Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, thei...(展开全部)

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Roy is still young when his father, a failed dentist and hapless fisherman, puts a .44 magnum to his head and commits suicide on the deck of his beloved boat. Throughout his life, Roy returns to that moment, gripped by its memory and the shadow it casts over his small-town boyhood, describing with poignant, mercurial wit his parents' woeful marriage and inevitable divorce, thei...(展开全部)

A childhood accident has left young Shiki Tohno with the ability to see the hidden lines or weak points in all things - be they organic or inanimate. By striking or cutting along these lines Shiki can slice through anything. Unfortunately the gift comes packaged with a nearly irresistable urge to kill using his new ability.

In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascina...(展开全部)

In "Ichthyology," a young boy watches his father spiral from divorce to suicide. The story is told obliquely, often through the boy's observations of his tropical fish, yet also reveals his father's last desperate moves, including quitting dentistry for commercial fishing in the Bering Sea. "Rhoda" goes back to the beginning of the father's second marriage and the boy's fascina...(展开全部)

浦沢直树：1960年1月2日出生，毕业于明星大学经济系，是日本青年漫画画坛的主力画手之一。自幼喜欢绘画，在大学时期更沉醉于漫画与音乐创作。毕业后，凭《RETURN》（《回归》）入选小学馆新人大赏，晋身职业漫画家行列。1990年凭《YAWARA》（《柔之道》）获得第35回小学馆漫画赏，遂成为日本最受欢迎的漫画家之一。在以体育漫画为题材的《YAWARA》（《柔之道》）和《HAPPY!》（《网坛小魔女》）奠定基础后，其画风题材开始变化，以刻画社会现象为主，《PINAPPLE ARMY》（《终极佣兵》）和《MASTER KEATON》（《危险调查员》）是其转型之作。从《MONSTER》（《怪物》）开始，浦沢的风格和思想更加成熟，故事紧张悬疑，1999年《MONSTER》（《怪物》）获得朝日新闻主办的第三届手冢治虫文化赏漫画大赏。2001年新作《20TH CE...(展开全部)

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the of...(展开全部)

Wenham & Geraldine are a long-established and very well respected publishing firm, so when a printer's proof is sabotaged and libellous passages are mysteriously reinstated, they call in private detective Nigel Strangeways. But the situation takes a turn for the worse when one of the publishers' best-selling authors - glamorous novelist Millicent Miles - is found dead in the of...(展开全部)