A Year of Living Alone

A Year of Living Alone

by (us) John Irving

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357Kwords52chapters
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Ch. 52Marion, Seventy-six Years Old
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About This Novel

The masterpiece handed down from generation to generation by John Irving, the master of contemporary literary novels and Haruki Murakami's literary idol! Haruki Murakami: "Reading Irving's books will become addictive, and his readers have become addicts." "A Year Living Alone" is a story about love and growth. It will make you laugh out loud and make you cry silently. When you find love, you also find yourself. Each member in this story is somewhat "abnormal" and they have been looking for another possibility outside of their current lives: Mother Marion, in order to forget the pain of losing her son and her husband's betrayal, sparked a spark with Eddie, a boy who was twenty years younger than herself; father Ted wrote weird children's books while wandering around in the arms of various women; 4-year-old daughter Ruth struggled to grow up and gradually became a writer amid the broken relationship between her parents and the imagination of her dead brother. This year, Ruth was 41 years old and a single mother. During this year of living alone, she met true love again, and suddenly understood her parents' choices and everything that happened to her.

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用户0234786577685mo ago

I don't know what it means, and it feels very negative, which makes me a little negative already. It's more negative and very pornographic. I don't understand it anyway. It didn't make me feel positive energy.

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隔世
隔世天使93mo ago

Understanding love in life

Life is a chameleon, you never know whether you will be hit hard and sad at the next moment, or you will find happiness and love! Love life, wait patiently, be tolerant of things and people around you, read more, and the god of luck will always come.

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用户27649762992mo ago

The storyline has always attracted me and introduced me to a different world. A mother's love for her son is real and touching. I like the ending, beautiful, concise and clever.

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创建国家公共文化服务体系示范区85mo ago

It gives people a "fog" feeling, ugly and bland, and leakage is bland.

It gives people a "fog" feeling, ugly and bland, leaky and bland; the author only looks at the problem with the intelligence of a four-year-old

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Orange Juice88mo ago

One year of living alone made me understand my whole life

Ninety-three days later I finished reading John Owen's "A Year Alone" as the author said Time will also wait for people and will also pause, like now So we must beware of such moments Fifty-three-year-old Eddie waited until seventy-six-year-old Marion Ruth also found her own Dutch policeman in her second marriage Of course Ruth also waited until her mother Marion left her when she was four. All suppressed emotions will be released after Marion appears For example, the tears that Ruth no longer tries to wipe away are the best proof. What Marion said was Eddie and me. It will bring people's memories back to that summer vacation thirty-seven years ago The summer when Eddie and Marion met and got along Named by John Owen "A Year Alone" I think it was the year Ruth was living alone after Alan died Ruth's motherly love was not willing to leave her child Graham behind for a day. It was also at this age that Ruth understood why Marion left her so cruelly when she was four years old. That's the kind of cowardice that doesn't dare to love the third child after losing two children. Marion was afraid that she would also lose Ruth, so she chose not to love and leave. During the year when Ruth lived alone, Eddie also mistakenly thought that he was in love with Ruth. Little did he know that it was a feeling of reluctance for Marion, and he didn't understand it until Ruth remarried. And Hannah's so-called casualism and carpe diem sentimental outlook are puzzling. Hannah seemed to have some sympathy when she said to Eddie that time waits for no one and it's time to let go. Although Hannah and Eddie can only be regarded as friends who are not friends, This made Eddie mistakenly believe that time may really wait for no one. It's really time for me to let go But Eddie can never let go of Marion Eddie knew he could never let Marion go No matter what age Ruth gets, the scar on her finger will always be there. The scar will become a part of Ruth and will not disappear even as time goes by. Someone who knows the location of the scar will find it easily because he knows where the scar is. And people who don't know the location of scars will never know where the scars are. Just like a person's empathy when faced with someone's experience is actually a kind of irony There are always certain stages in a person's life You will want to change your original lifestyle and pursue a new life And the eagerness to change the original way of life and pursue a new life It should be worthy of encouragement and promotion. If you are not the person, you will not be able to understand it. But really falling in love with someone and imagining yourself falling in love with someone Who can tell the difference between It's possible that the so-called true love is just a figment of imagination. Like Mrs. Ritton said, this is a coincidence that can't be a coincidence. How many situations are there in reality that are not like this? It cannot be a coincidence. Marion said sadness is contagious and I don't want you to catch my sadness. Who would want their sadness to be transmitted to the people they care about? Marion said that maybe writing is just a kind of self-therapy, and maybe it also treats others. Anger is much easier to overcome than many other emotions People should feel that weddings should be sacred and we should always remember this day Seeing the world with reason The world is a comedy Seeing the world with sensibility The world is a tragedy But for those who are both rational and emotional, the real world is a tragedy Only the lucky ones will find it a comedy But is this world a comedy or a tragedy? Should we look at it rationally or emotionally? Bravery is accepting what happens to you and making the best of it It is probably right to face rather than escape.

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诗琪麻麻85mo ago

I still don't understand it. I only know that the content is pornographic and the theme is profound. But it's hard for me to understand what the author really wants to express.

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Great Talent and Ambition93mo ago

The angle is very good. It describes the joys and sorrows of a writer who lives his professional life online. An unexpected car accident sets the tone of realism in the novel, which has a strong sense of reality. Is it really good to be a writer? This novel shows such a life.

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136******5495mo ago

Very touching love. The psychological description of the characters is very good. What is difficult to understand is that the large amount of explanations about the contents of the novels written by Ruth and Eddie are a bit redundant and seem to have no importance to the story itself, making it difficult to read.

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星空
星空93mo ago

heavy

I felt very heavy while watching it, and it has a happy ending. What impressed me the most was the phrase "Dear, it's just Eddie and me."

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U1
U19080421396mo ago

My lovely child, I will love you persistently for the rest of my life. It's great to have you in my life!

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