Jane Smiley 소설 "Golden Age"

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Jane Smiley, "Golden Age: A Novel" (2015)

 

Jane Smiley의 Last One Hundred Years 3부작 소설의 마지막 책.

 처음 두 책 Some Luck과 Early Warning이 1920년부터

1986년까지의, 그리고 이 책은 1987년부터 2019년까지의 이야기다.

 

"A monumental portrait of an American family and

an American century ... Smiley's plot is a marvel of

intricacy that's full of surprises." -- Los Angeles Times

 

Guardian 서평

 

아래는 본문에서 몇 구절:

 

He had accepted that if you were a bookish person the events

in your life took place in your head. (p. 174)

 

If your life remained in your mind, complex and busy, full of

what you had read as wellas what you had done and whom

you had met, you could carry it into the future, and it would

all, somewhat, flow together. That was his hope. (p. 175)

 

Perhaps this was a side effect of the congressional lifestyle --

not perennial youth, but perennial immaturity. (p. 311)

 

[S]omeone like that would have no idea, not only how to love

someone, but that love exists in this world. (p. 321)

 

"Ah," said Claire. "Hmm. What did I love? I think all the

scents. Mama's lilac trees, and the wild iris in the fielss, and

rain on the breeze on a hot day. Apple and pear blossoms.

The hay just cut. The mix of odors in the barn when the

sunlight was shafting through the cracks in the boards,

heating everything up." (p. 438)