Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But one night, in the prime of his existence, he hears the moon talking to him on the terrace of a fashionable New York high-rise, and it is urging him to k...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒(1923— )是美国存在主义小说家。他在战后参与政治活动的同时从事文学创作，并接受了存在主义哲学。第一部作品《裸者与死者》是现实主义、自然主义与象征主义三结合的手法写成，具有明显的弗洛伊德学说和尼采思想的影响。此后较重要的作品有《白色黑人》、《一场美国梦》、《巴巴里海滨》、《我们为什么到越南》等。文集有《总统文件》、《食人生番与基督教》、《黑色大军》、《月亮上的火焰》等。但均未产生像《裸者与死者》、《白色黑人》那样的轰动效应。 《白色黑人》和《一场美国梦》是作家引起较大反响的作品。《白色黑人》是对“垮掉的一代”的嬉皮士心理进行分析，从存在主义角度论证了“垮掉的一代”产生的社会意义。从此，批评界将他视为存在主义在美国的代表人物。

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the city in which he was once a privileged citizen, Mailer peels away the layers of our social norms to reveal a world of pure appetite and relentless cruelty. One part Nietzsche, one part de Sade, and one part Charlie Parker, An Americ...(展开全部)

In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost Dream. In breaking down the divisions among standard categories of race, religion, ethnicity, and gender, Hume identifies shared core concerns, values, and techniques among seemingly...(展开全部)

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he ...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)

塔亚莉·琼斯（Tayari Jones） 1970年出生于亚特兰大，美国当代黑人作家。已获众多文学奖项，同时也是罗格斯大学纽瓦克学院副教授，内华达大学黑山学院访问学者。著有四部小说，其中《银雀》（Silver Sparrow）曾入选美国教育协会精选图书库。 2018年出版的《美国式婚姻》在美国已印刷超过500， 000册，被奥巴马列入夏季书单，同时入选奥普拉图书俱乐部，提名美国国家图书奖，Goodreads读者年度选择奖，被评为2018年Apple Books年度最佳书籍。2019年本书获得美国阿斯彭语言文学奖，美国黑人图书馆协会小说文学奖，并入围奥威尔文学奖长名单。 2019年6月5日凭借《美国式婚姻》，塔亚莉获得女性小说奖(Women's Prize for Fiction)，击败去年布克奖得主安娜·伯恩斯（Anna Burns）的和前布克奖得主...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success... "Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power."- The New York Times Book Rev...(展开全部)

"Clyde hated being poor.He saw that people looked down on his family.Not just because they were poor but because they sang and prayer in the streets.So he was always dreaming of how he could get away and better himself." Clyde's dream of wealth and happiness-the American Dream -goes very wrong and ends in tragedy.This novel by Theodore Dreiser is a classic of 20th century Ameri...(展开全部)