埃拉·伯绍德 Ella Berthoud，五岁时从德黑兰去往伦敦，旅途中靠在一辆Wolsey 1300的包裹架上开始阅读生涯。此后十三年间在各种不合时宜的地方读过书，比如在滑雪缆车和蹦床上。进入剑桥大学就读英国文学专业之后，她更是全身心地投入到了小说阅读中。 苏珊·埃尔德金 Susan Elderkin，2003年被《格兰塔》(Granta) 评选为二十位最杰出的年轻英国小说家之一。现从事小说写作，著有《日落巧克力山脉》(入围柑橘奖决选名单)，以及《声音》(入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单)，同时教授写作、撰写书评。 两位作者二十五年前同为剑桥大学英文系同学，上学时她们便给彼此推荐各类小说，并相互交换，结下了深厚的友谊，同时积累了大量的阅读。两人在阿兰·德波顿开办的“人生学校”负责书目治疗，为全世界客户开书目处方，经过五年“临床治疗”的累积，才有...(展开全部)

埃拉·伯绍德 Ella Berthoud，五岁时从德黑兰去往伦敦，旅途中靠在一辆Wolsey 1300的包裹架上开始阅读生涯。此后十三年间在各种不合时宜的地方读过书，比如在滑雪缆车和蹦床上。进入剑桥大学就读英国文学专业之后，她更是全身心地投入到了小说阅读中。 苏珊·埃尔德金 Susan Elderkin，2003年被《格兰塔》(Granta) 评选为二十位最杰出的年轻英国小说家之一。现从事小说写作，著有《日落巧克力山脉》(入围柑橘奖决选名单)，以及《声音》(入围国际IMPAC都柏林文学奖长名单)，同时教授写作、撰写书评。 两位作者二十五年前同为剑桥大学英文系同学，上学时她们便给彼此推荐各类小说，并相互交换，结下了深厚的友谊，同时积累了大量的阅读。两人在阿兰·德波顿开办的“人生学校”负责书目治疗，为全世界客户开书目处方，经过五年“临床治疗”的累积，才有...(展开全部)

From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning. At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished ...(展开全部)

From novelist and master psychotherapist Irvin Yalom, author of Lying on the Couch and When Nietzsche Wept, comes the world's first accurate group-therapy novel, a mesmerizing story of two men's search for meaning. At one time or another, all of us have wondered what we'd do in the face of death. Suddenly confronted with his own mortality after a routine checkup, distinguished ...(展开全部)

GARTH GREENWELL is the author of Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow in fiction.

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual pred...(展开全部)

查尔斯·格雷伯（Charles Graeber） 美国医学领域资深记者、作家。他为《纽约时报》《卫报》《连线》《纽约客》等众多刊物撰稿，获得海外记者俱乐部国际新闻杰出奖、纽约记者俱乐部奖等。

查尔斯·格雷伯（Charles Graeber） 美国医学领域资深记者、作家。他为《纽约时报》《卫报》《连线》《纽约客》等众多刊物撰稿，获得海外记者俱乐部国际新闻杰出奖、纽约记者俱乐部奖等。

This remarkable book is an account of a year of new life for the author, following a severe bout of depression. Mabey, author of the groundbreaking bestseller, Flora Britannica, finds his niche not in passive submission to nature, but in an active, sensual re-engagement.

The most controversial thriller ever written about health-care reform in America. "Riveting...filled with action." ( San Diego Union-Tribune) "A hair-raising, cautionary tale." ( Detroit News )