Tim Madden, an unsuccessful writer with a penchant for nicotine, alcohol and blondes with money, struggles towards consciousness twenty-four days and nights after his wide has left him. He has a bad case of alcohol amnesia, a fresh and throbbing tattoo and a car drenched in blood. Just to make his hangover complete, Provincetown's Chief of Police would like a quiet word...So be...(展开全部)

诺曼·梅勒 ☉美国著名作家，国际笔会美国分会主席，美国“全国文学艺术院”院士，“美国文学艺术研究院”院士。 ☉两获普利策奖的文坛鬼才和数届诺贝尔文学奖热门候选人。 ☉上过前线，当过导演，参加过纽约市长竞选，还结过六次婚，育有九个孩子，同时也是 “硬汉文学”、非虚构写作的践行者与新新闻主义写作的创始人之一。 ☉作为一个集小说家、政客、文化名人、随笔作家、记者、文学批评家、诗人、导演、编剧、演员、社会活动家、运动迷于一身的时代偶像，梅勒毕生将写作当成一项英雄般的事业。 ☉他不仅苛求自己与同时代的同行竞争，更把自己视为托尔斯泰和陀思妥耶夫斯基式的人物，因此被称作“美国最伟大的当代作家”。一位与海明威并驾齐驱的重量级作家。 1923年生于美国新泽西州； 1943年毕业于哈佛大学； 1944年至1946年在太平洋地区服役； 1948年写出了成名作《裸者与死者》...(展开全部)

A young man named Samuel dies in a car crash. Accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. Through conversations with friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait of Samuel emerges: the loving grandchild, the reluctant bureaucrat, the loyal friend, the contrived poser. The young man who would do anything for his gi...(展开全部)

Everyone in Miss May's class believes in dragons-except for Jack. When the other children join in the game of imagining a dragon at school, Jack refuses to play along. Is there anything that can convince him?

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World

High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and...(展开全部)

This wildly propulsive novel by the acclaimed author of A Wild Sheep Chase focuses on a man searching for a former lover who vanished mysteriously from a seedy hotel. But each new clue to Kiki's whereabouts leads him deeper into a labryrinth of physical violence and metaphysical dread. "A world-class writer."--Washington Post Book World