A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996...(展开全部)

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships bringing to mind her award-winning 1996...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed b...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed b...(展开全部)

此書包括九篇短篇小說。在這九篇故事裡，瑪格麗特‧愛特伍揭露了人性中奇特且帶點邪惡的面相。如娥蘇拉‧勒瑰恩之語，就像透心涼的砒霜冰棒，加上炭疽病調味的火烤冰淇淋，而她卻說得非常若無其事。 前三篇＜艾芬蘭＞、＜歸人＞、＜黑髮女士＞可以視為連作，講述年老的奇幻女作家如何面對摯愛丈夫之死，以及像幽魂一樣纏繞不休的過往；而這一切，全都封印在琥珀般的文字裡。 ＜造化弄人＞是畸形的女孩如何在眾人的眼光與言詞形塑之下，轉變成真正的怪物； ＜冷凍脫水新郎＞帶有黑色幽默； ＜死亡之手愛上你＞這篇談的則是愛的「永恆與執著」，讓人冷汗直冒； ＜我夢見秦妮雅長了鮮亮的紅牙＞是續寫《強盜新娘》中三名女子的心結； ＜石墊＞描述人在旅途中如何殺死另一個人，卻能安然脫身，恰是謀殺犯案最佳示範； ＜燒死老廢物＞寫老人之家住民受到攻擊，只因為他們的年齡…… 在愛特伍筆下，恐怖的氛圍又會讓...(展开全部)

此書包括九篇短篇小說。在這九篇故事裡，瑪格麗特‧愛特伍揭露了人性中奇特且帶點邪惡的面相。如娥蘇拉‧勒瑰恩之語，就像透心涼的砒霜冰棒，加上炭疽病調味的火烤冰淇淋，而她卻說得非常若無其事。 前三篇＜艾芬蘭＞、＜歸人＞、＜黑髮女士＞可以視為連作，講述年老的奇幻女作家如何面對摯愛丈夫之死，以及像幽魂一樣纏繞不休的過往；而這一切，全都封印在琥珀般的文字裡。 ＜造化弄人＞是畸形的女孩如何在眾人的眼光與言詞形塑之下，轉變成真正的怪物； ＜冷凍脫水新郎＞帶有黑色幽默； ＜死亡之手愛上你＞這篇談的則是愛的「永恆與執著」，讓人冷汗直冒； ＜我夢見秦妮雅長了鮮亮的紅牙＞是續寫《強盜新娘》中三名女子的心結； ＜石墊＞描述人在旅途中如何殺死另一個人，卻能安然脫身，恰是謀殺犯案最佳示範； ＜燒死老廢物＞寫老人之家住民受到攻擊，只因為他們的年齡…… 在愛特伍筆下，恐怖的氛圍又會讓...(展开全部)

From the author of The Last Mughal , an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in c...(展开全部)

Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor". (Nine Stories is the U.S. title; the book is published in many other countries as For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories.) The storie...(展开全部)

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worr...(展开全部)

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worr...(展开全部)