The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

霍华德．布登（Howard Buten），1950年出生于美国底特律。他除了作家身分，也是临床心理学家，以研究自闭儿的专业闻名美国和欧洲。此外，他也以扮演小丑，为自闭儿进行治疗，并以“小丑布弗”为名，在欧、美、日等世界各地进行表演。 此书是霍华德．布登最著名的小说，全书以男孩的口吻，描写出一个不被成人理解，始终遭到扭曲的孩童心灵世界。故事相当感人，首次在美国以《小波》为名出版时，虽获得了不错的回响，也创下了不错的销售成绩，但都还不如后来在法国以《五岁时，我杀了自己》为名问世的版本。 霍华德．布登以此书在法国一炮而红，并以惊人的销量稳坐法国书市，出版至今30多年来，这部小说因为内容太令人震撼，持续受到讨论，它所累积的读者群已涵盖各个年龄层。在法国读者眼中，它与经典文学名著《小王子》具有同等地位，并推崇它为法国版的《麦田守望者》。 这部作品不止被搬上大银...(展开全部)

Burton Rembrandt has the sort of perspective on life that is almost impossible for adults to understand: the perspective of an 8-year-old. And to Burt, his parents and teachers seem to be speaking a language he cannot understand. This is Burt's story as written in pencil on the walls of Quiet Room in the Children's Trust Residence Center, where he lands after expressing his ard...(展开全部)

霍华德．布登（Howard Buten），1950年出生于美国底特律。他除了作家身分，也是临床心理学家，以研究自闭儿的专业闻名美国和欧洲。此外，他也以扮演小丑，为自闭儿进行治疗，并以“小丑布弗”为名，在欧、美、日等世界各地进行表演。 此书是霍华德．布登最著名的小说，全书以男孩的口吻，描写出一个不被成人理解，始终遭到扭曲的孩童心灵世界。故事相当感人，首次在美国以《小波》为名出版时，虽获得了不错的回响，也创下了不错的销售成绩，但都还不如后来在法国以《五岁时，我杀了自己》为名问世的版本。 霍华德．布登以此书在法国一炮而红，并以惊人的销量稳坐法国书市，出版至今30多年来，这部小说因为内容太令人震撼，持续受到讨论，它所累积的读者群已涵盖各个年龄层。在法国读者眼中，它与经典文学名著《小王子》具有同等地位，并推崇它为法国版的《麦田守望者》。 这部作品不止被搬上大银...(展开全部)

Bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr's in love--with an exotic Eastern European beauty who shares his obsession with Humphrey Bogart movies. He's in heaven, munching popcorn with his new amour every night at a Bogart Film Festival--until their "Casablanca"-esque idyll is cut short by his other secret passion: "burglary." When he's hired to pilfer a portfolio of valuable documents from...(展开全部)

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

作者简介 康奈尔・伍尔里奇 （Cornell Woolrich） 生于1903年。 19世纪 20年代他在哥伦比亚 大学时开始创作小说， 并于30年代至40年代 与雷蒙德・钱德勒以 及詹姆士・M・凯恩 一起成为“黑色体裁” 小说的创始人之一。 写出了如《后窗》、 《我嫁给 了一个 (展开全部)