Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and oprsano Renée Flem...(展开全部)

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy―iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, this had its world premiere at The Shed in New ...(展开全部)

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy―iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, this had its world premiere at The Shed in New ...(展开全部)

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years 'Effortlessly readable and – a word critics don’t often use about her – fun' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I'm a big fan... She pinpoints the collision of oracle and anachronism' TEJU COLE As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-designed book, drawn and annotated...(展开全部)

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first collection of original work since Float (2016). Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, many of these startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guan...(展开全部)

Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first collection of original work since Float (2016). Published here in a stunning edition with images created by Carson, many of these startling poetic prose pieces have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker and Paris Review. As Carson writes: "Wrong Norma is a collection of writings about different things, like Joseph Conrad, Guan...(展开全部)

大卫·盖梅尔（David Gemmell），英国家喻户晓的历史奇幻小说家。奇幻文学界为纪念他成立了“大卫·盖梅尔传奇奖”，目前已成为奇幻文学界重要的奖项。他的作品多次登上《伦敦时报》畅销榜榜首，第一本小说《传奇》出版于1984年，之后不断再版，已成为经典。盖梅尔2006年在英格兰家中辞世。

An illuminating, erudite, lively search for the real Helen of Troy–a chronicle that combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan–from one of Britain’s most widely acclaimed and popular historians. As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject; for close to three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beau...(展开全部)