Like her art, Marilyn Monroe was rooted in paradox: she was a powerful star and a childlike waif; a joyful, irreverent party girl with a deeply spiritual side; a superb friend and a narcissist; a dumb blonde and an intellectual. No previous biographer has recognised - much less attempted to analyse - most of these aspects of her personality. Lois Banner has. Since Marilyn's pre...(展开全部)

珍妮特•温特森（Jeanette Winterson） 当代最好也是最有争议性的作家之一。 1959年，生于英格兰的曼彻斯特。自小由坚信宗教的夫妇收养。当时家中有六本书，其中《亚瑟王之死》激发了温特森对书本和写作的渴望。 1978年，温特森与一个女孩相爱，离家出走。她在殡仪馆、精神病院等地留宿打工，但仍以全A的成绩考进牛津大学英语系。 1985年，处女作《橘子不是唯一的水果》出版，荣获惠特布莱德首作奖。由她亲自改编的同名BBC剧集也大获好评，获得各项国际大奖。 代表作品有：《激情》、《给樱桃以性别》、《写在身体上》、《艺术与谎言》、《苹果笔记本》、《守望灯塔》等。 二○○六年，温特森以其杰出的文学成就被授予英帝国勋章（OBE）。 ———————— 李玉瑶 本行编辑，业余翻译。 已出版译作《购物狂的异想世界》、《塔拉路》、《大草原之旅》、《猫：九十九条...(展开全部)

Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French so...(展开全部)

Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French so...(展开全部)

唐纳德·斯波托已出版有十一部作品，其中包括劳伦斯·奥利弗、阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克、田纳西·威廉斯和玛琳·黛德丽的国际畅销传记。他获得了福特汉姆大学的博士学位，长期以来一直在世界各地从事教学工作，现今在纽约和欧洲两地居住。 译者简介： 徐海幈，兰州大学新闻学专业硕士学位，先后在《中国新闻周刊》、《三联生活周刊》、《时代人物周报》等杂志工作，在瑞典的隆德大学获得影视制作和亚洲研究（印度方向）两个专业的硕士学位。从2011年开始，以自由译者的身份开始从事图书翻译工作，迄今为止翻译了《丘吉尔传》（罗伊•詹金斯）、《叶卡捷琳娜大帝：通往权力之路》（罗伯特·K.迈锡）等五十余种图书。

Set in an imaginary European city, The Passion Artist takes us into the dream-like interior world of Konrad Vost, a middle-aged widower grieving for his dead wife, devoted to his schoolgirl daughter, and obsessed with the memory and the fate of his mother, who is an inmate in the city s prison. When Vost discovers that his daughter has become a prostitute, and that the women pr...(展开全部)

Product Description Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center. From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise....(展开全部)