"Reading (this book) is a wonderful way to contemplate the personal journey of life. (It's) a book one can return to often for that kind of affirmation that is so comforting to me, namely that although we definitely leave a unique stamp with the life we create, there is a greater order and symbolic journey that we all share. Understanding Saturn has been a life long quest for m...(展开全部)

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Lost in the Funhouse is a collection of loosely connected short stories that was originally published by John Barth in 1968. These postmodern stories examine the art of fiction writing, among other things, and seem to undermine the conventional and predictable nature of fiction. In the fourteen stories, Barth presents a literary "funhouse," a dense maze that weaves in and out o...(展开全部)

Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.

In the wake of family collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions – personal, moral, artistic, practical – as she endeavours to construct a new reality for herself and her children. In the city she is made to confront aspects of living she has, until now, avoided, and to consider questions of vuln...(展开全部)

亚当·明特（Adam Minter）,出生于美国明尼苏达州一个废品经销商家庭，2002年开始进行一系列关于中国新兴的废品回收业的开创性调查报告，受到国际传媒界的认可，2004年获得斯蒂芬·巴尔写作奖。从那时起，美国国家公共广播电台、《华尔街日报》以及英国《金融时报》《卫报》等国际媒体经常邀请他采访和撰稿。2008年他受邀到伦敦皇家地理学会做了对全球废品回收贸易的评论性演讲。目前，他受雇于全球最大的财经资讯公司彭博社。