麦克班恩一九二六年十月十五日出生在纽约市，他的父亲是一位邮局的员工。他的本名是萨尔瓦托雷•隆比诺（Salvatore Lombino）。隆比诺自第二次世界大战服役海军期间开始写作，之后以极优异的成绩毕业于亨特学院（Hunter College），并在那里担任教职。 在五十年的作家生涯里，他以亨特或麦克班恩之名写了许多畅销的小说、短篇作品、剧本和电影脚本（包括担任希区科克的名作《鸟》的编剧）。一九五六年，他以《恨警察的人》（Cop Hater）一书开始了八十七分局系列小说，将警察小说带入了一个全新、更加写实的新领域。故事背景是一个虚构的城市艾索拉（Isola，其蓝本为麦克班恩熟悉的纽约市），而本书亦为日后的大都市警察小说定下了一个模式：充满罪恶的大都市、多重故事发展、曲折的剧情、激烈的动作场景、贫民区的暴力描写、有计划的团队合作、写实的法医程序、以及外...(展开全部)

In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfri...(展开全部)

In these ten stories， Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration， cleanly chiseled prose， and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace."Beautifully imagined and crafted stories， by turns heartrending a...(展开全部)

理查德•福特，美国当代重要作家。1944年出生于密西西比州杰克逊市。他在密歇根州立大学毕业后曾担任初中教师，后在华盛顿大学法学院读了一学期，即转学加州大学厄湾校区攻读创意写作硕士学位。福特有轻微的阅读障碍，但痴迷文学，创作了《体育记者》、《独立日》等五部长篇小说，《石泉城》、《多重罪恶》等三部短篇小说集。 理查德•福特曾为“美国文库”主编韦尔蒂作品选，为《格兰塔》杂志主编多部短篇小说选，在多所大学教授写作课程。 福特是美国艺术与文学院院士。曾获得普利策小说奖、美国笔会福克纳小说奖和马拉默德短篇小说奖、Rea短篇小说奖和法国文学艺术奖。作品已被翻译成近三十种文字。

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

Penguin celebrates the centennial of Graham Greene's birth with commemorativeeditions of his greatest works.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEE A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold.Greene’s gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the ‘dangerous edge of th...(展开全部)

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other. In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth navigates a new house, a new husband...(展开全部)