The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. He can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spe...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

A vivid, passionate and intensely moving novel from prize-winning author John Green. "In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too." BEFORE. Miles Halter's whole life has been one big...(展开全部)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

First drink, first prank, first friend, first girl, last words! A poignant and moving crossover novel about making friends and growing up from American author, John Green. Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words -- and tired of his safe, boring and rather lonely life at home. He leaves for boarding school filled with cautious optimism, to seek what the dying poet Franc...(展开全部)

Before . Miles “Pudge” Halter’s whole life has been one big non-event. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-butboring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young pu...(展开全部)

让-菲利普·图森（Jean-Philippe Toussaint，1957年出生），比利时法语小说家，法国“新小说”新一代的代表人物之一（图森自己称其作品为“新新小说”）。图森1957年出生于比利时，1972年起定居法国，他的小说均由法国著名的午夜出版社出版。 截至2005年图森已出版的小说包括有：《浴室》（1985年）、《先生》（1986年）、《照相机》（1989年）、《迟疑》（1998年）、《电视》（1998年）、《自画像（在国外）》（2000年）、《做爱》（2002年）和《逃跑》（获得2005年法国“美第奇图书奖”）、《齐达内的忧郁》（2006年）。此外他还导演电影《先生》（改编自同名小说，1990年）、《塞维利亚人》（改编自《照相机》，1993年）以及《溜冰场》（1998年）。《玛丽的真相》是让-菲利普·图森发表于2009年的新作，与《做爱》...(展开全部)

The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation. The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, b...(展开全部)