‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’ A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. ‘The melancholy folklore of...(展开全部)

The acclaimed Chilean author’s first collection of stories to be published in English. Here are fourteen stories set largely among those living in the margins, on the edge. “The most haunting and mesmerizing collection I have ever read.”— Daily Telegraph

The first story collection by Roberto Bolano --"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolano's story collection "Last Evenings on Earth" was acclaimed by Francine Prose in "The New York Times Book Review" as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric ...(展开全部)

‘This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...’ A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer instructs a protégé in the subterfuges of entering work for provincial literary prizes. A litany unfolds, offering sixty-nine reasons why not to dance with Pablo Neruda. ‘The melancholy folklore of...(展开全部)

The acclaimed Chilean author’s first collection of stories to be published in English. Here are fourteen stories set largely among those living in the margins, on the edge. “The most haunting and mesmerizing collection I have ever read.”— Daily Telegraph

The first story collection by Roberto Bolano --"the real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). Roberto Bolano's story collection "Last Evenings on Earth" was acclaimed by Francine Prose in "The New York Times Book Review" as "something extraordinarily beautiful and (at least to me) entirely new.... Reading Roberto Bolano is like hearing the secret story, being shown the fabric ...(展开全部)

New York Times Best Selling author Scott Snyder reunites with Dark Nights: Metal artist Greg Capullo for their final Batman epic. Twenty years in the future Bruce Wayne wakes up in Arkham Asylum. Young. Sane. And...he's never been Batman. So begins this sprawling tale of the Dark Knight as he embarks on a quest through a devastated DC landscape featuring a massive cast of famil...(展开全部)

史蒂夫·克卢格，美国剧作家、小说家，生于1952 年，属二战后的“婴儿潮世代”，在披头士音乐的孕育中长大。克卢格的作品多以棒球、历史（尤其是二战）题材而著称，曾为《今日美国》等报纸撰写社论；除了写作，他长年投身民权运动，并致力于辅导青少年各类成长问题。写作、棒球和他的九个侄子侄女是他的至爱。

"Last Days of Summer" is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third baseman for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome the extreme attention of a persistent young fan with an o...(展开全部)

Gabrielle van Zuylen 出生法国，曾在美国求学。与Anita Péreire合著《法国的私人花园》（Arthaud，1984），由R.佩奇撰写前言，并荣获法兰西学院奖勉。她的第二本著作《R.佩奇的庭园》（Flammarion，1992），在1991年荣获美国庭园作家协会颁予“最佳庭园书籍”奖项。她同时也是国际树木研究协会及庭园爱好者组织成员，曾荣获国家农业功绩骑士勋章。她自己也是个经验十足的园丁。