Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define--she brilliantly extends her achievement. More powerfully than ever before, Simpson uncovers the nature of longing and belonging, of blood relatio...(展开全部)

Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father , won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the absent father. This time the ...(展开全部)

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she meets a boy who likes wearing pr...(展开全部)

Winner of the Campiello Prize. A pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s translator. “I was the Arminuta, the girl returned. I spoke another language, I no longer knew who I belonged to. The word ‘mama’ stuck in my throat like a toad. And, nowadays, I really have no idea what kind of place mother is. It is not mine in the way one might have good he...(展开全部)

I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice and all things nice. But I'm sweet and sour and not a little flower. I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl! The girl in this book likes to win, she likes to be spontaneous, fast and strong, and because she also likes to dress in t-shirt and shorts, she is forever getting mistaken for a boy. And when she meets a boy who likes wearing pr...(展开全部)

作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。 出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。 2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。 戈登目前...(展开全部)

作者：金·戈登，生于1953年，美国实验后朋克乐队“音速青年”创始成员兼主唱和贝斯手，被视作女权主义力量的灯塔，有“后朋克女神”之称。 出现于纽约的“音速青年”，是史上最具影响力的乐队之一，他们的传奇持续影响着独立摇滚和美国流行文化。戈登多年来在舞台上以神秘而疏离的气质著称，毫无女孩气，也不倒向男人气，与这支男性主导的纽约噪音乐队共同奋斗三十余年，更将自己的活动扩展至时尚、表演和艺术等领域，成为女性力量存在的鲜活证明。 2011年“音速青年”解散后，戈登组建了乐队“身体/头脑”（Body/Head）。2014年，出版艺术评论文集《这是我的身体吗？》（Is It My Body?），并在洛杉矶高古轩画廊（Gagosian Gallery)、纽约白色廊柱画廊（White Columns）、纽约303画廊（303 Gallery）举行个人艺术展。 戈登目前...(展开全部)