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Kirkus评论
Bell does himself no favors with this weak book of stories: he's a writer whose promise seems to thin with each ever-more slack new book. There ia one good piece--""The Naked Lady,"" a fine tour de force of the grunge-ball demotic--but nearly all else seems written out of either diaristic impulse--Lousy Neighborhoods I Have Lived In (""The Lie Detector,"" ""Irene,"" ""I Love NY,"" ""The Forgotten Bridge""); and a Princeton-ia piece entitled ""Structure and Meaning of Dormitory and Food Services""--or as a warm-up for an already published book (in this case, in the title story, the adventures of a professional soundman--much reminiscent of the film editor in Bell's previous Straight Cut). Additionally, the stories set in inner-city slums have a surely not-intended yet telling aftertaste: a young writer's not-too-involved ""using"" of experience to make fiction--all of it a little too casual, though, to make good fiction. Bell seems more and more a frustrated screenwriter--quick bunts, flash, speed--as he goes farther and farther from the ammoniac craziness and density of his first and best book, The Washington Square Ensemble (1983). Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Some of Bell's readers were a bit disappointed by Straight Cut (Booklist 83:29 S 1 86), his last novel, but any book would have had a rough time trailing in the wake of his apocalyptic Waiting for the End of the World (81:1629 Ag 85) Here, in this rich collection of short stories, Bell's stature as an artist is reaffirmed. These are eerie mood pieces, projecting an oddly electric yet static atmosphere of melancholy and inertia. The settings for these distinct 11 stories range from lonely, desolate southern farms and towns to gloomy Princeton, grimy Hoboken, dangerous New York and, finally, the overwhelming Great Plains of the Little Bighorn. Each tale is an examination of psychotic nuances. Bell's characters are solitary and excel at the art of doing nothing. While morbidity, depression, and incomprehension inform each plot, they are countered by endurance and purity of vision. Bell's senses are sure and keen his prose seductive and trustworthy. DK. [CIP] 86-14548
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Bell, author of the critically well-received novel Waiting for the End of the World ( LJ 9/15/85), among others, writes with razor-sharp precision of grim doings in the rural South and the seamy side of urban New York. His stories have sharply delineated characters who generally seem to be unhappy or desperate. In ``Irene,'' for instance, a man who has settled in a forlorn Puerto Rican neighborhood of Newark watches, as an outsider, a young girl learning to survive in her own world. As observers of life, the people in these stories possess a clarity of vision that startles the reader, but the dreariness of their realities is what lingers in the mind. For serious fiction collections. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.