Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of s...(展开全部)

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

托马斯•品钦（Thomas Pynchon） 当代文学巨擘，被哈罗德•布鲁姆称作美国当代最重要的四位作家之一，屡次入列诺贝尔文学奖候选名单。 品钦对个人生活讳莫如深，成名后深居简出，早年的照片和档案也离奇消失，引发了媒体、学界和书迷对其生活的狂热考证。作品包含着丰富的意旨、风格和主题，通过迷宫式的叙事和对自然科学、前沿科技、高等数学、现代物理等领域的概念借用，描绘了美国光怪陆离的社会全景，道出了现代社会中人类的艰难处境，展现了鬼才品钦诡谲的视角，以及对黑色幽默、犯罪悬疑、侦探等元素的娴熟运用。 其代表作《万有引力之虹》被评论家称为借助神力完成的大百科全书式作品，曾获美国全国图书奖，但拒绝领奖。亦著有《拍卖第四十九批》《V》《葡萄园》等重要作品。 蒋怡 毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的...(展开全部)

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

肯·福莱特（Ken Follett，1949－） 现象级畅销小说大师，爱伦坡终身大师奖得主。 20部小说被译成33国语言，累计总销量超1.5亿册。 在欧美出版界，肯·福莱特这个名字就是畅销的保证。 1978年，出版了处女作《风暴岛》，并于次年获得爱伦坡奖，声名鹊起，专职写作。2010年，荣登全球作家富豪榜上第5名。2013年，获得爱伦坡终身大师奖。 他的小说出版前，都会请历史学家审读书稿，绝不容许出现任何史实错误。 他说：“很多作家只写能取悦他们自己的东西，并模模糊糊地希望这也能取悦别人。但我每写一页都在清醒地思考：读者会怎么想？读者觉得这真的会发生吗？读者关心这些吗？读者想要知道接下来会发生什么吗？我敬佩那些用文字和新奇结构进行文学实验的作家，但我从不这么玩。” 作者官方网站：www.ken-follett.com

肯·福莱特（Ken Follett，1949－） 现象级畅销小说大师，爱伦坡终身大师奖得主。 20部小说被译成33国语言，累计总销量超1.5亿册。 在欧美出版界，肯·福莱特这个名字就是畅销的保证。 1978年，出版了处女作《风暴岛》，并于次年获得爱伦坡奖，声名鹊起，专职写作。2010年，荣登全球作家富豪榜上第5名。2013年，获得爱伦坡终身大师奖。 他的小说出版前，都会请历史学家审读书稿，绝不容许出现任何史实错误。 他说：“很多作家只写能取悦他们自己的东西，并模模糊糊地希望这也能取悦别人。但我每写一页都在清醒地思考：读者会怎么想？读者觉得这真的会发生吗？读者关心这些吗？读者想要知道接下来会发生什么吗？我敬佩那些用文字和新奇结构进行文学实验的作家，但我从不这么玩。” 作者官方网站：www.ken-follett.com

An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the profession’s most eminent figures.

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of his spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters - his fiancée Isabel whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and Elliott Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob.Maugham himself wanders in and out of the story, to observe his...(展开全部)