Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged fr...(展开全部)

Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged fr...(展开全部)

莎拉•霍尔（Sarah Hall），1974年出生于英国坎布里亚郡，毕业于威尔士阿伯里斯特维斯大学获得文学学士学位，后于苏格兰圣安德鲁大学取得创意写作文学硕士学位。她的首部作品《霍斯水库》（Haweswater）便囊括2003年英联邦作家奖、贝蒂•特拉斯克最佳小说奖、Lakeland Book 年度图书奖，一跃成为现代英国最受瞩目的新锐作家之一。随后佳作不断，2004年第二部作品《电子米开朗基罗》（The Electric Michelangelo）入围布克奖决选名单、英联邦作家奖以及柑橘奖；2007年作品《卡呼伦军队》（Carhullan Army） 荣获约翰•卢威连•莱斯奖，并再度夺得Lakeland Book 年度图书奖。 《死亡画像》是她多年磨砺后的精品之作，无论叙事技巧、行文结构，还是思想深度，都堪称其最成熟的作品。莎拉•霍尔也凭借这部作品...(展开全部)

莎拉•霍尔（Sarah Hall），1974年出生于英国坎布里亚郡，毕业于威尔士阿伯里斯特维斯大学获得文学学士学位，后于苏格兰圣安德鲁大学取得创意写作文学硕士学位。她的首部作品《霍斯水库》（Haweswater）便囊括2003年英联邦作家奖、贝蒂•特拉斯克最佳小说奖、Lakeland Book 年度图书奖，一跃成为现代英国最受瞩目的新锐作家之一。随后佳作不断，2004年第二部作品《电子米开朗基罗》（The Electric Michelangelo）入围布克奖决选名单、英联邦作家奖以及柑橘奖；2007年作品《卡呼伦军队》（Carhullan Army） 荣获约翰•卢威连•莱斯奖，并再度夺得Lakeland Book 年度图书奖。 《死亡画像》是她多年磨砺后的精品之作，无论叙事技巧、行文结构，还是思想深度，都堪称其最成熟的作品。莎拉•霍尔也凭借这部作品...(展开全部)

"My Mother" is a unique "bildungsroman" of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?"Publishers Weekly" "My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man" comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which only the vaulting demands of disrupti...(展开全部)

"My Mother" is a unique "bildungsroman" of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?"Publishers Weekly" "My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man" comprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a highly personal vision of the flesh. They present a world of sensation in which only the vaulting demands of disrupti...(展开全部)

The lives of four individuals--a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator--intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power. "With How to Paint a Dead Man," Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" ("The Guardian"), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read . . . a...(展开全部)

Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues tha...(展开全部)

One of the most beloved novels of our time， Richard Adams s Watership Down takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields， forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns. It is a powerful saga of courage， leadership and survival; an epic tale of a hardy band of adventurers forced to flee the destruction of their fragile com...(展开全部)