They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie. There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it....(展开全部)

劳伦•奥利弗（Lauren Oliver）毕业于芝加哥大学，并在纽约大学获得艺术硕士学位。现为全职作家，居住在纽约布鲁克林。 《忽然七日》她的第一部小说，以一种独特的结构，讲述了一个爱与救赎的故事，令全美年轻读者沉思且热烈欢迎，是2010年亚马逊网络书店最佳青年读物，也是2011年美国图书馆协会最佳小说。本书是她的第二部作品，以奇谲的想象和纯净的笔调、奔放的激情，讴歌了真爱的美好和对自由的热烈赞颂。别致的风格使其刚一出版，便立刻成为亚马逊书2011年春季选书。这位热情又活泼的作家除了自己的官网外，在其他社交网站如Facebook, Twitter, Myspace上都有她的身影，便于与读者的

Oliver’s follow-up to her smash debut, Before I Fall (2010), is another deft blend of realism and fantasy. The hook is irresistible: it’s the near future, a time when love has long since been identified as a disease called amor deliria nervosa, and 17-year-old Lena is 95 days away from the operation that everyone gets to cure themselves. Can you feel the swoon coming? Enter Ale...(展开全部)

Internationally acclaimed for the virtuosity and power of her fiction, Laura Restrepo has created in Delirium a passionate, lyrical, devastating tale of eros and insanity. Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn’t know what has ha...(展开全部)

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to stu...(展开全部)

The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium of Praise, this mode of exchange is serious and substantial enough to merit scholarly attention. By not conforming to standard practices of critical discourse, laudatory essays give n...(展开全部)

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to stu...(展开全部)

The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium of Praise, this mode of exchange is serious and substantial enough to merit scholarly attention. By not conforming to standard practices of critical discourse, laudatory essays give n...(展开全部)