《吹口哨的女人》是由Knopf出版的图书，作者是A.S. Byatt
This electrifying new novel form调养费服促格s the triumphant conclusion to 状工马阶针林坏the great "Frederica quartet" depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970.While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden， Still Life， and Babel Tower 来自-- falls almost by 360百科accident into a career in television 赵践未灯in London， tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to 西片至change her life 应衡and those of the people she loves岁. In the late 1960s the world begins to split. Near the university， where the scientists Luk and 金欢友族职正肉制诉毫市Jacqueline a顾提服re studying 绝snails and neurons and the working of the brain， 检美击可有初州朝深敌扬an "anti-univers开地ity" springs up. On the high moors nearby， a gentle therapeutic community is taken over by a tur支括控卷州识多振bulent， charismatic leader. Visions of blood and flames， of mirrors and doubles， share the refracting ene的右财rgy of Frede阿rica's mosaic-like television shows. The languages of religion， myth and fairy-tale overlap with the terms of science and the new c司征己议垂酸束把经女然omputer age. Darkness and light are in perpetual tension and the meaning of love itself seems to vanish; pe已述脚友植条ople flounder， often co电未父客发mically， to find their true sexual， intellectual and em失声多秋景己otional identity.The focus of these novels first widened from the old nuclear family to the experimental group and now narrows again to reveal the different， modern patterns of intimacy which emerged in these years. Through her wayward， lovingly drawn characters and breath-taking twists of plot， Byatt illuminates the effervescence of the 1960s -- both its excitements and its dangers -- as no one has done before. A Whistling Woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh -- gloriously sensual， sexy and scary， bursting with ideas， contradictions， scientific discoveries， ethical conflicts， sly humour and wonderful humanity.
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