Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from h...(展开全部)

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. “A charmer...satisfyingly quirky.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Books to Breeze Through This Summer” "This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance….Hilarious and moving."—People No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be bet...(展开全部)

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from h...(展开全部)

Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon. “A charmer...satisfyingly quirky.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Books to Breeze Through This Summer” "This wacky, charming novel...draws you in with humor, then turns out to contain both a suspenseful subplot and a sweet romance….Hilarious and moving."—People No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be bet...(展开全部)

Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt (her second), National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the W...(展开全部)

The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Shipping News' and 'Brokeback Mountain'. 'Fine Just The Way It Is' marks Annie Proulx's return to the Wyoming of 'Brokeback Mountain' and the familiar cast of hardy, unsentimental prairie folk. The stories are cast over centuries, and capture the voices and lives of the settlers this sagebru...(展开全部)

死の床にある父親から、僕は三十五年前に別れた元恋人を捜すように頼まれた。手がかりは若かりし頃の彼女の画。僕は大学に通う傍ら、彼らが一緒に住んでいたアパートへ向かった。だが、そこにいたのは画と同じ美しい彼女と、若き日の父だった…(「イエスタデイズ」より)。異例のロングセラーとなり、新世代の圧倒的共感を呼んだ著者初の恋愛小説、待望の文庫化。

死の床にある父親から、僕は三十五年前に別れた元恋人を捜すように頼まれた。手がかりは若かりし頃の彼女の画。僕は大学に通う傍ら、彼らが一緒に住んでいたアパートへ向かった。だが、そこにいたのは画と同じ美しい彼女と、若き日の父だった…(「イエスタデイズ」より)。異例のロングセラーとなり、新世代の圧倒的共感を呼んだ著者初の恋愛小説、待望の文庫化。

In Lisa Genova’s extraordinary New York Times bestselling novel, an accomplished woman slowly loses her thoughts and memories to Alzheimer’s disease—only to discover that each day brings a new way of living and loving. Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, and Kristen Stewart! Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children an...(展开全部)

Neuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's m...(展开全部)