Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest i...(展开全部)

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest i...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade." She stared at the picture, squinti...(展开全部)

Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron; ruthless manipulator, brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Medellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President'...(展开全部)

博比•安•梅森（Bobbie Ann Mason），1940年5月1日出生于肯塔基州，是美国当代著名的小说家、文学批评家。她与四个兄弟姐妹一起在肯塔基梅菲尔德城外的一个奶牛农场长大，高中毕业后进入肯塔基大学学习英语文学。然后来到纽约，先后在几家电影杂志供职撰写文章。1966年她在纽约州立大学获得硕士学位，1972年于康涅狄格大学取得文学博士学位。 梅森在近四十岁时才开始小说创作。她的第一篇作品1980年发表在《纽约客》，此后便在1982年出版了第一本小说集《夏伊洛公园》。1985年出版的长篇《在乡村》（In Country）被改编为同名电影。 梅森的写作推动了美国80年代“地方小说”的复兴，并开创了一种全新的、被评论家称为“超市现实主义”的风格。她在1983年凭《夏伊洛公园》获得美国笔会海明威奖，同年获得美国艺术基金奖（NEA），2000年凭回忆录《...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him depeno 1- ble, But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade" She...(展开全部)

A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic.

A Country Doctor is the third such volume of Kafka's stories published by Prague's Twisted Spoon Press, following A HUNGER ARTIST and CONTEMPLATION. It includes 15 stories and sketches, included the famed parable "Before the Law, " "Jackals and Arabs, " "A Fratricide" and "A Report from an Academy" among them. ImPorted from the Czech Republic.

A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut's hilarious and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die-God forbid-I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, 'Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?'"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bou...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “[This] may be as close as Vonnegut ever comes to a memoir.” – Los Angeles Times “Like [that of] his literary ancestor Mark Twain, [Kurt Vonnegut’s] crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted. . . . [Reading A Man Without a Country is] like sitting down on the couch for a long chat with an old friend.” –The New York Times Book Review In a vo...(展开全部)