事与愿违 AMY TAN THE OPPOSITE OF FATE
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作者： Amy Tan 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2005-12-1字数：版次： 1页数： 398印刷时间： 2003/10/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780399150746包装： 精装内容简介
Tan's bestselling works of fiction are, in part, based on her own family history, and this robust book, her first nonfiction effort, explains much about where those stories came from and how they influenced her. The collection of "casual pieces" (previously published in such diverse venues as Harper's Bazaar, Ski Magazine, the New Yorker, Salon.com and even PW) covers Tan's childhood in California and Switzerland; her writing career; her relationships with her mother and her late editor, Faith Sale; and, most significantly, the role of fate in her life. Raised with "two pillars of beliefs" (Christian faith on her father's side; Chinese fate on her mother's), Tan finds luckboth good and badin all corners of her life. Ultimately, however, she knows "a higher power knows the next move and... we are at the mercy of that force." As she reflects on how things have happened in her 50-odd years, Tan's writing varies from poetic to prosaic. In an excerpt from a journal she kept during a 1990 trip to China, she eloquently describes Shanghai's streets: "Gray pants and white shirts are suspended from long bamboo poles that overhang the street. The laundry flaps in the wind like proletarian banners." But reading about Tan's adventures with her rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders, feels a bit like reading someone else's high school yearbook's inside jokes, as she reminisces about truck-stop breakfasts and late-night sing-alongs. Still, this is a powerful collection that should enthrall readers of The Joy Luck Club and Tan's other novels. B&w photos.
目录
A Note to the Reader
FATE AND FAITH
The CliffsNotes Version of My Life
How We Knew
A Question of Fate
Faith
CHANGING THE PAST
Last Week
My Grandmother's Choice
Thinly Disguised Memoir
Persona Errata
Scent
AMERICANCIRCUMSTANCESANDCHINESECHARACTER
Fish Cheeks
Dangerous Advice
Midlife Confidential
Arrival Banquet
Joy Luck and Hollywood
STRONG WINDS,STRONGINFLUENCES
What She Meant
Confessions
Pretty Beyond Belief
The Most Hateful Words
My Love Affair with Vladimir Nabokov
LUCK, CHANCE,AND A CHARMEDLIFE
Inferior Decorating
Room with a View, New Kitchen, and Ghosts
Retreat to Reality
My Hair, My Face, My Nails
The Ghosts of My Imagination
A CHOICE OF WORDS
HOPE