For anyone who has ever wondered about the mysteries that lie beyond everyday experience, or doubted the reality of the afterlife, Angels in My Hair is a moving and deeply inspirational journey into the unseen world. For as long as she can remember, Lorna Byrne has seen angels. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the otherworldly beings who always accompanied h...(展开全部)

"Angels In My Hair" is the autobiography of a modern day mystic, an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. When she was a child, people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her. Instead Lorna was seeing angels and spirits. As Lorna tells the story of her life, the reader meets, as she did, the creatures from the spirit ...(展开全部)

In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real , almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians. In the title story, punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism.

大卫·福斯特·华莱士，美国著名天才作家。 凭借一本厚达上千页的小说《无尽的玩笑》，在欧美文坛留下了一段佳话。他也是美国近年来少有的被全世界承认的文学大师，与《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑一同被西方媒体称为“不至于让美国文学沦为笑柄的人”。 曾登上《时代周刊》封面的美国作家乔纳森·弗兰岑是华莱士的好朋友，两人一度被认为是“美国文坛双璧”，但跟好友相比，华莱士堪称“无冕之王”，天马行空的设定和情节，无与伦比的绝妙文笔，让他的小说有着致命的魅力。 即使在人才遍地的欧美文坛，华莱士也是个极为特殊的存在。他对哲学的痴迷，对繁复长句子的无尽追求，让他的作品从一诞生就划上了“神作”的符号，爱他的读者对他的作品如痴如醉。 大卫·福斯特·华莱士20岁出头就凭借长篇小说毕业作品《系统的笤帚》一夜成名，随后他一直创作稳定，一个名为《这是水》的励志演讲在全球热传，激励了无数在迷...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 From the author of THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM and INFINITE JEST, a collection of short stories which feature characters such as former president Lyndon Johnson, a late-night comedian, a ubiquitous game-show host, and a punk fashioned Young Republican woman.

Aaron Benham--professor, novelist, friend, mentor, family man, and sometime idealist--is supposed to be working on his new novel, The Hair of Harold Roux. But instead, tormented by the chaos of his present and the demons of his past, he is riding his motorcycle too fast, drinking too much, and thinking too often and deeply. Through Aaron's rich, if angst-ridden, mind we discove...(展开全部)

Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess? For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of question...(展开全部)

From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Cocaine Nights comes an acclaimed backlist title -- the unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control -- now reissued in new cover style. Within the concealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into maraudi...(展开全部)

尼克·霍恩比（Nick Hornby, 1957-），很小的时候就想成为写字的人，但从没料想到自己会成为一个畅销作家。霍恩比完成学业后留校教授英文，同时为报章媒体自由撰稿。纯属偶然，记录下他同时爱上足球和女人的自传体小说Fever Pitch在被多家出版社婉拒出版后，却一鸣惊人地登上1992年度英国图书畅销榜。此后尼克·霍恩比的每部小说几乎都在畅销榜和专家书评两方面双获丰收，其中就包括他最受欢迎的作品《失恋排行榜》、《非常男孩》，以及戏谑另一位英伦才子作家阿兰·德波顿的名作《拥抱逝水年华》的小说《如何是好》。他的作品大多都被气势磅礴成电影，但公认评价最好的还是小说本身。2005年的新作Along Way Down I出版，即登上英语文学各大排行榜前十名。

【美】乔治.R.R.马丁 《冰与火之歌》作者，多次获得雨果、星云、轨迹和史铎克奖，被时代杂志评选为2011年影响世界的一百人。