书籍介绍
这不是一本关于「如何活得精彩」的小说，而是一次对衰老与死亡的诚实对峙。劳尔特让倔强的 Olive 坦承「我怕死，怕得要命」，却又在同一刻说「好吧，那就走吧」——这种恐惧与释然并存的态度，构成了全书最打动人的内核。它真正写的是：当一个老人意识到「让她不满的，其实是她自己」时，是否还来得及与自己和解。书中没有惊天动地的事件，只有涂脚趾甲、二月清晨的光、一句二十年前的数学课遗言，这些微小瞬间里藏着巨大的情感重量。它适合愿意慢下来、在平凡人物身上看见命运褶皱的读者；若你期待戏剧冲突，这里只会给你一片寂静的、闪着金光的二月。
作者简介
Elizabeth Strout is the author of several novels, including: Abide with Me, a national bestseller and BookSense pick, and Amy and Isabelle, which won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in England. In 2009 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her book Olive Kitteridge. Her short stories have been published in a number of magazines, including The New Yorker. She teaches at the Master of Fine Arts program at Queens University of Charlotte.
AI导读
核心看点
- 普利策奖得主斯特劳特续写奥莉芙晚年生活
- 以短篇连缀形式展现缅因小镇众生相
- 直面衰老、孤独与死亡的残酷与温情
读者共识
- 文字简洁有力，蕴含巨大的情感张力
- 对衰老与死亡的描写真实且令人动容
- 奥莉芙的‘二月之光’成为经典意象
精彩摘录
- "“I’m scared to death of dying. I really am. I can feel it coming so fast—whoosh! Jesus, it all goes so fast these days. But you know what?” “What?” “I don’t really care, either. I mean, about dying. It’s so strange, Bobby. Because on one hand I have these moments—or I had these moments before I got "
- "“You know, I just want to say, Mrs. Kitteridge told us, years ago in that math class—I will never forget it—one day she just stopped a math problem she was doing on the board and she turned around and she said to the class, ‘You all know who you are. If you just look at yourself and listen to yourse"
- "What she would have written about was the light in February. How it changed the way the world looked People complained about February; it was cold and snowy and oftentimes wet and damp, and people were ready for spring. But for Cindy the light of the month had always been like a secret, and it remai"
- "Personality disorder? Given the extensive and widespread array of human emotions, why was anything a personality disorder? And who came up with such a term?"
- "Her house, the house she and Henry had built so many years ago, the house that looked small now and would be razed to the ground by whoever bought it, the property was what mattered. But she saw behind her closed eyes the house, and inside her was a shiver that went through her bones. The house wher"
- "But whenever someone says they’re an atheist, I always privately have this bad reaction, and they give all the obvious reasons, you know, kids get cancer, earthquakes kill people, all that kind of stuff. But when I hear them, I think: But you are barking up the wrong tree.” She added, “But I couldn’"
- "“Imagine at my age, starting over again.” Olive put the towel in her lap and raised one opened hand slightly. “But it’s never starting over, Cindy, it’s just continuing on.”"
- "Here is the thing that Cindy, for the rest of her life, would never forget: Olive Kitteridge said, “My God, but I have always loved the light in February.” Olive shook her head slowly. “My God,” she repeated, with awe in her voice. “Just look at that February light.”"
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用户评论
the retrospective sorrow and vulnerability of old age. She did not have a clue who she had been.
啊我好爱这个老太太
看完两本我才恍然大悟
她唯一的标准就是honest
I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.
很喜欢这一本，个人觉得比上一部要好看。中间部分很emo，尤其是The Poet那一部分看得让我心如刀割，一度以为这种致郁风会持续到结尾，但结局Olive和Isabelle的相处却透露出淡淡的温馨（？）。或许是Olive终于释怀了，她能坦诚地接受自己，坦诚地面对死亡，正如文中结尾所写的：I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.
Aging, loneliness, death, and small moments of kindness.
模仿Jack发送How’s it GOING???? 并不意外地进入了垃圾箱
a bit more contrived than the first book
花了一个上午的时间重新读了一遍。和之前几次的感受很不一样，读完反而释然了。“it was herself, she realized, that did not please her”, “But it was too late to be thinking that—”好像我和olive一起过了一生，现在我也明白偶尔应该抬起头看看天空，偶尔也应该回过头看看过去了。
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