Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the past decade Colm Tóibín has garnered international fame for his fiction, reporting, and travel writing. Now, in his new novel, The Story of Night, he breaks new emotional ground with the story of a gay man coming of age in Argentina during the Falklands War. Tóibín weds his two themes--the ongoing Argentinean struggle toward democracy and the...(展开全部)

比尔·布龙（Bill Broun） 美国作家、记者，他的作品多次出现在《纽约时报》、《时代》杂志（伦敦）、《华盛顿邮报》和《泰晤士报文学增刊》等报刊杂志，以及诸如《建筑师期刊》和《出版人周刊》等专业刊物中。2002年，他被任命为耶鲁大学常驻研究员，教授小说创作、高级写作和新闻学。目前，比尔·布龙就职于东斯特劳斯堡大学，任英语系副教授。 《夜袭动物园》是比尔·布龙耗时14年构思完成的处女作小说，布龙渴望通过此次书写为现实找到一种寄托和希望。

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair--such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of "The End of the Story "as she attempts to organize her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit, and what appears to be candor, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, ...(展开全部)

While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of "Naked Lunch" is the first of the trilogy with "The Places of the Dead Roads" and his final novel, "The Western Plains."

From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel—based on actual events—about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. T...(展开全部)

From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, an achingly profound love story between a young man on the cusp of adulthood and a woman whose life is gradually moving in the opposite direction. Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories...(展开全部)

埃克托尔・比安西奥蒂,法兰西学院院士。1930年出生于阿根廷，1961年到巴黎，开始从事文学创作。比安西奥蒂一九七七年获美第奇外国语作品奖，一九八三年获最佳外国语书籍奖，一九八五年获菲米纳奖（又译为女性奖，因评委全部是女性），一九九三年获摩纳哥亲王奖，一九九四年获法国语言奖，一九九七年被选为法兰西学院院士。

In his major new work, Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globe-trotter – brings to life the world and voyages of HMS Erebus, from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke, to the part it played in Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839–43, to its abandonment during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition, and to its final rediscovery ...(展开全部)

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio. Lenore's great-grandmother has di...(展开全部)