
同类推荐
热门推荐
故事会(2015年7月下)
最近读到一个故事,故事虽短小,却令我久久咂摸,反复玩味。一名专栏作家同一个多年不见的老同学会面,喝到微醺时,两人聊起了从前的学校生活。老同学呷了一口酒,红着脸说起了一个秘密。他说,那一年,同班的一个女孩,偷偷给他送过一封情书。这事儿,他没和任何人讲过。他记得,女孩把情书夹在了他数学课本的第15页和第16页之间。因为前一天的数学课,老师讲到第14页,而第15页,正好是第二天要学的。The Homecoming
Years after the events of Spencer's Mountain, Clay Spencer—Clay-Boy's father—fails to return home on Christmas Eve. Leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy's search for his father is told with warmth and intensity.Along with its prequel, Spencer's Mountain, The Homecoming was the inspiration for the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Andrew Duggan, and Patricia Neal, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. Over fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to move and inspire.