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Thomas Wolfe's "The Lost Boy" is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. "The Lost Boy" also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the cen...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Wolfe，1900—1938），美国小说家，与海明威、菲茨杰拉德齐名（他们是传奇编辑珀金斯职业生涯中最重要的三位作家），《天使，望故乡》和《时间与河流》是其代表作。沃尔夫以抒情诗般的文风和自传体式的笔法闻名，福克纳称其为同辈中最具天分的作家，其影响广及“垮掉的一代”，甚至菲利普·罗斯和雷·布莱伯利等当代名家。 - 译者简介 - 陈婉容，曾任英文教科书编辑，现为自由译者，译有《世界就是这样结束的》等书。

The award-winning author of modern classics such as Schindler’s List and Napoleon’s Last Island is at his triumphant best with this “engrossing and transporting” (Financial Times) novel about the adventures of Charles Dickens’s son in the Australian Outback during the 1860s. Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England’s most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let hi...(展开全部)

Thomas Wolfe's "The Lost Boy" is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. "The Lost Boy" also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the cen...(展开全部)

- 作者简介 - 托马斯·沃尔夫（Thomas Wolfe，1900—1938），美国小说家，与海明威、菲茨杰拉德齐名（他们是传奇编辑珀金斯职业生涯中最重要的三位作家），《天使，望故乡》和《时间与河流》是其代表作。沃尔夫以抒情诗般的文风和自传体式的笔法闻名，福克纳称其为同辈中最具天分的作家，其影响广及“垮掉的一代”，甚至菲利普·罗斯和雷·布莱伯利等当代名家。 - 译者简介 - 陈婉容，曾任英文教科书编辑，现为自由译者，译有《世界就是这样结束的》等书。

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.

Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient and blithely living off his father's novelty song royalties. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children and he's increasin...(展开全部)

If the fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women (who would not ordinarily look twice at Will) were willing to date him, then Will had it made. Inventing a son got him into a single parents support group, but rather than a fabulous new sex life, he found someone else's very real son -- a twelve-year-old with a lot to teach Will about being a grown up.