艾拉•莱文，美国当代著名小说家、剧作家。毕业于纽约大学，曾在美军通讯部队服役。出道作《死前之吻》（A Kiss Before Dying）大获成功，与翁贝托•埃科的《玫瑰的名字》、约瑟芬•铁衣的《时间的女儿》一起被誉为“西方三大现象级侦探小说”。一九六七年根据妻子怀孕经验写成《失婴记》（Rosemary’s Baby），被波兰大导演罗曼•波兰斯基搬上银幕，带给美国文坛与好莱坞影业难以抹灭的影响。一九七六的惊世之作《巴西来的男孩》（The Boys From Brazil）提前预告了世纪末崛起的高科技基因工程，兼具科幻与间谍两种类型小说特色。一九八○年以《死亡陷阱》（Death Trap）拿下“美国最佳剧作奖”。一九九七年出版《失婴记续集》（Son of Rosemary）后宣告封笔。莱文一生作品不多，除了九部剧作之外，他只创作了七部长篇小说，然而每一...(展开全部)

艾拉•莱文，美国当代著名小说家、剧作家。毕业于纽约大学，曾在美军通讯部队服役。出道作《死前之吻》（A Kiss Before Dying）大获成功，与翁贝托•埃科的《玫瑰的名字》、约瑟芬•铁衣的《时间的女儿》一起被誉为“西方三大现象级侦探小说”。一九六七年根据妻子怀孕经验写成《失婴记》（Rosemary’s Baby），被波兰大导演罗曼•波兰斯基搬上银幕，带给美国文坛与好莱坞影业难以抹灭的影响。一九七六的惊世之作《巴西来的男孩》（The Boys From Brazil）提前预告了世纪末崛起的高科技基因工程，兼具科幻与间谍两种类型小说特色。一九八○年以《死亡陷阱》（Death Trap）拿下“美国最佳剧作奖”。一九九七年出版《失婴记续集》（Son of Rosemary）后宣告封笔。莱文一生作品不多，除了九部剧作之外，他只创作了七部长篇小说，然而每一...(展开全部)

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception? Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire pays tribute to ...(展开全部)

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception?

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties―and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR―it was called by reviewers there a “slanderous piece of fantasy” and part of a “hysterical chorus of malign attacks”―Zinky Boys pre...(展开全部)

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties―and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR―it was called by reviewers there a “slanderous piece of fantasy” and part of a “hysterical chorus of malign attacks”―Zinky Boys pre...(展开全部)

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people."-"Time Out New York""Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely origi...(展开全部)

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher. A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a fool. In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and ...(展开全部)

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pr...(展开全部)

Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which clai...(展开全部)