On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove―to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife―“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward fo...(展开全部)

“All men become brothers . . . Be embraced, ye millions!” The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to squelch populist rumblings in t...(展开全部)

约书亚•弗里斯 美国畅销作家，1974年出生于伊利诺伊州，在加利福利亚大学欧文分校获得艺术硕士学位。其处女《曲终人散》使作者一举成名，并入围美国国家图书奖。弗里斯的第二部小说《当爱远行》被《经济学人》的图书编辑称为“过去十年来读过最好的新小说”。本书是作者的第三部长篇小说，在布克奖开始纳入美国小说的第一年，本书便进入了布克奖短名单。 吴文忠 北京航空航天大学外语学院英语教授，翻译系副主任。九三学社党员。主要方向英美文学、英语语言教学及英汉、汉英翻译实践，先后在辽宁大学外语学院和北京航空航天大学外语学院任教。主要讲授美国当代小说课、英汉及汉英翻译实践、口译等课程。译有《倒带人生》《血色花瓣》等书。

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle! “Unlike anything I’ve ever read. ” ―V.E. Schwab “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” ―Charles Stross “Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” ―The N...(展开全部)

Published in 1967 and then extensively revised in 1978, The Ninth Configuration is a fascinating look at madness, philosophy, and the nature of religious belief. Both The Ninth Configuration and Twinkle, Twinkle 'Killer' Kane have been out of print for decades, but this new edition combines both novels with a long essay by Mark Kermode.

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction ...(展开全部)

The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno ...(展开全部)

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.