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.
作者:钟娜 经澎湃新闻授权转载,原发于2019年2月26日 澎湃新闻 从照片上看,你会以为美国作家珍妮弗·伊根(Jennifer Egan)有些难以接近:哪怕光看肩膀以上的特写,你也会感觉到她的高大与飒爽;鹰隼般的鼻梁、锐利的双目、硬朗的轮廓。这一切都让人想起她笔下那些有棱角的、...
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...
評分本人较早看过该书原版,也忝列译者这一行列,自知对其尚有发言权。看了这段译文后,觉得译者译得已算相当不错,而且对原文语体的把握,也算很贴切了。 当然其中也有误,从各种状况分析,有的是译错(从本人的经验来看,被动语态的译错,简单字的译错,简单句型的译...
評分这是一部群像小说,出场人物无论曾经年少轻狂,还是后来进入职业生涯,他们的人生或多或少均与音乐(主要是摇滚)产生衔接,作者因此将人物与故事有意装入A,B两大部分以及其下有标题的具体章节,如同一盘磁带的A,B两面和灌入载体内的一首首歌曲。其结构的别具一格之处,还在于...
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...
大概是過去一年裏看的最好的書。#BookClub
评分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
评分這本書的結構非常有意思,A, B講不同時代的故事。故事本身一個個也各有韆鞦,那麼多的人物全麵鋪開,詳細寫道,不容易。
评分time is a goon.時間是條惡棍
评分神書一本…我甚至都推薦給鄧同學瞭
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