Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, S...(展开全部)

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, S...(展开全部)

In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between ...(展开全部)

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, S...(展开全部)

Miles life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident. He still rises each morning to take care of his young son and carries out his duties as deputy sheriff of New Bern， North Carolina， but its all in a numb and hopeless haze. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews， who is rebuilding her own life. Slowly， their newfound love starts to soothe the pain of the pa...(展开全部)

Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, S...(展开全部)

In the "brilliant novel" ( The New York Times ) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between ...(展开全部)

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a com...(展开全部)

This title is part of the fabulous new hardback library of 22 Vladimir Nabokov books, publishing over the coming year, with an elegant new jacket and text design. The state has been recently taken over and is being run by the tyrannical and philistine 'Average Man' party. Under the slogans of equality and happiness for all, it has done away with individualism and freedom of tho...(展开全部)

弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫，纳博科夫是二十世纪公认的杰出小说家和文体家。 一八九九年四月二十三日，纳博科夫出生于圣彼得堡。布尔什维克革命期间，纳博科夫随全家于一九一九年流亡德国。他在剑桥三一学院攻读法国和俄罗斯文学后，开始了在柏林和巴黎十八年的文学生涯。 九四〇年，纳博科夫移居美国，在韦尔斯利、斯坦福、康奈尔和哈佛大学执教，以小说家、诗人、批评家和翻译家身份享誉文坛，著有《庶出的标志》《洛丽塔》《普宁》和《微暗的火》等长篇小说。 一九五五年九月十五日，纳博科夫的代表作品《洛丽塔》由巴黎奥林匹亚出版社出版并引发争议。 一九六一年，纳博科夫迁居瑞士蒙特勒；一九七七年七月二日病逝。