本·方登，美国作家，1958年生于美国北卡罗来纳州，现居得克萨斯州达拉斯。作品获得过诸多文学奖项，其中短篇小说集《与绝迹之鸟的短暂邂逅》获海明威奖，长篇小说《漫长的中场休息》获美国国家书评人奖，入选BBC本世纪必读12本小说。

本·方登，美国作家，1958年生于美国北卡罗来纳州，现居得克萨斯州达拉斯。作品获得过诸多文学奖项，其中短篇小说集《与绝迹之鸟的短暂邂逅》获海明威奖，长篇小说《漫长的中场休息》获美国国家书评人奖，入选BBC本世纪必读12本小说。

The well-meaning protagonists of "Brief Encounters with Che Guevara" are caught--to both disastrous and hilarious effect--in the maelstrom of political and social upheaval surrounding them. Ben Fountain's prize-winning debut speaks to the intimate connection between the foreign, the familiar, and the inescapably human.

"Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History", the highly-anticipated concise version of Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling survey text, provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. With an engaging narrative, strong thematic approach, visual appeal, and solid pedagogy, it offers enhanced flexibility and affordability witho...(展开全部)

杰里•本特利（Jerry Bentley），美国夏威夷大学历史学教授，《世界史》杂志主编，全球史研究与教育的重要代表。主要研究方向为现代早期欧洲的文化史以及世界历史上的多种文化交流。著有《人文主义者和〈圣经〉：文艺复兴时期的〈新约圣经〉研究》（1983）、《文艺复兴时期那不勒斯的政治与文化》（1987）、《古代世界交往史》（1993）等。 赫布•齐格勒（Herbert Ziegler），夏威夷大学历史学副教授，《世界史》杂志编辑。著有《纳粹德国的新贵》（1990）。 希瑟•斯特里兹（Heather E. Streets），华盛顿大学历史学副教授，著有《军事竞赛：军队、竞赛和英帝国文化中的男子气概，1857－1914年》（2004）。

An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.

An exuberantly acclaimed collection -- twenty-two stories that combine hilarity and an escalating disquiet as they expand our ideas of the pleasures fiction can afford.

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas of the pleasures that fiction can afford.

In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship wit...(展开全部)

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious, and benighted explore poignantly and hilarious...(展开全部)