Audition - Barbara Walters

Audition

Barbara Walters

出版社

Knopf

出版时间

2008-05-06

ISBN

9780307266460

评分

★★★★★
精彩摘录
  • "And the scene that had troubled me so deeply, it had become the scene I looked forward to the most, the transition from the first half of the play into the second, the instant of transformation— the play's hinge. As soon as I arrived at the theater I could not wait to be inside the scene, I anticipa"
  • "However, I could already see that Xavier would succeed, not simply because he was exceptionally mutable but because that mutability did not seem to cost him very much. He did not seem any less himself, he did not seem to be troubled or even to feel those shifts in his being."
  • "As she spoke, I was a little taken by surprise, I had not especially thought of the character as cold. She made a little grimace, as if she had a bad or bitter taste in her mouth, she seemed to feel a certain amount of contempt toward the very character she had created and centered her story around,"
  • "He sat back in his chair with a soft exhalation. It was a perfectly expressive movement— from the fluttering of the lips at the exhalation of air, the slight slump of the shoulders before the little wriggle back upright— although I did not know exactly what it meant. I felt a little pity for him. Bu"
  • "For so many years there had been the tacit understanding that I contained the threat to the marriage, that it was housed inside me. And for all those years I had tamped down every impulse to stray, I had lived inside a straitjacket of my own devising, and I had remained true. But in the end, he was "
作者简介
Katie Kitamura is the author of four previous novels, most recently A Separation and Intimacies, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was a finalist for a Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize in Literature, a Lannan fellowship, and many other honors, and her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.
用户评论
坦率的态度。曲折的人生,平静道来,50多年的历史,沉甸甸的捧在手上。再次印证了,有经历的人生,才是丰富的人生。希望有机会能再读一遍。
中英版本比较,少了一段90年采访中国领导人的。之前看得兴致勃勃,到了残酷形容中国领导人那段,有点悲哀。即便是新闻皇后也大致是别国的吧。
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