It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except, of course, Holly Golightly. Pursued by Mafia gangsters and playboy millionaires, Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair and turned-up nose, a heart-breaker, a perplexer, a traveller, a tease. She is irrepressibly 'top banana in the shock department'...(展开全部)

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naïveté continue to charm. This volume also includes three of Capote's best-known stories, “House of Flowers,” “A ...(展开全部)

杜鲁门·卡波特，美国著名作家，两次获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖。1924年生于新奥尔良，17岁受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。1948年处女作《别的声音，别的房间》获得世界性的成功。1958年，奠定其大师地位的杰作《蒂凡尼的早餐》出版。1966年，完成了巅峰之作《冷血》。1984年8月25日晚，敏感、复杂和饱受争议的卡波特，因用药过度，猝死于友人家中，终年59岁。

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women a...(展开全部)

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women a...(展开全部)

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction as truth. The result is murderously funny satire as Vonnegut looks at war, sex, racism, success, politics, and pollution in America and reminds us how to see the truth.

哈罗德•布鲁姆，当代美国极富影响的文学理论家、批评家。1930年生于纽约，曾执教于耶鲁大学、纽约大学和哈佛大学等知名高校。主要研究领域包括诗歌批评、理论批评和宗教批评，代表作有《西方正典》（1994）、《如何读，为什么读》（2000）、《影响的剖析》（2001）等。被誉为“西方传统中最有天赋、最具原创性和最富煽动性的一位文学批评家”。

南非天才编剧家，小说家，全球出版商和好莱坞电影公司眼中“还未长成的J•K罗琳”。 《从天而落》是她的首部小说，还未出版便以其奇特性与震撼力深深打动了全球出版界，版权售至全球21个国家，电影版权被好莱坞6大影视公司热抢。 本书故事的叙述采取仿纪实手法，讲述不可思议的坠机事件以及事件发生后更加不可思议的后续，与现实生活中地球上发生的空难事件有着惊人的相似，读来让人特别感同身受。紧张的情节和对人性深刻的拷问可谓是撼人心魄，对人类各种情感的刻画深沉细腻。 美国恐怖小说天王级人物斯蒂芬•金的盛赞，称她为“迈克尔•克莱顿和秀莉•杰克逊的完美融合”。而著名的科克斯书评评论《从天而落》“并非浅薄的毛骨悚然，而是全球政治、宗教、人性、社会结构的深思。 如今本书的续集正在写作中。