When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster sp...(展开全部)

The story of a life. The story of the year. 'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miria...(展开全部)

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, wh...(展开全部)

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vision of American life caught the imagination of young people everywhere. He came of age during the Haight-Ashbury period and has been called "the last of the Beats." His early books became required reading for the hip generation, and on its publication Trout Fishing in America bec...(展开全部)

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

▼作者简介 理查德•布劳提根 Richard Gary Brautigan 美国诗人、小说家、后垮掉派代表作家。他的作品中大量充斥着戏仿、讽喻与黑色幽默，小说代表作为《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）与《在西瓜糖中》（1968），诗歌代表作为《搁大理石茶》（1959）《避孕药与春山矿难》（1968）。他最初以诗歌创作登上文坛，第一本诗集出版于1957年，其后曾参加过“垮掉派”的活动，其后凭借着《在美国钓鳟鱼》的出版名声大噪，嬉皮士一度奉他为偶像，将其视为“爱之夏”运动的代言人。1984年，布劳提根于加州家中自杀身亡。 ▼译者简介 ☆ 陈汐 1992年生于浙江建德，先后就读于复旦大学翻译系、香港中文大学翻译系，主编并出版有诗文集《在复旦写诗》。 ☆ 肖水 1980 年生于湖南郴州，先后就读于复旦大学法学院、中文系，出版诗集《失物认领》《中文课》《艾草：新绝句...(展开全部)

A novel which is both playful and serious, hilarious and melancholy. It takes a journey which starts at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in Washington Square, San Francisco, and wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways.

▼作者简介 理查德•布劳提根 Richard Gary Brautigan 美国诗人、小说家、后垮掉派代表作家。他的作品中大量充斥着戏仿、讽喻与黑色幽默，小说代表作为《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）与《在西瓜糖中》（1968），诗歌代表作为《搁大理石茶》（1959）《避孕药与春山矿难》（1968）。他最初以诗歌创作登上文坛，第一本诗集出版于1957年，其后曾参加过“垮掉派”的活动，其后凭借着《在美国钓鳟鱼》的出版名声大噪，嬉皮士一度奉他为偶像，将其视为“爱之夏”运动的代言人。1984年，布劳提根于加州家中自杀身亡。 ▼译者简介 ☆ 陈汐 1992年生于浙江建德，先后就读于复旦大学翻译系、香港中文大学翻译系，主编并出版有诗文集《在复旦写诗》。 ☆ 肖水 1980 年生于湖南郴州，先后就读于复旦大学法学院、中文系，出版诗集《失物认领》《中文课》《艾草：新绝句...(展开全部)