In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes—until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.

在线阅读本书 With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl. Within the span of a few hours, the irresistible, hoydenish Frankie passionately plays out her fantasies at her elder brother's wedding. Through a perilous skylight we look into the mind of a...(展开全部)

Composing Music for Games is a guidebook for launching and maintaining a successful career as a video game composer. It offers a pragmatic approach to learning, intensified through challenging project assignments and simulations. Author Chance Thomas begins with the foundation of scoring principles applicable to all media, and then progresses serially through core methodologies...(展开全部)

Most previous books about Dmitri Shostakovich have focused on either his symphonies and operas, or his relationship to the regime under which he lived, or both, since these large-scale works were the ones that attracted the interest and sometimes the condemnation of the Soviet authorities. "Music for Silenced Voices" looks at Shostakovich through the back door, as it were, of h...(展开全部)

The most engaging and musical Sight-Singing text on the market. Music for Sight Singing is structured around organized melodiesdrawn from the literature of composed music and a wide range of the world's folk music. Real music exercises allow readers to practice sight singing and develop their "mind's ear" - the ability to imagine how music sounds without first playing it on an ...(展开全部)

斯蒂德夫妇 菲利普·C.斯蒂德与埃琳·E.斯蒂德被美国《ABC新闻》称为“儿童文学界最著名的创作组合之一”。2011年，斯蒂德夫妇首次合作的《阿莫的生病日》荣获图画书领域最高荣誉——凯迪克金奖。此后，夫妇二人又一起合作了多部作品，包括《大熊有个故事要说》《伦尼和露西》，以及与美国著名作家马克·吐温跨时空合作的《麦淇淋王子失窃案》。《为月亮先生演奏》是他们最新合作的故事，在创作期间，夫妇俩迎来了他们的爱情结晶，这位家庭新成员帮助他们一起完成了这部梦幻之作。

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki “Atime being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first pl...(展开全部)

露丝·尾关 Ruth Ozeki：当代美国文坛备受瞩目的女作家之一。 处女作《食肉之年》获得《纽约时报》年度好书、桐山环太平洋图书奖、巴尼斯和诺布尔美国图书奖。第二部小说《大千世界》被翻译为11种语言。《不存在的女孩》是她最受赞誉的一部作品，入围布克奖、都柏林文学奖等， 同时收获了欧美数十个重量级文学奖的肯定，并在世界30余个国家出版。