罗恩·拉什（Ron Rash，1953— ）美国当代诗人、小说家，目前担任西卡罗来纳大学阿巴拉契亚文化研究帕里斯杰出教授，在该校英语系讲授诗歌和小说写作。 拉什出生于南卡罗来纳州，在北卡罗来纳州度过童年，毕业于加德纳-韦伯大学和克莱门森大学。一九九四年出版首部短篇小说集《新耶稣呱呱落地之夜》，此后创作不断，截至目前已出版七部长篇小说、六部短篇小说集和四本诗集，获得众多奖项和荣誉。 拉什的文学创作受到评论界高度评价，曾获得过通用电气青年作家奖、舍伍德·安德森奖、阿巴拉契亚年度图书奖，两次获得欧·亨利短篇小说奖，并凭借短篇小说集《化学》和长篇小说《萨琳娜》两度入围美国笔会/福克纳奖决选。

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the...(展开全部)

Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting presides like a black widow spider over its declining fortunes. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, but hope...(展开全部)

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the stude...(展开全部)

A student has gone missing in Edinburgh. She's not just any student, though, but the daughter of well-to-do and influential bankers. There's almost nothing to go on until DI John Rebus gets an unmistakable gut feeling that there's more to this than just another runaway spaced out on unaccustomed freedom. Two leads emerge: a carved wooden doll in a toy coffin, found in the stude...(展开全部)

With Empire Falls Richard Russo cements his reputation as one of America’s most compelling and compassionate storytellers. Miles Roby has been slinging burgers at the Empire Grill for 20 years, a job that cost him his college education and much of his self-respect. What keeps him there? It could be his bright, sensitive daughter Tick, who needs all his help surviving the...(展开全部)

本杰明•布莱克（Benjamin Black）是著名作家约翰•班维尔（John Banville）的笔名。班维尔1945年出生于爱尔兰，现居都柏林。班维尔是一位敏锐的评论家，更是一名出色的小说家。2005年，凭《海》获得当代英国小说界最重要的奖项——布克奖（Booker Prize）；随后，应《纽约时报》之邀，班维尔化身本杰明•布莱克创作“犯罪侦探小说”《堕落的信徒》等，成为当代备受瞩目的犯罪小说作家之一。

In the debut crime novel from a Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city's high Catholic society. Picador USA

Empire Falls, Maine: once a thriving hub of industry, this small town nestles in a bend of the vast and winding Knox River, and has always been the empire of the wealthy Whiting family. Now the last Mrs Whiting presides like a black widow spider over its declining fortunes. She harbours a grudge against her employee Miles Groby, who runs the Whiting-owned Empire Grill, but hope...(展开全部)

Barack Obama's Book of the Year 2020 The New York Times bestseller and Guardian Book of the Month 'This flawless masterpiece deserves to be a bestseller.' DAILY EXPRESS ‘Tough, tense and twisty - but tender, human and deeply affecting, too ... I don't have a sister, but when I finished the book I called my brother, just to hear his voice.’ LEE CHILD 'An outstanding crime novel....(展开全部)