Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions: around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. Kay Redfield Jamison is herself a survivor of a nearly lethal suicide attempt which came after years of ba...(展开全部)

K•R.贾米森 博士，美国约翰•霍普金斯大学精神病学教授，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，从事心理学以及自杀研究20多年，被誉为自杀研究领域的心理学权威。曾任加州洛杉矶大学情感失调咨询中心主任，曾获美国基金会“预防自杀研究奖“等众多奖项。

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive ill...(展开全部)

Suicide is the third major killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions: around the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. Kay Redfield Jamison is herself a survivor of a nearly lethal suicide attempt which came after years of ba...(展开全部)

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive ill...(展开全部)

K•R.贾米森 博士，美国约翰•霍普金斯大学精神病学教授，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，从事心理学以及自杀研究20多年，被誉为自杀研究领域的心理学权威。曾任加州洛杉矶大学情感失调咨询中心主任，曾获美国基金会“预防自杀研究奖“等众多奖项。

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.

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.