Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

麦家，现居成都。出版有长篇小说，《解密》《暗算》，小说集《紫密黑密》《地下的天空》《让蒙面人说话》等多部。其笔下人物均系一群智力超凡的天才特工，其文风智性灵异，偏执不羁，是中国“新智力小说”和“特情小说”的开创者。根据其同名小说改编的电视剧《暗算》深受观众喜爱。

A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air. Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark shows the author at the peak of his narrative powers. With an introduction by Robert B. Parker, the author of the celebrated Spenser novel...(展开全部)

Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities o...(展开全部)

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence shift and obscure the facts; meanwhile his night-time reading of Irish legends weaves enchantment through reality. Claustrophobic but l...(展开全部)

A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.