完全地表达出自己的看法。是懦弱呀，喉咙紧着，心跳快了，说着别的话搪塞过去了，心里不断不断地自责着。 Meloy 的描写往往避开人物本身：她写他们眼里看到的景与物。而...
评分花了两天的时间读完了《两全其美》，最开始被这本书吸引的是它的英文名，Both ways is the only way I want it，当时想着，为什么把这句话翻译为两全其美呢，于是抱着这种疑惑与好奇翻完了这11个小故事。 11个小故事，关于心动，关于悸动，关于选择，关于拥有与失去。每一个短...
评分历时一周，用碎片化的时间读完了《两全其美》，这是我第一次读短片小说集，怎么说呢，感慨颇深。 全书共讲述了十一个故事，这十一个故事都是独立的，每个故事都很平淡，但每个故事读完后都有一种意犹未尽的感觉。无论是是那个情窦初开的少女，百般失落的老人，暗恋那个女孩的农...
用户评价
太小我了，所以最小我的兄弟滑雪记还更鲜活一点。很多篇在以为要结束的节点其实只到一半，修正了狭隘的我。
评分不动声色的沉重
评分I just cannot bring myself to give a shit about the characters... no connection whatsoever... 好像能感受到作者想走的文风方向，但最后结果文笔过于平淡。听的有声书，narrator们非常好，算是个亮点
评分不动声色的沉重
评分似乎到处都潜伏着一种危机，你也可以把它解读为两面性。最后，附加上NYT上的书评：http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html
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