加思‧斯坦(Garth Stein)
美國著名作傢。1990年獲哥倫比亞大學藝術碩士學位,原為紀錄片製作人。
1998年齣版小說Raven Stole the Moon,在文學界初試啼聲。2005年《單身伊凡的城堡》齣版,獲次年太平洋西北書商公會圖書奬、美國獨立書商協會選書。2008年《我在雨中等你》甫一齣版,迅速登上《紐約時報》暢銷書榜,先後榮居23個國傢及地區排行榜首位,至今長銷不衰。
《單身伊凡的城堡》以細膩的文字、親切又不尋常的故事,展露成長中的敏感、不羈、脆弱與彷徨。基調悠長又略帶戲謔,如摺鏡般攏起一束光,溫暖習慣退縮、獨舐孤獨的心靈。
“Funny, bewitching, observant.”— The Oregonian “Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Stein’s latest work. Encore!”— The Seattle Times “Compelling.”— Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Stein handles the many narrative elements deftly.”— Seattle Weekly “An engrossing family drama.”— Publishers Weekly Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evan’s life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known. Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty. Garth Stein , a former documentary filmmaker, was co-producer of an Academy Award-winning short film. How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets is his second novel; his first, Raven Stole the Moon , was published by Pocket Books. His third novel, The Art of Racing in the Rain , will be published by HarperCollins in 2008 and is being translated around the world. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
看了这本书竟然会联系到自己,自己曾经也是那样,永远的怪别人,认为别人给你的你所需的永远不够,总是以自我为中心,敏感,总是怀疑别人给你的爱,恩,刚开始看的时候竟然会陷进主人公的那种思维,感觉找到了知己,殊不知,是自己太幼稚了。。。。
評分大约是半个月之前,一口气读完了两本书。分别叫做《十一种孤独》和《单身伊凡的城堡》,乍一听名字都很小清新,但实际上都是顶好顶好的小说,她们给我这个炎热、单调、注定属于司法考试的暑假增添了光彩。现在案头摆着那本厚重、著名的《百年孤独》,却不知何时可以读完了...
評分《单身伊凡的城堡》是一本很好的小说。至少对于我来说是如此。这本书的开头倒并没有给我多深的印象,但是越到后来,我越关注主人公伊凡,越为他的所言所行所想所动容。这倒并不是说伊凡的故事有多传奇,恰恰相反,他是普通得不能再普通的一个人,他就像你,也更像我。而正是他...
評分刚刚在看《破产姐妹》第四季第二集,里面的巨无霸丰乳肥臀女人苏菲用碟仙测她是否要和奥利弗复合。谁都能看得出来,她就是自己在操控着所谓的碟仙。 就好像加思·斯坦说的,“你的心,决定你所看见的。我们是自己命运的创造者。” 加思·斯坦就是本书的作者,不过上面这句话是...
評分他黯然神伤去参加前女友的葬礼,昨日爱与恨再度浮现脑海之中,只是他还没有来得及梳理出孰是孰非,他的视线中出现一张和他相似的但十分青涩的脸孔,从天而降,一个十四岁的,正处在叛逆期的儿子,这一年的伊凡,我们故事的主人公仅三十一岁。伊凡是孤独的。虽然父母家境十分富...
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