Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect wit...(展开全部)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Winner PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Best Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle T...(展开全部)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER National Book Critics Circle Award Winner PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Best Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, The Daily Beast, The Miami Herald, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Newsday, NPR's On Point, O, the Oprah Magazine, People, Publishers Weekly, Salon, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle T...(展开全部)

Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect wit...(展开全部)

伊恩‧歐佛頓 Iain Overton 畢業於劍橋大學唐寧學院，在倫敦的慈善機構「對武裝暴力採取行動」(Action on Armed Violence)擔任主席，並於劍橋大學擔任客座講師，同時也是調查記者兼戰地記者，於全世界超過八十國工作，在柬埔寨、伊拉克和索馬利亞等殺戮地區報導新聞。他也以製片的身分，為BBC、ITN和Al Jazeera等導演紀錄片，並且和《衛報》(the Guardian)、《獨立報》(the Independent)、《周日時報》(Sunday Times)等合作。他的報導曾榮獲皮博迪獎(Peabody Award)，兩度獲得國際特赦組織獎(Amnesty Award)以及一座英國電影和電視藝術學院蘇格蘭獎(BAFTA Scotland)。他成立調查新聞報導局(Bureau of Investigative Journali...(展开全部)

■作者簡介 中村文則 中村文則 Nakamura Fuminori 本名軸見文則，1977年生於日本愛知縣，2000年從福島大學應用社會學系畢業後開始全心投入創作。2002年，以《槍》一書獲得新潮社新人賞受賞，也是他已作家身分開始活躍的開端，這本處女作同時也入圍了第128回的芥川賞。2004年，以《遮光》一書獲得野間文藝新人賞、第129回的芥川賞入圍作品；2005年，以《泥土裡的孩子》終獲芥川賞，當時中村文則28歲，被譽為「純文學界最受期待的新人」；在2010年，中村自認、同時也被大多書評家認為是代表作的《掏摸》獲得第4回大江健三郎賞，獲得大江賞對中村來說意義非凡，因為他曾公開地多次表示「大江健三郎是我最尊敬的人」。 中村的作品定位於追求純文學深度，同時以易讀的文體和豐富的故事性表現，「希望今後能寫出前所未見的、同時表現娛樂性和文學性的小說」。寫作風...(展开全部)

查尔斯·惠伦（Charles Wheelan） 于1997—2002年间担任《经济学人》杂志驻美国中西部地区的记者，还为《芝加哥部报》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》撰稿，现任芝加哥公共电台 WBEZ 节目财经记者。

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason - from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details to get at th...(展开全部)

查尔斯·惠伦（Charles Wheelan） 于1997—2002年间担任《经济学人》杂志驻美国中西部地区的记者，还为《芝加哥部报》《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》撰稿，现任芝加哥公共电台 WBEZ 节目财经记者。

The field of statistics is rapidly transforming into a discipline that Hal Varian at Google has called "sexy". And with good reason - from batting averages and political polls to game shows and medical research - the real-world application of statistics is growing by leaps and bounds. In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan strips away the arcane and technical details to get at th...(展开全部)