The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

Iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart—what we expect, what we think we want, and what we feel entitled to. They offer a unique window into our personal and cultural attitudes about love,...(展开全部)

Iconic couples’ therapist and bestselling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a provocative look at relationships through the lens of infidelity. Affairs, she argues, have a lot to teach us about the human heart—what we expect, what we think we want, and what we feel entitled to. They offer a unique window into our personal and cultural attitudes about love,...(展开全部)

How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now? Combining "a scholar's rigo...(展开全部)

How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now? Combining "a scholar's rigo...(展开全部)

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, dra...(展开全部)

CAN SHE ESCAPE THE PERSON SHE ONCE LOVED? Beth Murphy is on the run… For nearly a year, Beth has been plotting to leave her abusive husband. This is her one chance at freedom—one that requires a new look, new name and new city. Each part of her plan has to be carefully thought out, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. Sabine Hardison is missing… A coupl...(展开全部)

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself rema...(展开全部)

科蒂斯·希登弗尔德，因长篇小说处女作《奥尔特校园手记》（PREP）而声名鹊起的美国才女型作家，一九七六年出生，十六岁时在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年，她在《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛中获奖。他的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上，还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员，曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。《奥尔特校园手记》当选为《纽约时报》二00五年十佳图书之一，并入围英国的奥兰治奖。他的第二部长篇小说《致我的青蛙王子》。（The Man of my Drdam）也颇受好评。《美国夫人》（American Wife）是希登费尔德的第三部长篇小说，被《纽约时报》评选为二00九年值得关注的图书，同时被亚马逊网上书店、《芝加哥论坛报》、《娱乐》周刊、美国公共广播电台、《人物》...(展开全部)