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)

Graphic L.A. is part practical instruction, part guided meditation on the importance of color values and objects in art. The reader is led by the professional instruction of Robh Ruppel; instructor at the Art Center College of Design, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and Concept Art Academy. He is also a multiple award-winning art director of video games. By reducing environmen...(展开全部)

(From the Catalog-Movie) Los Angeles, 1953: six innocent people gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force, burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, t...(展开全部)

Graphic L.A. is part practical instruction, part guided meditation on the importance of color values and objects in art. The reader is led by the professional instruction of Robh Ruppel; instructor at the Art Center College of Design, Gnomon School of Visual Effects, and Concept Art Academy. He is also a multiple award-winning art director of video games. By reducing environmen...(展开全部)

(From the Catalog-Movie) Los Angeles, 1953: six innocent people gunned down at an all-night diner. Three policemen arrive to investigate: Ed Exley, goaded by his father's success on the force, burning to eclipse him; Bud White, witness to his mother's murder, a time bomb with a badge; and Jack Vincennes, former addict, a shake-down artist who works celebrities. Worse yet, t...(展开全部)

A reckoning has come to the City of Angels...Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops - he wants someone he knows on the case - so he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doe...(展开全部)

The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the head.Now Karen's father calls on Pike and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on th...(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)

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