A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midweste...(展开全部)

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice. A novel of rare emotional power that excavates the social intricacies of a late-summer weekend--and a lifetime of buried pain. Almost everything about Wallace, an introverted African-American transplant from Alabama, is at odds with the lakeside Midweste...(展开全部)

In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows th...(展开全部)

"Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." -- John Updike The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story -- subtle, intricate, leading to a tantalizing climax -- about the mysterious life of a famous writer. Many people knew things about Sebastian Knight as a distinguished novelist, but probably fewer tha...(展开全部)

The life of Agatha Christie was as mysterious and eventful as her fiction. This beautifully illustrated graphic novel traces the life of the Queen of Whodunnit from her childhood in Torquay, England, through a career filled with success, mischief, and adventure, to her later years as Dame Agatha. Revealing a side to Christie that will surprise and delight many readers, Agatha i...(展开全部)

蕾丝莉•肯顿（1941- ），畅销书作家,出版了三十余本畅销书，内容涉及健康、美容和心理。她的美容原生态产品构想，被知名品牌雅诗兰黛所采用，是英国天然药物协会的首位主席。 蕾丝莉•肯顿是美国著名爵士乐音乐家斯坦利•肯顿的女儿。二十世纪五六十年代，斯坦利•肯顿在美国红极一时。直至今日，斯坦利对爵士乐所做的种种创新，仍延续在美国爵士乐的血脉之中。 2010年，《我与父亲的爱情》这部回忆录由兰登书屋出版。书中蕾丝莉回忆了斯坦利家族的生活琐事，第一次揭秘了自己与那个才华横溢但又胆怯自卑、酗酒嗑药的父亲之间的不伦之恋。

蕾丝莉•肯顿（1941- ），畅销书作家,出版了三十余本畅销书，内容涉及健康、美容和心理。她的美容原生态产品构想，被知名品牌雅诗兰黛所采用，是英国天然药物协会的首位主席。 蕾丝莉•肯顿是美国著名爵士乐音乐家斯坦利•肯顿的女儿。二十世纪五六十年代，斯坦利•肯顿在美国红极一时。直至今日，斯坦利对爵士乐所做的种种创新，仍延续在美国爵士乐的血脉之中。 2010年，《我与父亲的爱情》这部回忆录由兰登书屋出版。书中蕾丝莉回忆了斯坦利家族的生活琐事，第一次揭秘了自己与那个才华横溢但又胆怯自卑、酗酒嗑药的父亲之间的不伦之恋。