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Time is a bitch
評分U just grown up, like the rest of us
評分Amusingly melancholic
評分a book on the interplay of time and music, on survival, on the stirrings and transformations set ruthlessly in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates
評分神書一本…我甚至都推薦給鄧同學瞭
Jennifer Egan’s 2017 novel, Manhattan Beach, has been awarded the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is also the author of The Invisible Circus, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001, Look at Me, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001, Emerald City and Other Stories, The Keep, and A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the LA Times Book Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, Granta, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Also a journalist, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, over many years, in locales as varied as New York, San Francisco, Naples, and Africa.
We first meet Sasha in her mid-thirties, on her therapist’s couch in New York City, confronting her long-standing compulsion to steal. Later, we learn the genesis of her turmoil when we see her as the child of a violent marriage, then as a runaway living in Naples, then as a college student trying to avert the suicidal impulses of her best friend. We plunge into the hidden yearnings and disappointments of her uncle, an art historian stuck in a dead marriage, who travels to Naples to extract Sasha from the city’s demimonde and experiences an epiphany of his own while staring at a sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Museo Nazionale. We meet Bennie Salazar at the melancholy nadir of his adult life—divorced, struggling to connect with his nine-year-old son, listening to a washed-up band in the basement of a suburban house—and then revisit him in 1979, at the height of his youth, shy and tender, reveling in San Francisco’s punk scene as he discovers his ardor for rock and roll and his gift for spotting talent. We learn what became of his high school gang—who thrived and who faltered—and we encounter Lou Kline, Bennie’s catastrophically careless mentor, along with the lovers and children left behind in the wake of Lou’s far-flung sexual conquests and meteoric rise and fall.
A Visit from the Goon Squad is a book about the interplay of time and music, about survival, about the stirrings and transformations set inexorably in motion by even the most passing conjunction of our fates. In a breathtaking array of styles and tones ranging from tragedy to satire to PowerPoint, Egan captures the undertow of self-destruction that we all must either master or succumb to; the basic human hunger for redemption; and the universal tendency to reach for both—and escape the merciless progress of time—in the transporting realms of art and music. Sly, startling, exhilarating work from one of our boldest writers.
刊于《新京报》) 珍妮弗·伊根的小说《恶棍来访》由13个相对独立、又互有关联的章节组成,像古早磁带般分为A与B两部分——“A到B”也是书中乐手博斯克的专辑名,或按前乐队贝斯手、后成为唱片经纪的本尼的解释,“A是指我俩在乐队里、追同一个女孩的时候。B就是现在。”(P1...
評分刚刚读完《A visit from the goon squad》,结尾处Alex和Bennie回头望去,伊人已不再。再翻回头看Sasha跟Alex相遇时的经历,心里不免有些伤感。 这本书由十几个独立的小故事组成,以不同的人称讲述。书中的人物或多或少有些联系,时间跨度较大。情节在作者强大...
評分初读《时间里的痴人》,最让人印象深刻的就是它的结构了。乍看之下,这是一部由十三篇相对独立的小说组成的短篇集,但是与同样以音乐和音乐人为主题的短篇集——如石黑一雄的《小夜曲:音乐与黄昏五故事集》——不同,《时间里的痴人》中的十三个短篇实则是隶属于整个故事的十...
評分初读《时间里的痴人》,最让人印象深刻的就是它的结构了。乍看之下,这是一部由十三篇相对独立的小说组成的短篇集,但是与同样以音乐和音乐人为主题的短篇集——如石黑一雄的《小夜曲:音乐与黄昏五故事集》——不同,《时间里的痴人》中的十三个短篇实则是隶属于整个故事的十...
評分上周(2011年3月),詹妮弗·伊根的《恶棍来访》获得美国国家书评奖。本周,她又进入橘子文学奖决赛榜单。这些都是评论界和大众对伊根作品的好评,该作品已成畅销书,名列2011年美国“必读书目”的榜首。 对《恶棍来访》好评如潮与它想要成就为社会小说的尝试有关,其同...
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