All Fours - Miranda July

All Fours

Miranda July

出版时间

2024-05-14

ISBN

9780593190265

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.

"A giddy, bold, mind-blowing tour de force by one of our most important literary writers."—George Saunders, Booker-Prize winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo

"Profound and bawdy and deeply human, a brilliant work of art from a completely blown open and fearless mind."—Emma Cline, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest

“A frank and delirious ode to love in all its forms… just as brilliantly funny and strangely touching as you might expect.” —Vogue

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.

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4.5 我服
欲望的高高举起与轻轻放下
我本人hormones driven overthinking
人们总是喜欢成长小说:那些年轻、迷茫的灵魂,在混乱中燃烧,在欲望中前行,他们的热血点燃了自己、点燃了周遭的一切、也点燃了我们沉寂的生活……混乱又迷人。 可当成长小说超出了“青春期”的范畴呢? All Fours就此展开:拥有“完美生活”的中年女性独自踏上前往纽约的公路旅行。然而,车刚开出去仅三十分钟,她便无法抑制内心的冲动——渴望释放、迷失,甚至永不被找到。她看着前方,突然希望再次成为那个愚蠢无知、等待“成长”的人。 这故事的前1/3也因此令人着迷——混乱、勇敢、不成熟的冲动,一切既真实又荒诞。只可惜,它的后半部分却变得刻意和虚假。可能最令我伤心的是,这故事的走向仿佛在反复逼迫我接受她塑造的结局,可我怎样无法信服。 或许,比起结局,我更希望这段“成长旅程”永远不会真正结束。
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