When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to contro...(展开全部)

Kingdom Come is a four-issue comic book mini-series published in 1996 by DC Comics under their Elseworlds imprint. It was written by Alex Ross and Mark Waid and painted in gouache by Ross, who also developed the concept from an original idea. This Elseworlds story is set in a future that deals with a growing conflict between "traditional" superheroes, such as Superman, Wonder W...(展开全部)

马克•怀德（Mark Waid） 美国漫画编剧、编辑。曾担任DC多种漫画的编辑，并为DC和漫威创作多部漫画。编剧作品包括《闪电侠》《美国队长》《正义联盟》等多部漫画，曾获艾斯纳奖和哈维奖。 亚历克斯•罗斯（Alex Ross） 美国知名漫画家、插画家。擅长超级写实主义风格，以《终结者：燃烧地球》出道，先后创作《惊奇》《天国降临》《正义》等漫画，并从事封面和海报绘画。 江业华 致力于美国漫画翻译与研究多年，著有《今夜拯救世界》《超人会不会飞》《生为传奇》等美漫专著，翻译《蝙蝠侠：第一年》《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士归来》等。

马克•怀德（Mark Waid） 美国漫画编剧、编辑。曾担任DC多种漫画的编辑，并为DC和漫威创作多部漫画。编剧作品包括《闪电侠》《美国队长》《正义联盟》等多部漫画，曾获艾斯纳奖和哈维奖。 亚历克斯•罗斯（Alex Ross） 美国知名漫画家、插画家。擅长超级写实主义风格，以《终结者：燃烧地球》出道，先后创作《惊奇》《天国降临》《正义》等漫画，并从事封面和海报绘画。 江业华 致力于美国漫画翻译与研究多年，著有《今夜拯救世界》《超人会不会飞》《生为传奇》等美漫专著，翻译《蝙蝠侠：第一年》《蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士归来》等。

In November of 1991 Robert Frank went to Beirut on a commission to photograph the city's devastated downtown in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). Much of the work he did there, together with that of five other photographers with whom he shared the assignment, was put together in Beirut City Centre by Editions du Cypres in 1992. Alongside that commissioned wor...(展开全部)

Denis Johnson's "Train Dreams" is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions. Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century--an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainer struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shock...(展开全部)

Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier struggles to make sense of this strange new world. As his story unfolds, we witness both his shocking personal defeats and the radical changes that transform America in his lifetime. Suffused with the...(展开全部)

A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures...(展开全部)

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