理查德·拉索（Richard Russo，1949— ），美国著名小说家，编剧，普利策奖得主。1949年，出生于普通的蓝领家庭。曾就读于亚利桑那大学，1979 年，获得博士学位。拉索创作过十余部长篇小说，大都以美国“锈带”蓝领阶层和大学学院生活为蓝本创作。小说《帝国瀑布 》获得2002 年普利策小说奖。 拉索最擅长描写美国锈带小镇生活，稀松平常生活在他笔下也有一种史诗般的气质。从容的节奏、精心设计的对话、敏锐的细节、引人入胜的情节刻画、变幻莫测的内心描写，都让看似简单的家庭之爱/之恨，展现出错综复杂的情感张力。在拉索的故事王国里，蓝领阶层既闪烁着马克·吐温式的光辉，又有着约翰·埃文的变幻莫测。他从美国小镇的日常和蓝领阶级的困顿中，写出曲折的同情和怜悯，饱含着势不可挡的人性光辉。拉索的作品被美国顶尖的媒体持续推荐长达近四十年，深受安妮·普鲁、斯蒂芬·金...(展开全部)

At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank has a dangerous philosophy that ...(展开全部)

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris ...(展开全部)

The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat. Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is im...(展开全部)

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris ...(展开全部)

The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat. Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is im...(展开全部)

Product Description Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. As Tala’s wedding day approaches, s...(展开全部)

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist-- and partly in...(展开全部)

The world's bestselling guide to negotiation. Getting to Yes has been in print for over thirty years, and in that time has helped millions of people secure win-win agreements both at work and in their private lives. Including principles such as: Don't bargain over positions Separate the people from the problem and Insist on objective criteria Getting to Yes simplifies the whole...(展开全部)

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