By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage...(展开全部)

"One of the great classics of Russian prose" (Newsweek), A School for Fools follows a young man with schizophrenia through the chaotic halls of a boarding school for mentally unbalanced children. The narrator's voice is utterly engaging, taking on multiple guises and winding effortlessly through time. He recounts a summer peopled with an eccentric cast of students, townspeople,...(展开全部)

Duluth's theatrical comeback is threatened by a mysterious curse that seems to haunt his new theater. Members of the cast start turning up dead before the curtain call. This book makes nice use of the charcter's Broadway background. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau.

[加]萨沙·索科洛夫，旅美俄裔的后现代主义小说家暨诗人，20世纪俄国文学最重要的作家之一。索科洛夫1943年出生于加拿大渥太华，在莫斯科长大并接受教育，曾做过记者、煤矿工人、夜班警卫和实验室助理等。他的代表作包括《愚人学校》《狗与狼之间》《帕利桑利亚（恐天象症）》等。其中，《愚人学校》是俄罗斯早期后现代主义文学的经典之作，受到当代小说之王纳博科夫等多位著名流亡美国的俄裔作家高度推崇，被翻译成英语、德语、荷兰语、瑞典语、法语、西班牙语、保加利亚语、波兰语等二十多种语言。索科洛夫的小说对当代俄罗斯作家产生了巨大影响。 1981年荣获安德烈·博利奖（Andrey Bely Award，俄罗斯历史最悠久的独立文学奖）；1996年荣获普希金国际文学奖（Pushkin International Prize for Literature）。 ◎插画作者 [俄]卡...(展开全部)

"Don’t be mislead by the concise size (100 pages) of this book. Timothy Pychyl has been helping people change their put-it-off mindsets for twenty years. Each page has been carefully thought out to hold readers’ attention as he tells us how to get about doing what we need to do in order to make our lives more productive and fulfilling. Laced with cartoons to keep readers laughi...(展开全部)

"Don’t be mislead by the concise size (100 pages) of this book. Timothy Pychyl has been helping people change their put-it-off mindsets for twenty years. Each page has been carefully thought out to hold readers’ attention as he tells us how to get about doing what we need to do in order to make our lives more productive and fulfilling. Laced with cartoons to keep readers laughi...(展开全部)

In 2000, when The Informant was published, few would've imagined that a story about price fixing at Archer Daniels Midland could be as un-put-downable as the best crime fiction. Yet critics—and consumers—agreed: The New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald had taken the stuff of dry business reporting and turned it into an unparalleled page-turner. With Conspiracy of Fools, Eich...(展开全部)

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . . It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the...(展开全部)

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the spectacular scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever . . . It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the f...(展开全部)