Winner of the 2018 Prix Goncourt, this poignant coming-of-age tale captures the distinct feeling of summer in a region left behind by global progress. August 1992. One afternoon during a heatwave in a desolate valley somewhere in eastern France, with its dormant blast furnaces and its lake, fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to explore the famous n...(展开全部)

♥作者简介 乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨，出生于1938年，美国当代作家，多届诺贝尔文学奖热门人选。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门畔》以来，迄今已出版一百余部作品，包括长篇小说、短篇小说集、诗集、剧本和文学评论等。代表作有《人间乐园》（1967）、《他们》（1969）、《奇境》（1971）、《黑水》（1992）、《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》（1996）、《大瀑布》（2004）等。其中，《他们》荣获美国国家图书奖，《黑水》曾被提名普利策奖。 ♥译者简介 杨柳川，成都大学教师，副教授。至今已发表、出版文学译作百万余字，包括四部长篇、数十篇中短篇和系列绘本，作品主要见于《译林》《英语世界》等杂志。

♥作者简介 乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨，出生于1938年，美国当代作家，多届诺贝尔文学奖热门人选。自1963年出版首部短篇小说集《北门畔》以来，迄今已出版一百余部作品，包括长篇小说、短篇小说集、诗集、剧本和文学评论等。代表作有《人间乐园》（1967）、《他们》（1969）、《奇境》（1971）、《黑水》（1992）、《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》（1996）、《大瀑布》（2004）等。其中，《他们》荣获美国国家图书奖，《黑水》曾被提名普利策奖。 ♥译者简介 杨柳川，成都大学教师，副教授。至今已发表、出版文学译作百万余字，包括四部长篇、数十篇中短篇和系列绘本，作品主要见于《译林》《英语世界》等杂志。

Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to follow, but is run over by the kidnapper's van, mangling her body nearly beyond repair. The kidnapper, a part-time Preacher nam...(展开全部)

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)

1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

安东尼奥·帕迪拉（Antonio Padilla） 诺丁汉大学物理学教授，曾在牛津大学和巴塞罗那大学担任研究职位。他在学术期刊上发表了70多篇学术论文，并于2016年因在宇宙常数问题上的研究获得了布查尔特宇宙学奖。他曾获得英国皇家学会的大学研究奖学金，他的研究目前得到了利华休姆信托基金和科学技术设施委员会的支持。在学术界之外，他最出名的是作为两个成功的YouTube频道——“六十符号”（Sixty Symbols）和“数字狂人”（Numberphile）的定期主持人，他最受欢迎的视频已被观看超过900万次。