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.
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.
其实说起来我本人看这本书的时间还是蛮早的,因为高中时与一个文青范儿的朋友 了和他保持共同的话题,所以读了大量这样的文学作品,而我当时读的第一本就是这本书,也算是开启了一个新世界的大门 ,非常精彩 ,非常好, 很多人的阅读水平适合读这些的文字情节,欣赏水平特别达...
評分在现今这个社会里,总是不能忘记,自己真是的生活,体悟内心感受很重要,去思考和理解,平淡中带来的生活,去真真切切的接纳自己,去努力用心的生活,到那时,所有的选择就不会再为难我们,因为我们懂得去分析和评估自己内心真实的想法与感受,所谓的两全其美,也就是勇敢的做...
評分第一篇很棒,後麵跟弟弟滑雪那篇也很amusing
评分與其說是certain women 倒不如說是certain women in men’s eyes 所以唯一一篇女性視角的《Two-Step》最深刻 女性可以輕而易舉地看懂男性的裝腔作勢 反過來隻會有點凸顯男性的自作多情 但放在父女關係的那篇《The Girlfriend》裏就閤適不過瞭
评分Her writings are pretty subtle, and the flow of the narrative goes well. I’m not sure if it’s autobiographical since she is from Montana. But she definitely captures the transitions which caused by mobility, or displacement. Very impressionist. Anyone who identifies with a small town person may like it since all the settings are about it.
评分在豆瓣的年度榜上發現的書,短篇小說集,挺不錯的,一次一個故事,寫人的那點小心思。
评分與其說是certain women 倒不如說是certain women in men’s eyes 所以唯一一篇女性視角的《Two-Step》最深刻 女性可以輕而易舉地看懂男性的裝腔作勢 反過來隻會有點凸顯男性的自作多情 但放在父女關係的那篇《The Girlfriend》裏就閤適不過瞭
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