Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable a...(展开全部)

A Woman’s Story is Annie Ernaux’s "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who...(展开全部)

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable a...(展开全部)

This is the 20th-anniversary edition of team leader Arlene Blum's best-selling account of the history-making 1978 ascent of Annapurna by the American Women's Himalayan Expedition. A classic story in the annals of women's achievements, Annapurna was the first account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy to be told from a woman's perspective. A huge critical and commercial succe...(展开全部)

This is the 20th-anniversary edition of team leader Arlene Blum's best-selling account of the history-making 1978 ascent of Annapurna by the American Women's Himalayan Expedition. A classic story in the annals of women's achievements, Annapurna was the first account of mountaineering triumph and tragedy to be told from a woman's perspective. A huge critical and commercial succe...(展开全部)

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence. Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free. This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of m...(展开全部)

A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author’s mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence. Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: “I did it. I left your father.” Suddenly, she was free. This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman’s liberation: of m...(展开全部)

恰克‧ 帕拉尼克Chuck Palahniuk, 1962-出生美国靠近沙漠地带小镇，身上流有俄罗斯和法国裔的血液，恰克‧帕拉尼克小孩子时，和双亲去墓园探望祖父母的墓地，面对墓碑上的名字，询问他的姓Palahniuk要如何发音，他的母亲指着墓碑上祖父母的的名字，告诉他，就是他来自乌克兰的祖父和祖母的名字，帕拉(Paula)和尼克 (Nick)，连起来念。所以也就是帕拉尼克。 他的祖父尼克‧ 帕拉尼克谋杀了他的祖母帕拉‧ 帕拉尼克后，带着枪准备将他四岁的父亲斐德列一起宰掉，但他躲在床底逃过一劫，他的祖父尼克随后用枪把自己的头轰掉。五十多年过后，他的父亲斐德列‧ 帕拉尼克在三结三离之后，因地方报纸上的「我爱红娘」personals，开始和年轻的女人唐娜约会，唐娜的前夫戴尔因为对妻子性虐待而吃上牢饭，假释后尾随斐列德和唐娜的车，跟踪他们，于他们过夜后要开车...(展开全部)

Book Description The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club. Chuck Palahniuk's outrageous and startling debut novel that exploded American literature and spawned a movement. Every weekend, in the basements and parking lots of bars across the country, young men with white-collar jobs and failed lives take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other b...(展开全部)