The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer--a minister's son--hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

在线阅读本书 THE HOUSE OF SIXTY FATHERS Tien Pao is all alone in enemy territoy. Only a few days before, his family had escaped from the Japanese army, fleeing downriver by boat. Then came the terrible rainstorm. Tien Pao was fast asleep in the little sampan when the boat broke loose from its moorings and drifted right back to the Japanese soldiers. With only his lucky pig for com...(展开全部)

"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling...(展开全部)

作者简介： 卡森•麦卡勒斯，20世纪美国最重要的作家之一。1917年2月19日生于美国佐治亚州，29岁后瘫痪。著有《心是孤独的猎手》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《金色眼睛的映像》《没有指针的钟》等小说作品。1967年9月29日麦卡勒斯在纽约州去世，时年50岁。 译者简介： 文泽尔，出生于武汉，长居于欧洲。《城市画报》《上海壹周》特邀专栏作家。闲暇之时读书、藏书、写书、译书。已出版小说著作、译作十余种。

The richest, most fulfilling love of your life is yet to come! "The Authentic Heart offers practical, wise, and compassionate guidance for midlife love."--Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry "The Authentic Heart is a groundbreaking, insightful, warmly written book that I highly recommend to anyone wanting more loving, joyful relation...(展开全部)

作者简介： 卡森•麦卡勒斯，20世纪美国最重要的作家之一。1917年2月19日生于美国佐治亚州，29岁后瘫痪。著有《心是孤独的猎手》《伤心咖啡馆之歌》《金色眼睛的映像》《没有指针的钟》等小说作品。1967年9月29日麦卡勒斯在纽约州去世，时年50岁。 译者简介： 文泽尔，出生于武汉，长居于欧洲。《城市画报》《上海壹周》特邀专栏作家。闲暇之时读书、藏书、写书、译书。已出版小说著作、译作十余种。

"The Mortgaged Heart" is an important collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide invaluable insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. The collection also contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her best-selling...(展开全部)

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale―a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness―proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of an...(展开全部)