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)

[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)

Book Description This is an account of the largest on-the-scene study of U.S. schools ever undertaken. Called 'A Study of Schooling' and carried on over 4 years， trained investigators went into more than 1，000 classrooms in 38 elementary and secondary schools in seven different sections of the United States. These schools were located in urban， rural， and suburban areas. The i...(展开全部)

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Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, "A Good S...(展开全部)

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American ficiton as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer. In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, "A Good S...(展开全部)

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. What’s worse is she can’t persuade her husba...(展开全部)