The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

Alice Lindgren出生在1940年，非常喜愛閱讀並擔任圖書管理員的她從沒想過有一天竟然會嫁給總統，成為第一夫人。 在位於美國威斯康辛州小鎮的家鄉裡，她從小被父母灌輸學習女性的美德與禮儀，但17歲那年，一場突如其來的意外改變了日後的生命歷程。十多年後，Alice結識了一位出生於共和黨政治世家的紈褲子弟，最終被他的誠意打動，陷入熱戀，並走入婚姻。 當她的丈夫順利地擔任政府要職，並意外地成為美國總統後，她發現自己嫁給了一個她確實深愛著、卻與自己想法相左的丈夫。不僅如此，還要參加跟自己信仰完全不同的宗教儀式。 她的丈夫即將再度連任，Alice必須正視存在內心裡這多年來所累積的矛盾與面對幾乎不可能有答案的問題。

On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House–and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, “almost in opposition to itself.” A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid pare...(展开全部)

作者简介： 安•布拉谢尔：美国人，《纽约时报》畅销书作者，《牛仔裤的夏天》系列小说的作者。安∙布拉谢尔是个狂热的书迷，2001年她创作了小说《牛仔裤的夏天》，全球销量5000万册，该书稳居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，成为席卷全美国的文化热潮，赢得了读者和评论界的一致好评。

作者简介： 安•布拉谢尔：美国人，《纽约时报》畅销书作者，《牛仔裤的夏天》系列小说的作者。安∙布拉谢尔是个狂热的书迷，2001年她创作了小说《牛仔裤的夏天》，全球销量5000万册，该书稳居《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，成为席卷全美国的文化热潮，赢得了读者和评论界的一致好评。

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Last Summer (of You and Me) comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime.

From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Last Summer (of You and Me) comes an imaginative, inspired, magical book-a love story that lasts more than a lifetime. Daniel has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. Life after life, crossing continents and dynasties, he and Sophia (despite her changing name an...(展开全部)

A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde , which earned hi...(展开全部)

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of the most prominent contemporary Turkish writers. The Sultan has commissioned a cadre of the most acclaimed artists in the land to create a great ...(展开全部)