Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of lo...(展开全部)

Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a mo...(展开全部)

托妮•莫里森，美国著名作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州，曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑，后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等，曾获普利策小说奖、美国书评家协会奖、美国国家图书奖等多项大奖。1993年获诺贝尔文学奖。

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Child of God" is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts...(展开全部)

With the satirical eye of his science fiction author alter ego Kilgore Trout, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five delivers a classic of modern American literature. Eliot Rosewater, President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation and volunteer firefighter, is tortured by an inheritance he doesn’t feel that he deserves. After (unfortunately) developing a social conscience, he...(展开全部)

A rich man attempts a noble experiment with human nature. The result is an etched-in-acid portrayal of universal greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh.

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)