美国女作家乔伊斯·卡洛尔·欧茨善于用意识流的细微笔触,描绘社会中遭受各种折磨人的内心世界,开掘当代人特别是女性的心理活动,从而引起读者深切的兴趣与同情.她六十年代后期一直到现在,在美国文坛上独领风骚几达五分之四的世纪之久,不是个偶然现象.最近纽约林顿书屋的亚伯拉罕斯图书版出 Joyce Carroll Oz, the American woman writer, is adept at using the subtle brushstrokes of the stream of consciousness to depict the tortured inner world in society and to dig out the psychological activities of contemporary people, especially women, thus arousing readers’ deep interest It is no coincidence that she lived in the American literary arena for as many as four fifths of a century, until the present time in the late 1960s, and most recently Abraham Books of Luton House in New York