菲利普·罗斯（1933-2018） 1997年，菲利普•罗斯凭借《美国牧歌》摘得普利策文学奖。1998年，罗斯在白宫受颁美国国家艺术勋章。2002年，他又获得美国艺术文学院颁发的最高荣誉——虚构类作品金奖，该奖的往届获奖者有约翰•多斯•帕索斯、威廉•福克纳、索尔•贝娄等著名作家。罗斯于1960年、1996年分别凭借处女作《再见，哥伦布》和《萨巴斯的剧院》两度将美国国家图书奖揽入囊中。此外，他还获得美国书评人协会奖两次，笔会/福克纳奖三次。罗斯的《反美阴谋》被誉为“2003-2004年度以美国为主题的优秀历史小说”，这部小说于2005年荣获美国历史学家协会奖和W.H.史密斯文学奖年度最佳图书。罗斯也因此成为W.H.史密斯文学奖设立四十六年以来首位两度获奖的作家。 2005年，罗斯成为第三位由美国文库为其出版权威版作品全集的在世作家。此后，罗斯接连获得笔...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction—pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himse...(展开全部)

At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman him...(展开全部)

忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

凯特·阿歇尔 美国作家，毕业于布朗大学政治系，后于伦敦政治经济学院取得政府管理硕士和博士学位。曾在纽约市经济发展公司、纽约和新泽西港务局任职，在沃那多房产公司担任高管，现于哥伦比亚大学建筑、规划及历史保护研究生院担任教授。

A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city Have you ever wondered how the water in your faucet gets there? Where your garbage goes? What the pipes under city streets do? How bananas from Ecuador get to your local market? Why radiators in apartment buildings clang? Using New York City as its point of reference, The Works takes readers down manholes ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder a...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is unwitting party to a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder a...(展开全部)

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family—and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for—and everything she feared