A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inhe...(展开全部)

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheri...(展开全部)

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheri...(展开全部)

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised as one of the most gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inhe...(展开全部)

在《時時刻刻》中，作者麥可·康寧漢，極具創意地以維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生平與作品為背景，描述一群在愛與傳承、期望與絕望的衝突中掙扎的當代人物的故事。這本小說以回溯吳爾芙在一九四一年自殺的最後的日子開場，隨後發展至兩個現代美國婦女的故事，她們罔顧自己朋友、愛人、及家人的要求，試圖爭取自己的天空。 克勞麗莎是個住在紐約格林威治村的出版社編輯；我們見到她時，她正要為她朋友理察舉辦宴會而出門買花；理察是個纏綿病榻的詩人，剛榮獲一項重要的文學獎。蘿拉·布朗是二次大戰後住在加州的家庭主婦，她撫養她的獨子並在她窒悶的婚姻之外尋求生活的真諦。康寧漢藉著罕見的輕鬆與自信的筆觸，使這兩個女人的生活與維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生活以一種出人意表並令心碎的方式，在替理察舉辦宴會期間融為一體。隨著小說在二十世紀各年代間跳躍，每一行都與康寧漢清晰、鏗鏘有力、熱情奔放的當代之聲起共鳴。作品熱...(展开全部)

在《時時刻刻》中，作者麥可·康寧漢，極具創意地以維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生平與作品為背景，描述一群在愛與傳承、期望與絕望的衝突中掙扎的當代人物的故事。這本小說以回溯吳爾芙在一九四一年自殺的最後的日子開場，隨後發展至兩個現代美國婦女的故事，她們罔顧自己朋友、愛人、及家人的要求，試圖爭取自己的天空。 克勞麗莎是個住在紐約格林威治村的出版社編輯；我們見到她時，她正要為她朋友理察舉辦宴會而出門買花；理察是個纏綿病榻的詩人，剛榮獲一項重要的文學獎。蘿拉·布朗是二次大戰後住在加州的家庭主婦，她撫養她的獨子並在她窒悶的婚姻之外尋求生活的真諦。康寧漢藉著罕見的輕鬆與自信的筆觸，使這兩個女人的生活與維吉尼亞·吳爾芙的生活以一種出人意表並令心碎的方式，在替理察舉辦宴會期間融為一體。隨著小說在二十世紀各年代間跳躍，每一行都與康寧漢清晰、鏗鏘有力、熱情奔放的當代之聲起共鳴。作品熱...(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

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its reviews have generally recognized its excellence and it was named a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel fits the expectations of a number of different novel genres: immigrant, mystery, political, ...(展开全部)

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality--the black Chinese restaurant. Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens-...(展开全部)