新SAT阅读备考书籍推荐：3本美国高中生的课外读物

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书籍推荐：

1.Winesburg,Ohio/小城畸人 (Sherwood Anderson)

背景介绍：

1916年，安德森发表了带有浓重自传体风格的小说《饶舌的麦克佛逊的儿子》(Windy McPherson's

Son)，从此一发而不可收拾。1919年《小城畸人》(Winesburg,Ohio)的发表使安德森获得极大的成功，奠定了他在美国文学史上的地位。

《小城畸人》是美国早期现代主义小说中颇具争议的一部。书中安德森刻画了一座小城镇中的人物，这群人被他称之为畸人，畸人的“畸”并不表现在外表上，而体现在他们的个性上。他们都具有“奇异美丽的个性”，有着常人没有的某一行为动作或是某一坚定信念，因而他们的行为或信念在常人看来是不可思议的、奇怪的，被看作是畸人。尽管畸人的个性不同，他们却有着共同的心理特质。小说的背景是美国内战后的几十年，这正是美国完成工业革命、迅速发展资本主义的阶段。一向主宰美国社会的乐观主义谢下帷幕，对传统道德的怀疑、美国梦造成的幻灭感浮出水面。书中体现的不是洋溢着对生命、大自然赞美的乐观主义情绪，而是生命中的种种困境和无助的情绪。

内容摘录：

When she got into bed she buried her face in the pillow and wept，broken

heartedly.

"What is the matter with me? I will do somethingdreadful if I am not

careful," she thought, and turning her face to thewall, began trying to force

herself to face bravely the fact that many peoplemust live and die alone, even

in Winesburg.

2.Go Tell It On the Mountain/向苍天呼吁 (James Baldwin)

背景介绍：

詹姆斯·鲍德温是美国黑人小说家、散文家、戏剧家和社会批评家，他还是个有多方面才能的作家，创作过多种体裁的作品，他写得最好也最出名的是散文，算得上是第二次世界大战后美国最杰出的散文家之一。

Go Tell It on the Mountain是James Baldwin

1953年出版的半自传体小说。小说探讨了基督教教会在非裔美国人的生活中扮演的角色，作者认为教会既是社会压迫和伪善的代表，同时也在生活中起到了正面的作用。更微妙的,它可以从侧面反映出种族主义当时在美国的真实情况。这本小说是成长小说中的典型代表。

内容摘录：

The church was not very far away, four block up Lenox Avenue, on a corner

not far fromthe hospital. It was to this hospital that his mother had gone when

Roy, and Sarah, and Ruth wereborn. John did not remember very clearly the first

time she had gone, to have Roy; folks said thathe had cried and carried on the

whole time his mother was away; he remembered only enough tobe afraid every time

her belly began to swell, knowing that each time the swelling began it wouldnot

end until she was taken from him, to come back with an stranger. Each time this

happened shebecame a little more of a stranger herself. She would soon be going

away again, Roy said—heknew much more about such things than John. John had

observed his mother closely, seeing no swelling yet, but his father had prayed

one morning for the "little voyager soon to be among them,"...

3.Seize the Day/只争朝夕 (Saul Bellow)

背景介绍：

贝娄的一生可以说是集学者与作家于一身，在创作上继承了欧洲现实主义文学的某些传统，并采用了现代主义的一些观念和手法，强调表现充满矛盾和欲望的反英雄。曾三次获美国全国图书馆，一次普利策奖，1968年，法国政府授予“文学艺术骑士勋章”。