SHAME AND WONDER: ESSAYS
Book ID/图书代码： 12844016B91200
English Summary/英文概要： For fans of John Jeremiah Sullivan, Leslie Jamison, Geoff Dyer, and W. G. Sebald, the twenty-one essays in David Searcy’s debut collection are captivating, daring—and completely unlike anything else you’ve read before. Forging connections between the sublime and the mundane, this is a work of true grace, wisdom, and joy.
Expansive in scope but deeply personal in perspective, the pieces in Shame and Wonder are born of a vast, abiding curiosity, one that has led David Searcy into some strange and beautiful territory, where old Uncle Scrooge comic books reveal profound truths, and the vastness of space becomes an expression of pure love. Whether ruminating on an old El Camino pickup truck, those magical prizes lurking in the cereal boxes of our youth, or a lurid online ad for “Sexy Girls Near Dallas,” Searcy brings his unique blend of affection and suspicion to the everyday wonders that surround and seduce us. In “Nameless,” he ruminates on spirituality and the fate of an unknown tightrope walker who falls to his death in Texas in the 1880s, buried as a local legend but without a given name. “The Hudson River School” weaves together Google Maps, classical art, and dental hygiene into a story that explores—with exquisite humor and grace—the seemingly impossible angles at which our lives often intersect. And in “An Enchanted Tree Near Fredericksburg,” countless lovers carve countless hearts into the gnarled trunk of an ancient oak tree, leaving their marks to be healed, lifted upward, and, finally, absorbed.
Haunting, hilarious, and full of longing, Shame and Wonder announces the arrival of David Searcy as an essential and surprising new voice in American writing.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书的文字就好像来自另一个世界。这本包括21篇散文的David Searcy的处女作是罕见的、深刻的、令人深思的。
在接近70岁时，来自德克萨斯的作者David Searcy被纪实文学吸引，开始在记事本上、打字机上创作被他称为《Straight-up》的作品，一系列有关自己想法和兴趣的只言片语。有关被遗忘的棒球场、童年的太空旅行之梦，为自己的儿孙即兴创作的床边小故事，所有这些内容都发展成了非凡的散文，记录了他的生活和这一切的意义。
这些文字所涉及的话题范围很广，但所包含的观点是非常个人化的。本书中的文章在日常的情节中看到了几乎不可思议的魅力，文字和思想的高度均非同一般，是真正的优雅、智慧和快乐的集合。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：本书是天才的作品。这种才能，可以肯定地说，非常特殊。和信息时代的我们相比，本书中提出的问题、潜力、神秘和奇迹比我们那些一成不变的答案要有意义得多了。如今要让自己沉溺于不确定之中是罕见的，但是当David Searcy这样做的时候——他的姿态是轻松的，他的风格是持续的，但他的文字中总是有一抹闹剧和悲剧的色彩——这作品本身便成为了启示，告诉我们作为人类的意义。如果你想要学些东西，实实在在的东西，读这本书吧。（Ben Fountain，著有《Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk》）
David Searcy再次提醒我们，什么样的声音是有意义的，而且为什么这样的一个声音是有用的。从这本书中，我们能够得到一些值得收藏的、独特的东西。这个作家已经发现了让自己的散文风格近乎完美的方法，跟随他的习惯和好奇，作为读者的我们似乎不用花什么力气就能够体会思想的流动。（John Jeremiah Sullivan，著有《Pulphead》）
阅读David Searcy的书和读其他人的书不一样。顺着他的思路，你会收获无限的惊喜。在我接下来的人生中，我会一直想着这本书中的种种智慧。（Leslie Jamison，著有《The Empathy Exams》）
“Astonishment is a quality central to David Searcy’s Shame and Wonder. . . . What unites these twenty-one essays . . . is the sense of a wildly querying intelligence suspended in a state of awe. . . . Searcy is drawn instinctively to moments, the way parcels of time expand and contract in memory, conjuring from ordinary experience a hidden sense of all that is extraordinary in the world, in being alive.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A lovely implicit argument for a particular orientation toward the world: continuous awe and wonder . . . Everywhere, David Searcy finds the strange and marvelous in careful examination of the quotidian.”—NPR
“Peculiar and lively . . . Like a down-home Roland Barthes, [Searcy’s] quirky observations and sudden narrative turns remind us of the strangeness we miss every day.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Often nostalgic and whimsical . . . brings to life the shadows of our kaleidoscopic world.”—The Dallas Morning News
About the Author/作者介绍： David Searcy 曾著有《Ordinary Horror》和《Last Things》，还曾经获得国家艺术基金会的赞助。他住在德州达拉斯。
David Searcy is the author of Ordinary Horror and Last Things, and the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
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