The provocative and mind-bending new novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club and Haunted. Rant takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster “Rant” Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Buster Casey was ev...(展开全部)

“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…” Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted....(展开全部)

The provocative and mind-bending new novel from the bestselling author of Fight Club and Haunted. Rant takes the form of a (fictional) oral history of Buster “Rant” Casey, in which an assortment of friends, enemies, admirers, detractors, and relations have their say on this evil character, who may or may not be the most efficient serial killer of our time. Buster Casey was ev...(展开全部)

“Like most people I didn’t meet Rant Casey until after he was dead. That’s how it works for most celebrities: After they croak, their circle of friends just explodes.…” Rant is the mind-bending new novel from Chuck Palahniuk, the literary provocateur responsible for such books as the generation-defining classic Fight Club and the pedal-to-the-metal horrorfest Haunted....(展开全部)

If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters. The most inventive and irresistible book of the year spans a mere 26 letters (don't they all!) and 112 pages. From an Astronaut who's afraid of heights, to a Bridge that ends up burned between friends, to a C...(展开全部)

哈罗德•布鲁姆，当代美国极富影响的文学理论家、批评家。1930年生于纽约，曾执教于耶鲁大学、纽约大学和哈佛大学等知名高校。主要研究领域包括诗歌批评、理论批评和宗教批评，代表作有《西方正典》（1994）、《如何读，为什么读》（2000）、《影响的剖析》（2001）等。被誉为“西方传统中最有天赋、最具原创性和最富煽动性的一位文学批评家”。

Lyric sermons: Riddle-poems that consist only of answers: Lou Reid meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen: The pure hilarious ache of ontology: "Short Talks is elegiac, perceptive, droll. It is the first book-length collection by an accomplished, original voice. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again.

Lyric sermons: Riddle-poems that consist only of answers: Lou Reid meets Claude Monet and converts to Zen: The pure hilarious ache of ontology: "Short Talks is elegiac, perceptive, droll. It is the first book-length collection by an accomplished, original voice. Sunday mornings are never going to be the same again.

[英] 凡妮莎·格比（Vanessa Gebbie），作家、编辑及写作指导教师。著有《玻璃泡沫中的词语》（Words from a Glass Bubble）、《风暴警告》（Storm Warning）、《懦夫的故事》（The Coward’s Tale）等书，其中《懦夫的故事》曾被英国《金融时报》（Financial Times）及《卫报》（Guardian）评为全国年度最佳图书。其诗歌曾获2012年国际民谣诗歌奖（International Troubadour Poetry prize）。 [英] 伊丽莎白·贝恩斯（Elizabeth Baines），英国作家，在博尔顿学院（Bolton Institute）和曼彻斯特大学（Universityof Manchester）教授小说写作课。

[英] 凡妮莎·格比（Vanessa Gebbie），作家、编辑及写作指导教师。著有《玻璃泡沫中的词语》（Words from a Glass Bubble）、《风暴警告》（Storm Warning）、《懦夫的故事》（The Coward’s Tale）等书，其中《懦夫的故事》曾被英国《金融时报》（Financial Times）及《卫报》（Guardian）评为全国年度最佳图书。其诗歌曾获2012年国际民谣诗歌奖（International Troubadour Poetry prize）。 [英] 伊丽莎白·贝恩斯（Elizabeth Baines），英国作家，在博尔顿学院（Bolton Institute）和曼彻斯特大学（Universityof Manchester）教授小说写作课。