In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character--he is a born anarchist-- and partly in...(展开全部)

理查德·拉索（Richard Russo，1949— ），美国著名小说家，编剧，普利策奖得主。1949年，出生于普通的蓝领家庭。曾就读于亚利桑那大学，1979 年，获得博士学位。拉索创作过十余部长篇小说，大都以美国“锈带”蓝领阶层和大学学院生活为蓝本创作。小说《帝国瀑布 》获得2002 年普利策小说奖。 拉索最擅长描写美国锈带小镇生活，稀松平常生活在他笔下也有一种史诗般的气质。从容的节奏、精心设计的对话、敏锐的细节、引人入胜的情节刻画、变幻莫测的内心描写，都让看似简单的家庭之爱/之恨，展现出错综复杂的情感张力。在拉索的故事王国里，蓝领阶层既闪烁着马克·吐温式的光辉，又有着约翰·埃文的变幻莫测。他从美国小镇的日常和蓝领阶级的困顿中，写出曲折的同情和怜悯，饱含着势不可挡的人性光辉。拉索的作品被美国顶尖的媒体持续推荐长达近四十年，深受安妮·普鲁、斯蒂芬·金...(展开全部)

At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. As an adult, and interim chair of the English Department, he is careening out of control. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank has a dangerous philosophy that ...(展开全部)

Published for the first time in 1979 by Rizzoli, A Man is the passionate story of Alekos Panagulis, hero of the Greek Resistance and Fallaci’s partner. On May 1, 1976, Alexandros Panagulis, known as Alekos, the lonely hero of the Greek riot against tyranny and power, died tragically in a suspicious car crash. During his funeral, millions of people crowded the streets of Athens ...(展开全部)

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a...(展开全部)

"Falling Man" is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. "DeLillo's most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art."--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times" "The clearest vi...(展开全部)

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of viol...(展开全部)

A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of viol...(展开全部)

Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged fr...(展开全部)

Evoking the work of great American masters such as Ralph Ellison, but distinctly original, Michael Thomas’ first novel is a beautifully written, insightful, and devastating account of a young black father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of the unnamed narrator’s thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged fr...(展开全部)