Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work.          A novel ab...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·奥茨（Joyce Carol Oates,1938— ）　1938年6月16日出生在纽约州洛克波特市附近伊利县一个工人家庭，从小寄养在务农的外祖父家，在只有一间教室的学校里上学，过着“非常悲惨的日子”。直到高中时，进布法罗市郊一中学学习，才受到较为正规的教育，并开始爱好文学。1956年，奥茨考入纽约州的锡拉丘兹大学，主修英国文学。期间开始学习写作，曾获得女大学生小说创作比赛一等奖。1960年，她以第一名的成绩毕业于锡拉丘兹大学，一年后，获得威斯康星大学文学硕士学位。1962年入底特律大学任教并进行创作。1967年移居加拿大，1978年回国，当选为美国文学艺术院院士，此后即在普林斯顿大学任驻校作家、客座教授，讲授文学创作。奥茨是一位多产作家，自1963年第一部短篇小说集《北门畔》问世以来，迄今已出版长篇小说28部，短篇小说集17部，诗...(展开全部)

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss‑‑who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married‑‑and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn’t take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She bec...(展开全部)

贺循失明后，执意回老家旧宅生活。　　春光明媚，爬藤月季探出别墅大门，贺循深居简出，短短几个月，赶走了三个保姆。　　最后招进来的那个女保姆，工作不负责，爱占小便宜，满嘴谎话，举止轻浮。　　她说自己年龄三十八，小眼歪嘴满脸雀斑，丧夫守寡，孤苦无依，求他不要解雇她。　 贺循心里越觉越蹊跷。　　后来他试图拼凑出这个女人的形象——二十八岁，单亲妈妈，染头发穿舞裙，坑蒙拐骗的小太妹长大了。 # 美丽的梦和美丽的诗一样/都是可遇而不可求的/常常在最没能料到的时刻里出现 我喜欢那样的梦/在梦里 一切都可以重新开始/一切都可以慢慢解释/心里甚至还能感觉到所有被浪费的时光 竟然都能重回时的狂喜和感激 # （席慕蓉）阅读指南：1.女主有娃（孩子不是男主的）2.雷点很多，有任意雷点者慎入3.不定时更新

简介：乖乖女惹上小混混 所以他们直接又能擦出怎样的火花呢？

简介：乖乖女惹上小混混 所以他们直接又能擦出怎样的火花呢？

A revelatory account that finally unveils the shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler’s son who became the Red Tsar—the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil. What makes a Stalin? What formed this merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industriali...(展开全部)

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar. What forms such a merciless psychopath and consummate politician? Was he illeg...(展开全部)

Based on ten years' astonishing new research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic, dangerous boy became a student priest, romantic poet, gangster mastermind, prolific lover, murderous revolutionary, and the merciless politician who shaped the Soviet Empire in his own brutal image: How Stalin became Stalin.