How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In Hooked, Rita Felski challenges the ethos of critical aloofness that is a part of modern intellec...(展开全部)

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In Hooked, Rita Felski challenges the ethos of critical aloofness that is a part of modern intellec...(展开全部)

ある冬の寒い日、病弱の母と二人暮らしの猪瀬東の家に、一人の男が訪ねてくる。 昔の猪瀬家の使用人で今は金貸しをしているという松岡末治は、困窮する母と東に援助を申し出る。 最初は不信感を抱く東だったが、松岡はかつての恩を返したいだけだと告げる。 そんな松岡に徐々に惹かれるようになる東。 しかし、松岡はいつまで経っても一線を画す態度で…? 生まれも育ちも異なる二人が共に巡る春夏秋冬

Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind -- plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars -- plus gorgeous, partially clad would -be starlets everywhere you look -- seems ideal for an enterprising...(展开全部)

Loan shark Chili Palmer didn't say anything when Ray Bones stole his leather jacket from Vesuvio's in Miami. He just went to Ray's house, broke his nose, took the jacket, and left. Twelve years later, on account of his boss getting whacked, Chili finds himself working for Bones and ordered to collect on a bad debt from Leo Devoe, a guy who died in a plane crash. But it turns ou...(展开全部)

<p>In a novel filled with his signatures--nerve-shattering suspense, crackling dialogue, scathing wit--Elmore Leonard shows once again why he sets the standard against which all other crime novels are measured.??In <em>Get Shorty</em>, he takes a mobster to Hollywood, where the women are gorgeous, the men are corrupt, and making it big isn't all that different from making your ...(展开全部)

以生命之神歐西里斯為首，九柱神各司其職，守護埃及。 然而在戰爭之神賽特突然殺了兄長歐西里斯，並篡奪其王位後， 和平的埃及，就此陷入賽特殘暴的血腥統治。 數百年後，歐西里斯的妻子，魔法之神伊西斯攜子前來復仇， 眾神趁此機會進行審判， 希望能藉由王權正統繼承者荷魯斯之手，一舉推翻賽特。 可未料，以此為始，賽特與荷魯斯這對叔姪的關係， 便如沙漠的詭譎多變般，走向了炙熱而不可預測的方向──

N.K.杰米辛 纽约市布鲁克林人，拥有心理学和教育学学位，作品主题广泛，包括文化冲突与压迫等。她的处女作是2010年的短篇小说《非零概率》，入围雨果奖与星云奖；同年出版第一部长篇小说《十方诸国》，获得雨果奖、世界科幻奖提名，并荣获轨迹奖最佳长篇小说处女作奖。2016年凭借《第五季》成为首位获得雨果奖的黑人女作家，2017年的《方尖碑之门》再次获得雨果奖，使她成为雨果奖史上第二位蝉联最佳长篇小说奖的科幻作家。