Amazon.com In this novel of social drama， a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl， a storekeeper named Paris Trout， has no great feeling of guilt， nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an e...(展开全部)

Paris Trout is a white storekeeper and moneylender in the sleepy little town of Cotton Point，Georgia He is also an implacable bigot．A long time ago he studied Iaw．but he is 130 tel，pecter of it 0ne hot summer's day he invokes his own law, with devastating results．Some of the townspeople think Paris Trout a hero for what he did：others that the law should make him pay．

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town. The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely...(展开全部)

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.#Penguin.

戴安娜·加瓦尔东（Diana Gabaldon）： 美国作家，北亚利桑那大学海洋生态学博士与荣誉人文学博士，曾在大学教授解剖学，还是多本科技、电脑期刊的撰稿人、评论员。1988年，黛安娜·加瓦尔东为了“练习”而开始写小说，不料一写就写出了风靡全球的Outlander系列。她学识渊博，感情细腻，又具有大胆的想象力和幽默感，而这些特质正是Outlander魅力的来源。

戴安娜·加瓦尔东（Diana Gabaldon）： 美国作家，北亚利桑那大学海洋生态学博士与荣誉人文学博士，曾在大学教授解剖学，还是多本科技、电脑期刊的撰稿人、评论员。1988年，黛安娜·加瓦尔东为了“练习”而开始写小说，不料一写就写出了风靡全球的Outlander系列。她学识渊博，感情细腻，又具有大胆的想象力和幽默感，而这些特质正是Outlander魅力的来源。

Set in a small Southern town in the 1930s, this classic work tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. Now a major motion picture from Fine Line Features, starring Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie, and Nell Carter.

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has go...(展开全部)

Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only recently returned to democracy. Gerardo Escobar has just been chosen to head the commission that will investigate the crimes of the old regime when his car breaks down and he is picked up by the humane doctor Roberto Miranda. But in the voice of this good Samaritan, Gerardo's wife, Pa...(展开全部)

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has go...(展开全部)