A literary page-turner about one manas macabre ambition to create lifeaand secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet little place until the geneticist Dr. Victor Hoppe returns after an absence of nearly twenty years. The doctor brings with him his infant childrenathree identical boys all sharing a disturbing disfigurement. He keeps them hidden away until Charlotte,...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who read it" ( Booklist, starred review). On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter has a near-fatal car accident. His older sister, Karin, returns reluctantly to their hometow...(展开全部)

理查德·鲍尔斯（1957— ）　美国小说家，曾就读于伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校物理系，后获文学硕士学位。他兴趣广泛，博览群书，涉猎考古学、海洋学、历史、社会学、政治学、美学、医学、音乐等领域。 鲍尔斯是在电视和电脑时代出生的第一代人的代言人，被誉为美国文坛在后品钦时代涌现的最重要、最令人钦佩的作家之一。他的小说致力于探索现代科学技术的影响，呈现出鲜明的后现代主义小说的特点，把词汇上的艺术鉴赏力和结构上的大胆结合得令人眼花缭乱。他大都采用多角度平行叙事的表现手法，以对照不同人物的性格，增加故事的悬念和复杂性，并提醒读者：我们从未如此紧密地联系在一起，同时又从未如此孤单。此外，他还注重事实与虚构相结合，并通过不确定性的语言符号系统构建虚拟世界，以揭示现实世界的零散和混乱。鲍尔斯获得过各种奖项二十多次。

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted ...(展开全部)

Synopsis On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds j...(展开全部)

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister ...(展开全部)

A stunning volume accompanies the largest retrospective of this modernist master ever mounted, an exhibit, opening at the Musee du Luxembourg in Paris in October 2002 and running through March 2003, will be a comprehensive survey of Modigliani's career, from his earliest days as a painter in search of a style to his premature death in 1920. The exhibit presents Modigliani's pai...(展开全部)

Speaking with the Angel : 12 completely new stories, narrated by 12 completely fabulous characters, written by 12 of the most celebrated voices in fiction today. Bestselling author Nick Hornby has brought together a star-studded group of writers to create this one-of-a-kind collection of first-person narratives. From the imaginations of Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh...(展开全部)

William Olaf Stapledon was born in 1886 and educated at Abbotsholme School, Balliol College,Oxford,and Liverpool Univesity.After spending eighteen months with a shipping office in Liverpool and Port Said,he lectured extramurally for Liverpool University in English literature and industrial history. He served in France with the Friend's Ambulance Unit from 1915 to 1919.He subseq...(展开全部)