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"Beauty and the Beast" begins with a question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual's beauty with...(展开全部)

“Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what’s going on as an ethnographer does—how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn...(展开全部)

作者： 加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊·巴尔博·德维尔纳夫（1695—1755）出生于法国巴黎。她的作品受到同时代作家的影响，特别是《灰姑娘》的作者夏尔·佩罗和首位提出“fairy tales”（神话故事）之说的奥诺伊公爵夫人。加布丽埃勒 - 苏珊一生出版了多部小说，而她最广为人知的身份是《美女与野兽》的原作者。 绘者： 米娜利马（MinaLima）是一家一流的平面设计工作室，它的创始人是米拉波拉·米娜（Miraphora Mina）和爱德华多·利马（Eduardo Lima）。他们曾为《哈利·波特》系列电影工作了十年，为该系列电影打造了一种独特的视觉图像风格。在伦敦设立工作室以后，他们继续用视觉艺术语言来讲故事，设计的领域包括书籍装帧、包装设计以及为电影创作图形道具。他们曾参与的电影有《理发师陶德》（2007 年）、《金色罗盘》（2007 年）、《模仿游戏》...(展开全部)

An extraordinary story of war and friendship from one of America's most revered authors of the 20th Century. Two teenagers form an unlikely friendship in pre-War Philadelphia. Al is obsessed with lifting weights, looking good and chasing girls. Birdy is obsessed with flight. Birdy's passion becomes all-encompassing. Birdy wants to fly. A few years later these young men find the...(展开全部)

From the acclaimed 1978 novel by William Wharton, BIRDY tells the story of a man undone by the horrors of World War II and the friend who tries to guide him back to earth. This stage adaptation, originally produced on the West End in London, is by MacArthur genius award winner Naomi Wallace.

An inventive, hypnotic novel about frienship and family, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." Wharton crafts an unforgettable tale--one that suggests another notion of sanity in a world that is manifestly insane.

威廉·沃顿（1926—2008），美国著名小说家，被媒体誉为“海明威后的海明威”。在美国权威媒体的计票评选中，威廉·沃顿超越《北回归线》的作者亨利·米勒、《断背山》的作者安妮·普鲁克斯和侦探小说大师雷蒙德·钱德勒等多位著名作家，登上20世纪美国15位大器晚成作家排行榜第1名。 华顿出生在一个贫穷、老实的天主教家庭，自小学习成绩优异的他为了贴补家用，放弃了上大学的机会选择入伍，二战末期在著名的“突出部之役”中负伤回国。之后身体虽然康复，但战争记忆却摧毁了他的心理，大半生的时间里都需要心理辅导和依赖精神类药物。1978年，五十多岁的他寄给出版社一部名叫《鸟人》的小说手稿，手稿立即被编辑看中，出版后即刻登顶《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，并进入了“普利策文学奖”的最终名单，还在1979年获得了象征着美国文学最高荣誉的“美国国家图书奖”最佳处女作奖，风光一时无两。...(展开全部)