A tour-de-force of imaginative literature -- by the winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best Gay NovelThree millenia old, the story of the Trojan War is one of the benchmark works of the Western canon. The very definition of the word epic, writers -- ancient and modern -- have used it to explain history, define ...(展开全部)

An Arrow’s Flight is a joyous and eccentric tour-de-force by the author of American Studies and Man About Town. The siege of Troy has dragged on for ten years, with no end in sight, when an oracle supplies the Greeks with the recipe for victory. All they need is Pyrrhus, son of the fallen Achilles. But Pyrrhus has been putting his godlike form to profitable use as a go-go dance...(展开全部)

The award-winning An Arrow's Flight tells the story of the Trojan War and Pyrrhus, the son of the fallen Achilles, now working as a go-go boy and hustler in the big city. Magically blending ancient headlines and modern myth, Merlis creates a fabulous new world where legendary heroes declare their endowments in personal ads and any panhandler may be a divinity in disguise. Comic...(展开全部)

The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly sets his novels of suspense against a world divided by race, politics, money, and the media. Here he thrusts Detective Harry Bosch on a harrowing journey into a high-profile murder case--and darkness... An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But ...(展开全部)

The simplest, most intuitive book on the toughest lessons of flight--addresses the science of flying in terms, explanations, and illustrations that make sense to those who most need to understand: tho

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world. Flight Behavior transfixes from its opening scene, when a young woman's narrow experience of life is thrown wide with the force of a raging fire. In the lyrical language o...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver 美国当代作家。美国国家图书奖终身成就奖得主,普利策小说奖得主、美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在美国肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版10部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成2 0多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《纵情夏日》《蝴蝶烧山》等。