This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary...(展开全部)

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he’d completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, not to mention triathlons and a dozen critically acclaimed books, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and—even more important—on his writing. Equal p...(展开全部)

村上春树，日本著名作家。 循着岁月流逝、地点变迁，唯有四分之一个世纪里日日坚持跑步的所见所闻、所惑所思最是真真切切：1982年秋，开始职业作家生涯之际，也开始长跑。此后近30年，从夏威夷的考爱岛到马萨诸塞的剑桥，从日本村上市参加铁人三项赛，到踏上希腊马拉松长跑古道，他，永远奔跑。

村上春树，日本著名作家。 循着岁月流逝、地点变迁，唯有四分之一个世纪里日日坚持跑步的所见所闻、所惑所思最是真真切切：1982年秋，开始职业作家生涯之际，也开始长跑。此后近30年，从夏威夷的考爱岛到马萨诸塞的剑桥，从日本村上市参加铁人三项赛，到踏上希腊马拉松长跑古道，他，永远奔跑。

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

A densely illustrated and comprehensive introduction to an art form that is enjoying a boon in popularity due to its links with pop culture, fashion, and music. This engaging and unpretentious introduction to contemporary dance explores the discipline in all its facets, from opera to hip-hop and from circus skills to fashion. A chronology of the key dates in the history of danc...(展开全部)

Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster. In How to Talk about Videogames, leading critic Ian Bogost explores this par...(展开全部)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)