In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what "land" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the Net Terminal Gene—a genetic mutation that once allowed humans to access the cybernetic NetSphere. Armed with a powerful Graviton Beam Emitter, Kyrii fends off waves of attac...(展开全部)

Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth. The Japanese go to the most extraordinary lengths and expense to eat the finest, most delectable, and downright freakiest food imaginable. Their creativity, dedication and ingenuity, not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm, whale penis and octopus ice cream, is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in th...(展开全部)

Hard-nosed, bitch-goddess London fashion editor Lisa Edwards was certain her "fabulous" promotion would mean more A-list parties, society page photos, and jet-setting jaunts to the fall collections. </p> Instead, she's being deported, Prada wardrobe and all, to supremely un-chic Dublin to launch Colleen magazine. Her assistant editor, over-organized world-class worrier As...(展开全部)

A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in ...(展开全部)

Dammit', she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown'. Hot-shot magazine editor Lisa Edwards' career is destined for high-rise New York when suddenly she's diverted to low-rise Dublin. But what can she do about it? Ashling Kennedy, Lisa's super-organized assistant, worries about everything from her lack of waist to the lack of men in her life. She's even anxious about...(展开全部)

John Darnielle describes Master of Reality in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric center in southern California in 1985. The narrator explains Black Sabbath like an emissary from an alien race describing his culture to his captors: passionately, patiently, and lovingly. This album has a genuinely remarkable historical status: as a touch...(展开全部)

Lisa Edwards This Prada-wearing magazine editor thinks her life is over when her "fabulous" new job turns out to be a deportation to Dublin to launch Colleen magazine. The only saving grace is that her friends aren't there to witness her downward spiral. Might her new boss, the disheveled and moody Jack Devine, save her from a fate worse than hell? Ashling Kennedy Ashling, Coll...(展开全部)

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

《THE MASTER》是Colm Toibin以 Henry James為研究對象完成的小說。 來自紐約愛爾蘭移民家庭的Henry James，在歐洲創作出（The Wings of the Dove）、〈The Ambassadors〉等膾炙人口的經典作品，不過他一生未婚與同志傳言的消息也讓這位作家增添幾分神秘，Colm Toibin蒐集了許多Henry James的資料與訪談家人與朋友，試圖以文字描繪與剖析這位文壇大師的內心世界。 本書在入選本年英國 Man Booker prize for fiction候選名單之後，曾獲布克獎提名，也獲得2004年紐約時報年度好書的榮譽。

ある冬の寒い日、病弱の母と二人暮らしの猪瀬東の家に、一人の男が訪ねてくる。 昔の猪瀬家の使用人で今は金貸しをしているという松岡末治は、困窮する母と東に援助を申し出る。 最初は不信感を抱く東だったが、松岡はかつての恩を返したいだけだと告げる。 そんな松岡に徐々に惹かれるようになる東。 しかし、松岡はいつまで経っても一線を画す態度で…? 生まれも育ちも異なる二人が共に巡る春夏秋冬