Just about everything in Endora, Iowa (pop. 1,091 and dwindling) is eating Gilbert Grape, a twenty-four-year-old grocery clerk who dreams only of leaving. His enormous mother, once the town sweetheart, has been eating nonstop ever since her husband's suicide, and the floor beneath her TV chair is threatening to cave in. Gilbert's long-suffering older sister, Amy, still mourns t...(展开全部)

彼得·赫奇斯Peter Hedges 1962年出生于美国爱荷华州，小说家、剧作家、编剧、导演、制作人。 1991年，出版第一部小说《不一样的天空》，随即成为备受欢迎的畅销书。1993年，担纲撰写《不一样的天空》同名电影剧本，影片由正值青春年华的两大未来影帝约翰尼·德普和莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥魅力主演，电影广受好评。 1998年，出版第二部小说《爱荷华州的海洋》。 2010年，出版小说《高地》。 译者 何雨珈 家中有猫，自由译者，撰稿人。翻译的作品多达40多种，如《鱼翅与花椒》《寻味东西》《当呼吸化为空气》《再会，老北京》《东北游记》《东京绮梦》《纸牌屋》等。

Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs. The 1990s were tough times for the soda industry. In the United States, obesity rates were exploding. Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the co...(展开全部)