American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman d...(展开全部)

American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman d...(展开全部)

玛丽•菲利普（Marie Phillips），1976年出生于伦敦，剑桥大学毕业，主修人类学与纪录片制作。毕业后曾在电视圈工作数年，近年专心从事写作。本书是她专职创作后的第一本小说，一出版便获得各方肯定，其电视剧和电影版权已由好莱坞新科喜剧状元本•斯蒂勒（Ben Stiller）的制片公司Red Hour films购得，计划开拍中。

在线阅读本书 Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more abo...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's been killed in a terrible accident. Flying home for the funeral, as a violent storm rocks the plane, a strange man in the seat next to him introduces himself. The man calls himself Mr. Wednesday, and he knows more abo...(展开全部)

After three years in prison, Shadow has done his time. But as the time until his release ticks away, he can feel a storm brewing. Two days before he gets out, his wife Laura dies in a mysterious car crash, in adulterous circumstances. Dazed, Shadow travels home, only to encounter the bizarre Mr Wednesday claiming to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of ...(展开全部)

Alice Lindgren出生在1940年，非常喜愛閱讀並擔任圖書管理員的她從沒想過有一天竟然會嫁給總統，成為第一夫人。 在位於美國威斯康辛州小鎮的家鄉裡，她從小被父母灌輸學習女性的美德與禮儀，但17歲那年，一場突如其來的意外改變了日後的生命歷程。十多年後，Alice結識了一位出生於共和黨政治世家的紈褲子弟，最終被他的誠意打動，陷入熱戀，並走入婚姻。 當她的丈夫順利地擔任政府要職，並意外地成為美國總統後，她發現自己嫁給了一個她確實深愛著、卻與自己想法相左的丈夫。不僅如此，還要參加跟自己信仰完全不同的宗教儀式。 她的丈夫即將再度連任，Alice必須正視存在內心裡這多年來所累積的矛盾與面對幾乎不可能有答案的問題。

On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House–and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, “almost in opposition to itself.” A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid pare...(展开全部)

Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not...(展开全部)

菲利普•罗斯（1933-2018） 1997年，菲利普•罗斯凭借《美国牧歌》摘得普利策文学奖。1998年，罗斯在白宫受颁美国国家艺术勋章。2002年，他又获得美国艺术文学院颁发的最高荣誉——虚构类作品金奖，该奖的往届获奖者有约翰•多斯•帕索斯、威廉•福克纳、索尔•贝娄等著名作家。罗斯于1960年、1996年分别凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》和《萨巴斯的剧院》两度将美国国家图书奖揽入囊中。此外，他还获得美国书评人协会奖两次，笔会/福克纳奖三次。罗斯的《反美阴谋》被誉为“2003-2004年度以美国为主题的优秀历史小说”，于2005年荣获美国历史学家协会奖和W.H.史密斯文学奖年度最佳图书。罗斯也因此成为W.H.史密斯文学奖设立四十六年以来首位两度获奖的作家。 2005年，罗斯成为第三位由美国文库为其出版权威版作品全集的在世作家。此后，罗斯接连获得笔会/纳博...(展开全部)