The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

杰伊·麦金纳尼（Jay McInerney，1955— ） 美国作家。1955年生于康涅狄格州哈特福德，曾任职于美国《纽约客》杂志。 1981年师从雷蒙德·卡佛和托拜厄斯·沃尔夫学习写作。1982年在《巴黎评论》上发表第一部短篇小说《现在清晨六点，你知道你在哪吗？》，从此走上作家道路。1984年，他的短篇小说集《如此灿烂，这个城市》出版，创造了口碑奇迹，畅销至今。这部书被誉为“1980年代的《麦田里的守望者》”。此后，他又陆续出版了《赎金》《我生活的故事》《最后一个野蛮人》《他们是怎样玩完的》等著作，均大获好评，奠定了他当代美国文坛优秀作家的地位。他最新的作品是2016年出版的《闪亮而珍贵的日子》。

The city is a big and busy place for a little puppy—there are tall buildings, honking cars, and all kinds of new friends to make!

The city is a big and busy place for a little puppy—there are tall buildings, honking cars, and all kinds of new friends to make!

Eduardo Galeano is determined to forget that history is usually written by the victors. He favours the voiceless and the vulnerable. "Mirrors" is a narrative history of the world that condenses into its fragments radically altered visions of the landmark events on this earth, and of the landmark individuals who pass history from hand to hand in the official guidebooks. Yes, it ...(展开全部)

This text presents a narrative history of the world that condenses into its fragments radically altered visions of the landmark events on this earth, and of the landmark individuals who pass history from hand to hand in the official guidebooks.

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World