I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family" Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility l...(展开全部)

From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master , and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family , Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift...(展开全部)

From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction. In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from t...(展开全部)

I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up "The Empty Family", Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility ...(展开全部)

In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the f...(展开全部)

In The Empty Space, groundbreaking director Peter Brook draws on a life in love with the stage to explore the issues facing any theatrical performance. Here he describes important developments in theatre from the last century, as well as smaller scale events, from productions by Stanislavsky to the rise of Method Acting, from Brecht’s revolutionary alienation technique to the f...(展开全部)

當代偵探小說巨匠 傑佛瑞．迪佛 JEFFERY DEAVER 一九五○年出生於芝加哥郊區的傑佛瑞．迪佛，從小即嶄露寫作的天分，他在十一歲時便完成個人第一部小說，而後更以詩作、小說得過多項文學獎。他曾當過記者、民謠歌手；從密蘇里大學新聞系畢業後，一度為雜誌社撰稿；之後又進入福特翰大學就讀法律系，取得學位後，曾在華爾街工作數年，而也就是在這段漫長的通勤時日裡，他開始以自己所熱愛的偵探小說進行創作。 他至今已出版近二十本小說，作品被譯成二十五種以上語文版本。在他眾多的作品中，最受矚目的是讓他躋身暢銷作家之列的『神探萊姆』系列，其中《人骨拼圖》被環球影業公司改拍成電影，由丹佐．華盛頓和安吉莉娜．裘莉主演。 迪佛不僅是全美各大暢銷書榜的常客，亦曾獲『安東尼小說獎』提名、兩度獲選『艾勒里．昆恩讀書會』年度最佳短篇小說獎，以及五度獲美國偵探作家協會提名『艾德嘉獎』...(展开全部)

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

威廉·特雷弗（1928—2016），爱尔兰著名作家，被视为当代英语文坛最杰出的短篇小说家之一。他生于爱尔兰一个中产阶级新教家庭，毕业于都柏林圣三一大学历史系，成为职业作家前，先后做过雕塑家、教师和广告公司文案撰写人。从1954年起，他和妻子移居英国。 特雷弗一生出版近四 十部长篇小说、短篇小说集、戏剧以及散文集。他的作品曾五次入围布克奖，四次获得欧·亨利奖，三次获得英国惠特布雷德奖，2008年，他获得爱尔兰图书奖终身成就奖，一度是诺贝尓文学奖热门人选。 2016年11月，特雷弗病逝于英格兰萨默塞特郡。

From the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature -- perhaps our most beloved author -- a new selection of her peerless short fiction, gathered from the collections of the last two decades, a companion volume to Selected Stories (1968-1994). By all accounts, no Nobel Prize in recent years has garnered the enthusiastic reception that Alice Munro's has, and in its wake, he...(展开全部)