After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging f...(展开全部)

After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging f...(展开全部)

A truly original - and utterly compulsive - novel, reminiscent of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN and A SUITABLE BOY for its scope and vitality. Set in Dublin and its near surrounds AT SWIM, TWO BOYS follows the turbulent year to Easter 1916. At its core it tells the love of two boys, Jim, a naive and reticent scholar, the younger son of foolish, aspirant shopkeeper Mr Mack, and Doyler, th...(展开全部)

Maisy ventures into the water in a story sure to make a splash with young children who are learning to swim. Today Maisy is going swimming for the first time, and she is a little nervous. Good thing Eddie and Tallulah are coming, too. Eddie is a natural, but Maisy and Tallulah get into the pool slowly — ooh, it’s freezing! But soon they are kicking and floating and even blowi...(展开全部)

A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birds is the story of a young, lazy, and frequently drunk Irish college student who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dublin. When not in bed (where he seems to spend most of his time) or reading he is composing a mischief-filled novel about Dermot Trellis, a second-rate author whose characters ultimately re...(展开全部)

Flann O'Brien's innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics. Flann O'Brien's first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Flann O'Brien's first novel is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense. Operating on many levels it incorporates plots within plots, giving full rein to O'Brien's dancing intellect and Celtic wit. The undergraduate narrator lives with his uncle in Dublin, drinks too much with his friends and invents stories peopled with hilarious and unlikely...(展开全部)

弗兰·奥布莱恩————————作者 （Flann O’Brien，1911—1966） 本名布莱恩·奥诺兰（Brian Ó Nualláin），爱尔兰小说家、剧作家、讽刺作家。出生于北爱尔兰蒂龙郡斯特拉班市，毕业于都柏林大学学院，供职于都柏林地方事务部，并以笔名“迈尔斯·纳·戈帕林”（Myles na gCopaleen）在《爱尔兰时报》上长期开设专栏，撰写讽刺性文章。作为后现代主义文学的开拓者和奠基人之一，奥布莱恩与乔伊斯、贝克特并称为“爱尔兰现代文学三杰”，以其荒诞、幽默、讽刺、戏仿的独特风格，为后世留下了《双鸟渡》《第三个警察》等不朽经典，直接影响了唐纳德·巴塞尔姆、库尔特·冯内古特、吉尔伯特·索伦蒂诺、伊什梅尔·里德等小说大师的创作。 韩慕照————————译者 本名马爽，北京外国语大学英语学院英语系毕业，英国约克大学应用语言学硕士、爱丁堡大...(展开全部)

Set during the year preceding the Easter Uprising of 1916 -- Ireland's brave but fractured revolt against British rule -- At Swim, Two Boys is a tender, tragic love story and a brilliant depiction of people caught in the tide of history. Powerful and artful, and ten years in the writing, it is a masterwork from Jamie O'Neill. Jim Mack is a naïve young scholar and the son of...(展开全部)