莎拉•霍尔（Sarah Hall），1974年出生于英国坎布里亚郡，毕业于威尔士阿伯里斯特维斯大学获得文学学士学位，后于苏格兰圣安德鲁大学取得创意写作文学硕士学位。她的首部作品《霍斯水库》（Haweswater）便囊括2003年英联邦作家奖、贝蒂•特拉斯克最佳小说奖、Lakeland Book 年度图书奖，一跃成为现代英国最受瞩目的新锐作家之一。随后佳作不断，2004年第二部作品《电子米开朗基罗》（The Electric Michelangelo）入围布克奖决选名单、英联邦作家奖以及柑橘奖；2007年作品《卡呼伦军队》（Carhullan Army） 荣获约翰•卢威连•莱斯奖，并再度夺得Lakeland Book 年度图书奖。 《死亡画像》是她多年磨砺后的精品之作，无论叙事技巧、行文结构，还是思想深度，都堪称其最成熟的作品。莎拉•霍尔也凭借这部作品...(展开全部)

莎拉•霍尔（Sarah Hall），1974年出生于英国坎布里亚郡，毕业于威尔士阿伯里斯特维斯大学获得文学学士学位，后于苏格兰圣安德鲁大学取得创意写作文学硕士学位。她的首部作品《霍斯水库》（Haweswater）便囊括2003年英联邦作家奖、贝蒂•特拉斯克最佳小说奖、Lakeland Book 年度图书奖，一跃成为现代英国最受瞩目的新锐作家之一。随后佳作不断，2004年第二部作品《电子米开朗基罗》（The Electric Michelangelo）入围布克奖决选名单、英联邦作家奖以及柑橘奖；2007年作品《卡呼伦军队》（Carhullan Army） 荣获约翰•卢威连•莱斯奖，并再度夺得Lakeland Book 年度图书奖。 《死亡画像》是她多年磨砺后的精品之作，无论叙事技巧、行文结构，还是思想深度，都堪称其最成熟的作品。莎拉•霍尔也凭借这部作品...(展开全部)

The lives of four individuals--a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator--intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power. "With How to Paint a Dead Man," Sarah Hall, "one of the most significant and exciting of Britain's young novelists" ("The Guardian"), delivers "a maddeningly enticing read . . . a...(展开全部)

Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolour shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light...(展开全部)

Award-winning artist Nita Engle's breakthrough approach to watercolour shows readers how to combine spontaneity and control to produce glowing, realistic paintings. Her method begins with action-filled exercises that demonstrate how to play with paint, following no rules. Subsequent step-by-step projects add planning to the mix, demonstrating how to turn loose washes into light...(展开全部)

An award-winning fantasy artist and the creator of Dinotopia, James Gurney instructs and inspires in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. Renowned for his uncanny ability to incorporate amazing detail and imagination into stunningly realistic fantasy settings, James Gurney teaches budding artists and fans of fantasy art step-by-step the techniques that won him ...(展开全部)

An award-winning fantasy artist and the creator of Dinotopia, James Gurney instructs and inspires in Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist. Renowned for his uncanny ability to incorporate amazing detail and imagination into stunningly realistic fantasy settings, James Gurney teaches budding artists and fans of fantasy art step-by-step the techniques that won him ...(展开全部)

In one of her strongest works of fiction yet, Nicole Krauss plunges fearlessly into the struggle to understand what it is to be a man and what it is to be a woman, and the arising tensions that have existed from the very beginning of time. Set in our contemporary moment, and moving across the globe from Switzerland, Japan, and New York City to Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, and South A...(展开全部)