Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as ...(展开全部)

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dotcom boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there's no shortage of s...(展开全部)

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

Small disturbances have surprising ramifications at the Castrevenford School, in another taut and clever Crispin novel. Gervase Fen, the Oxford Professor who has been invited to give a speech at the school, is soon in the thick of a mystery that grows deadlier as it becomes more inexplicable. What, if anything, is worth the risk of committing murder?

托马斯•品钦（Thomas Pynchon） 当代文学巨擘，被哈罗德•布鲁姆称作美国当代最重要的四位作家之一，屡次入列诺贝尔文学奖候选名单。 品钦对个人生活讳莫如深，成名后深居简出，早年的照片和档案也离奇消失，引发了媒体、学界和书迷对其生活的狂热考证。作品包含着丰富的意旨、风格和主题，通过迷宫式的叙事和对自然科学、前沿科技、高等数学、现代物理等领域的概念借用，描绘了美国光怪陆离的社会全景，道出了现代社会中人类的艰难处境，展现了鬼才品钦诡谲的视角，以及对黑色幽默、犯罪悬疑、侦探等元素的娴熟运用。 其代表作《万有引力之虹》被评论家称为借助神力完成的大百科全书式作品，曾获美国全国图书奖，但拒绝领奖。亦著有《拍卖第四十九批》《V》《葡萄园》等重要作品。 蒋怡 毕业于南京大学外国语学院英语系，获文学博士学位，现任教于江南大学外国语学院英语系，译有《最接近生活的...(展开全部)

Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

“WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Lawrence Krauss’s provocative answers to these and other timeless questions in a wildly popular lecture now on YouTube have attracted almost a million viewers. The last of these questions in particular has been at the center of relig...(展开全部)