WHITE OLEANDER
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品牌: Janet Fitch
基本信息·出版社：Little Brown and Company
·出版日期：1999年
·ISBN：0316285080
·条形码：9780316285087
·装帧：平装
·开本：0开
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内容简介White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination to survive and be loved makes her an unforgettable figure.'LIQUID POETRY' - Oprah Winfrey'Tangled, Complex and extraordinarily moving' - Observer--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
作者简介Janet Fitch lives in Los Angeles, where she is working on her next novel.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
媒体推荐书评
Amazon.co.uk Review
Astrid Magnussen, the teenage narrator of Janet Fitch''s engrossing first novel,White Oleander, has a mother who is as sharp as a new knife. An uncompromising poet, Ingrid despises weakness and self- pity, telling her daughter that they are descendants of Vikings, savages who fought fiercely to survive. And when one of Ingrid''s boyfriends abandons her, she illustrates her point, killing the man with the poison of oleander flowers. This leads to a life-sentence in prison, leaving Astrid to teach herself the art of survival in a string of Los Angeles foster homes.As Astrid bumps from trailer park to tract house to Hollywood bungalow, White Oleander uncoils her existential anxieties. "Who was I, really?" she asks. "I was the sole occupant of my mother''s totalitarian state, my own personal history rewritten to fit the story she was telling that day. There were so many missing pieces." Fitch adroitly leads Astrid down a path of sorting out her past and identity. In the process, this girl develops a wire-tight inner strength, gains her mother''s white-blonde beauty, and achieves some measure of control over their relationship. Even from prison, Ingrid tries to mould her daughter. Foiling her, Astrid learns about tenderness from one foster mother and how to stand up for herself from another. Like the weather in Los Angeles--the winds of the Santa Anas, the scorching heat--Astrid''s teenage life is intense. Fitch''s novel deftly displays that, and also makes Astrid''s life meaningful. --Katherine Anderson--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Cosmopolitan
''Hardhitting, compelling and brilliantly written''--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
THE TIMES
''Graceful''--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
OBSERVER
''Tangled, complex and extraordinarily written''--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
THE TIMES
''Graceful''--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
''Poignant, virtuosic and utterly captivating''--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
IN STYLE UK
''Liquid poetry is how Oprah Winfrey described it.''--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
