Achieves a great deal in a short time . . . It's an edgy read, worthy of Don DeLillo'

约翰·班维尔及其犯罪小说 一 爱尔兰作家约翰·班维尔，1945年12月8日出生于爱尔兰共和国威克斯福德郡，曾担任《爱尔兰时报》文学编辑，是一位敏锐的评论家，也是一位多产的作家，多次获得文学大奖。他的小说用词丰富，语言优美，富有诗意。自1970年发表《朗·兰金》以来，他先后发表了《哥白尼博士》、《开普勒》和《牛顿书信》以及“框架三部曲”等。他的“框架三部曲”《证词》、《幽灵》和《雅典娜》堪与贝克特的《马洛伊》、《马洛伊之死》、《无名的人》媲美。2005年，班维尔的第十四部小说《海》获得英国“布克奖”。布克奖评委会将他誉为“文字大师”、“二十一世纪最伟大的小说文体家之一”，认为小说《海》采用了漂亮的散文手法，“足以代表班维尔写作的高峰”，并称这种风格是“这个时代最好的写作风格之一”。这是自1993年罗蒂·道尔以《帕蒂·克拉克，哈哈哈》“夺冠”的十二年后，...(展开全部)

A new thriller from the Booker Prize-winning and Edgar-nominated author of "Christine"" Falls" and "The Silver Swan" John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable. He's given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. He works in a big office in Mulholland Tow...(展开全部)

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after an ankle injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determi...(展开全部)