Amazon Best Books of the Month, January 2011: In the year since his death, we've heard much more about J.D. Salinger's reclusiveness and eccentricities, both real and exaggerated, than we have about the writing that made him famous in the first place. Kenneth Slawenski's Salinger: A Life avoids such scandalmongering in order to deliver a sensitive (but not fawning) portrait of ...(展开全部)

Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company—The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people—and published in coordination with the international theatrical release of a major documentary film from the Weinstein Company—The Private War of J.D. Salinger is a global cultural event: the definitive biography of one of the most beloved and mysterious figures of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least four “careers.” As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentie...(展开全部)

The first full-scale biography in twenty-five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–a book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit. Louis Dembitz Brandeis had at least four “careers.” As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentie...(展开全部)

加•泽文 (Gabrielle Zevin ，1977— ) 美国知名作家、编剧。年轻并极富魅力，深爱阅读与创作。 毕业于哈佛大学英美文学系的她，已出版了九本小说，作品被翻译成三十多种语言。14岁时，她写了一封关于“枪与玫瑰乐团”的信函投给当地报社，措词激烈，意外获得该报的乐评人一职，迈出了成为作家的第一步。28岁时，出版《时光倒流的女孩》，一举成名。 一直以来，她对书、书店以及爱书人的未来，都充满见解。她的第八本小说《岛上书店》在2014年以无人能及的高票数，获选美国独立书商选书桂冠图书；在中国已成为超级畅销书，是无数书店常推常新的作品。《太年轻》是她的第九本小说，《华盛顿时报》评论道：“本质上，这是一部关于女性主义的、充满智慧的杰作！” 泽文的创作丰富，而一以贯之的，是用轻盈的文字，充满想象力的故事和洞见，书写深刻的人生话题。 泽文还为《纽约时报...(展开全部)

A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over--and see everything anew. “This novel ...(展开全部)

加•泽文 (Gabrielle Zevin ，1977— ) 美国知名作家、编剧。年轻并极富魅力，深爱阅读与创作。 毕业于哈佛大学英美文学系的她，已出版了九本小说，作品被翻译成三十多种语言。14岁时，她写了一封关于“枪与玫瑰乐团”的信函投给当地报社，措词激烈，意外获得该报的乐评人一职，迈出了成为作家的第一步。28岁时，出版《时光倒流的女孩》，一举成名。 一直以来，她对书、书店以及爱书人的未来，都充满见解。她的第八本小说《岛上书店》在2014年以无人能及的高票数，获选美国独立书商选书桂冠图书；在中国已成为超级畅销书，是无数书店常推常新的作品。《太年轻》是她的第九本小说，《华盛顿时报》评论道：“本质上，这是一部关于女性主义的、充满智慧的杰作！” 泽文的创作丰富，而一以贯之的，是用轻盈的文字，充满想象力的故事和洞见，书写深刻的人生话题。 泽文还为《纽约时报...(展开全部)

A. J. Fikry’s life is not at all what he expected it to be. He lives alone, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. But when a mysterious package appears at the bookstore, its unexpected arrival gives Fikry the chance to make his life over--and see everything anew. “This novel ...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)