约翰·多斯·帕索斯（John Dos Passos）（1896－1970），出生于美国芝加哥，当代最著名作家之一。他于1916年毕业于哈佛大学，之后加入美国红十字会救护队，参与一战。退役之后，帕索斯开始为多家报刊写作。他的处女作《一个人的开始》出版于1920年。之后共出版40多本书。 他的书聚焦于政治和社会问题，多从左翼立场出发。他忠实地记录了二十世纪美国阶级的苦难与富人阶级的颓废。随着政治观点趋向保守，他开始在作品中更多地反映美国文化。 人们公认帕索斯最重要的作品是他的《美国》三部曲。他的其他作品诸如《三个士兵》、《曼哈顿中转站》以及《哥伦比亚区》也为人所熟知。

在线阅读本书 A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels.

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling...(展开全部)

Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a b...(展开全部)

The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain unread. His beautiful Romanian girlfriend, Anya Petrescu, finds success more easily—and leaves Ian for Blade Markham, a bloviating ex-gangba...(展开全部)

The famously false memoirs of James Frey may be yesterday’s news, but as this funny riff reminds us, literary fakes are as old as literature itself. Ian Minot is an aspiring writer who labors over short stories that seem destined to remain unread. His beautiful Romanian girlfriend, Anya Petrescu, finds success more easily—and leaves Ian for Blade Markham, a bloviating ex-gangba...(展开全部)

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible vari...(展开全部)

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson），生于1943年，先后担任《今日种族》《新社会》等多家杂志的主编和副主编，《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等多家报刊的记者和撰稿人。1983年成为国际艺术代理商，多次揭发轰动世界的艺术界丑闻，曾亲自追踪查访大量窃取欧洲古艺术宝藏的犯罪团伙；1997年起任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员。其著述颇丰，代表作有《德国天才》《20世纪思想史》《大分离：旧大陆与新大陆的历史与人性》《卡拉瓦乔的阴谋》等。

彼得•沃森（Peter Watson），生于1943年，先后担任《今日种族》《新社会》等多家杂志的主编和副主编，《泰晤士报》《纽约时报》等多家报刊的记者和撰稿人。1983年成为国际艺术代理商，多次揭发轰动世界的艺术界丑闻，曾亲自追踪查访大量窃取欧洲古艺术宝藏的犯罪团伙；1997年起任剑桥大学麦克唐纳考古研究所研究员。其著述颇丰，代表作有《德国天才》《20世纪思想史》《大分离：旧大陆与新大陆的历史与人性》《卡拉瓦乔的阴谋》等。