Doomed to--or blessed with--eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by ...(展开全部)

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed b...(展开全部)

Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed b...(展开全部)

When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his "green burial" at Bernd Heinrich's hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal world deal with the flip side of the life cycle? And what are the lessons, ecological to spiritual, raised by a close look at h...(展开全部)

From one of the finest naturalist/writers of our time, a fascinating investigation of Nature’s inspiring death-to-life cycle When a good friend with a severe illness wrote, asking if he might have his “green burial” at Bernd Heinrich’s hunting camp in Maine, it inspired the acclaimed biologist to investigate a subject that had long fascinated him. How exactly does the animal wo...(展开全部)

28歳処女と52歳大学教授の恋。 貴和子は、ある日同じマンションの隣室ベランダでタバコを吸う男に出会う。 52歳、気だるげな大学教授、縫原。 バレエダンサーの道を諦め、バレエ講師として日々を過ごす貴和子に、彼は誠実な言葉で語りかける。 今まで恋愛を避けてきた貴和子の心に火がともり…

28歳処女と52歳大学教授の恋。 貴和子は、ある日同じマンションの隣室ベランダでタバコを吸う男に出会う。 52歳、気だるげな大学教授、縫原。 バレエダンサーの道を諦め、バレエ講師として日々を過ごす貴和子に、彼は誠実な言葉で語りかける。 今まで恋愛を避けてきた貴和子の心に火がともり…

First published in 1971, Love is Angela Carter’s fifth novel. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections.

安吉拉·卡特（Angela Carter, 1940—1992）出生于英国伊斯特本（Eastbourne），是英国最具独创性的作家之一，书写风格混杂魔幻写实、歌特式以及女性主义。卡特著有八部小说：《魔幻玩具铺》（获约翰·勒维林·里斯奖）、《数种知觉》（获萨默塞特·毛姆奖）、《英雄与恶徒》、《爱》、《霍夫曼博士的地狱欲望机器》、《新夏娃的激情》、《马戏团之夜》，以及《明智的孩子》。三本短篇小说集：《染血之室》、《烟火：九个世俗故事》，以及《圣人与陌生人》等等。卡特的作品也深受艺术界喜爱：短篇小说《与狼为伴》和《魔幻玩具铺》曾拍成电影，《马戏团之夜》和《明智的孩子》改编成舞台剧于伦敦上演，2006年更被喻为安吉拉·卡特之年，在英伦掀起一阵卡特热潮。

Annabel, an artist adrift in the political and sexual crosscurrents of the 1960s and the whirling undertow of her own mind, falls into marriage with the blithely adulterous Lee. Before long, her relationship leads to obsession, betrayal, deceit, voyeurism, violence, and suicide.