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In Perfect Light电子书

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作       者:Saenz, Benjamin Alire

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-06

字       数:45.8万

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From award-winning poet Benjamin Alire Sáenz comes In Perfect Light, a haunting novel depicting the cruelties of cultural displacement and the resilience of those who are left in its aftermath.In Perfect Light is the story of two strong-willed people who are forever altered by a single tragedy. After Andés Segovia's parents are killed in a car accident when he is still a young boy, his older brother decides to steal the family away to Juárez, Mexico. That decision, made with the best intentions, sets into motion the unraveling of an American family.Years later, his family destroyed, Andés is left to make sense of the chaos -- but he is ill-equipped to make sense of his life. He begins a dark journey toward self-destruction, his talent and brilliance brought down by the weight of a burden too frightening and maddening to bear alone. The manifestation of this frustration is a singular rage that finds an outlet in a dark and seedy El Paso bar -- leading him improbably to Grace Delgado.Recently confronted with her own sense of isolation and mortality, Grace is an unlikely angel, a therapist who agrees to treat Andés after he is arrested in the United States. The two are suspicious of each other, yet they slowly arrive at a tentative working relationship that allows each of them to examine his and her own fragile and damaged past. Andés begins to confront what lies behind his own violence, and Grace begins to understand how she has contributed to her own self-exile and isolation. What begins as an intriguing favor to a friend becomes Grace's lifeline -- even as secrets surrounding the death of Andés' parents threaten to strain the connection irreparably.With the urgent, unflinching vision of a true storyteller and the precise, arresting language of a poet, Sáenz's In Perfect Light bears witness to the cruelty of circumstance and, more than offering escape, the novel offers the possibility of salvation.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Part One

Light and the Sadness of Dreams

Where They Found Him

Timing and Order in the Universe

Grace and Morning Mass

The First Signs of a Storm

Lost Files

Grace

Night

Some Day We’ll All Be Happy

Why He Hated Them

What’s a Boy? What’s a Son?

The World Comes to an End (in One Apocalyptic Moment)

The World Is Born (in One Apocalyptic Moment)

The Order of Things in the Universe

Andrés Segovia. What a Beautiful Name

Irony and Touch

How Everything Comes Back

Studying the Light

Good Things, Bad Things, Good Things

The Angel of God

What’s a Mother?

Dead, You Say?

Grace at Work

Andrés Was Crying

Timing and Order in the Universe

Dave? Grace?

The Light

The Dark

Part Two

Normalcy and Apocalypse

Grace and Morning Mass

Do You Love Me, Mister?

Timing and Order in the Universe

What’s a Mother?

What About the Sky?

Order and Timing in the Universe

There Might Have Been Thunder

Grace at Morning Mass

Shirts and Things That Matter

Still Life of Beauty

Conversations (Because We Live in Our Heads)

Still Life of Freedom

Timing and Order in the Universe

Maybe Everything Would Be All Right

Not This Case, Judge

Grace in the Afternoon

Order and Timing in the Universe

Andrés, You Are That Boy

Mother, Son, Mister, Grace

Until His Heart Bursts into Flames

Timing and Order in the Universe

The Things of This World

Everything but Sleep (in the Middle of the Night)

Part Three

The Silent Love of Countries

Order and Timing in the Universe

Blindness and Books

Learning to Run

Timing and Order in the Universe

The Quiet Before the Storm

Andrés Segovia. That’s a Beautiful Name

Grace and Morning Mass

All the Hovering Angels

Becoming Light

Grace and Morning Mass

No One Can Run from a Fire

Timing and Order in the Universe

Touch

Emancipation—There’s a Word

He Was Happy

Apocalypse: Everything Happens in an Instant (Timing and Order in the Universe)

Grace, Liz, Light, and the Sadness of Dreams

What Are We—Asleep?

No Morning Mass Today

Whatever Gets You Through the Day

Timing and Order in the Universe

Prayer

The Story of Dave

Who Was She Now?

Timing and Order in the Universe

Good Man, Take Me Home

Timing and Order in the Universe

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

Other Books by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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