When Raymond Carver died at age fifty, readers lost a distinctive voice in its prime. Carver was, the Times of London said, "the Chekhov of middle America." His influence on a generation of writers and on the short story itself has been widely noted. Not so generally known are how Carver became a writer, how he suffered to achieve his art, and how his troubled and remarkable ...(展开全部)

《雷蒙德·卡佛：一位作家的一生》卡萝尔·斯克莱尼卡 这部传记耗时10年，作者做了大量的研究工作，写得一丝不苟，怀着同情，熟练地整合了传主的作品和动荡的甚或——饱受酗酒、金融波动和家庭失和之苦。斯克莱尼卡敏锐地剖析了卡佛根他的编辑戈登·利什之间充满不愉快的关系，利什在卡佛的小说创作中起了非同寻常的作用。

Raymond Carver's spare dramas of loneliness, despair, and troubled relationships breathed new life into the American short story of the 1970s and '80s. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivati...(展开全部)

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life and Lives Like Loaded Guns. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN. She lives in Oxford.

"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."—Scott Elledge "[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."—Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" ( The New Yorker ) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art—her childho...(展开全部)

This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the...(展开全部)

This prize-winning biography, newly revised, sees Virginia Woolf as she saw herself. The first to set out the private life behind the well-known facts of her public career, A Writer's Life rocks back and forth between memories and art to reveal an explorer of 'the infinite oddity of the human position'. Instead of the doom-and-death often imposed on women of genius, here is the...(展开全部)

Lyndall Gordon is the prize-winning author of T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life and Lives Like Loaded Guns. She is a Fellow at the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN. She lives in Oxford.

"[T]he most informative, most nearly definitive, most judicious word on this major, modern writer."—Scott Elledge "[M]easured, and brave in its imaginative interpretations."—Carolyn Heilbrun, The New York Times Book Review This "original, intuitive, and even exciting" ( The New Yorker ) portrait highlights the experiences that shaped Virginia Woolf's life and art—her childho...(展开全部)

From 1892, when he was eighteen, until 1949 when this book was first published, Somerset Maugham kept a notebook. It is without a doubt one of his most important works. Part autobiographical, part confessional, packed with observations, confidences, experiments and jottings it is a rich and exhilarating admission into this great writer’s workshop.