文档介绍：Acclaim for Yann Martel's Life of Pi
"Life of Pi is not just a readable and engaging novel, it's a finely twisted length of yarn—yarn implying
a far-fetched story you can't quite swallow whole, but can't dismiss outright. Life of Pi is in this tradition
—a story of uncertain veracity, made credible by the art of the yarn-spinner. Like its noteworthy
ancestors, among which I take to be Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, the Ancient Mariner, Moby
Dick and Pincher Martin, it's a tale of disaster at sea coupled with miraculous survival—a boys'
adventure for grownups." —Margaret Atwood, The Sunday Times (London)
"A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient, this novel
is an impressive achievement. . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of
an emerging master." —Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"[Life of Pi] has a buoyant, exotic, insistence reminiscent of Edgar Allen Poe's most Gothic fiction. . . .
Oddities abound and the storytelling is first-rate. Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality,
outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value
and purpose of fiction." —The Edmonton journal
"Martel's ceaselessly clever writing . . . [and] artful, occasionally hilarious, internal dialogue . . . make a
fine argument for the divinity of good art." —The Gazette
"Astounding and beautiful. . . . The book is a pleasure not only for the subtleties of its philosophy but
also for its ingenious and surprising story. Martel is a confident, heartfelt artist, and his imagination is
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cared for in a writing style that is both unmistakable and marvelously reserved. The ending of Life of
Pi... is a show of such sophisticated genius that I could scarcely keep my eyes in my head as I read it."
—The Vancouver Sun
"I guarantee that you will not be able to put this book down. It is a realistic, gripping story of sur