Grushin's stunning debut drew praise that placed her in the top rank of young literary voices. Now she returns with that rarity: a second novel even more dazzling than her first. The line: the universal symbol of scarcity and bureauA-cracy that exists wherever petty officials are let loose to abuse their powers. The line begins to form on the whispered rumor that a famous exi...(展开全部)

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

凯芮•妮•道欷缇生于北爱尔兰的德里，当时是北爱问题的高峰期，她在一幢斑驳破旧的老房子里长大，房子处在城镇最混乱的地带。但对她和其他许多家庭而言，那里并没有什么平静的地带。她父母中的一方是天主教徒，另一方则是新教徒。在一年中他们两次被赶出家门，而在她11岁的时候一枚自制的汽油炸弹从她卧室的窗口被扔了进来。恐怖主义者充斥着城市的每一个角落，而对像凯芮家这样身处那身份裂缝中的家庭而言，更是无处可逃。 在《稀薄之地》这部揉合回忆录、历史及自然的作品中，凯芮将带读者探索大自然是如何让她保持神智清晰、帮助她从伤痛中痊愈，我们也可以在她的故事里看见兼具暴力与贫穷、希望与美的环境中，也能看见有时人们试图建立并稳住自己的城墙，却又允许恐惧和暴力在里头再次肆虐。凯芮让我们通过语言和学习重新构建了我们所生活其中的图景，并让我们记住我们不断斗争的土地不仅仅是地图上的线条和住...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

Witemeyer Returns with Her Trademark Blend of Adventure, Romance, and HumorGrace Mallory is tired of running, of hiding. But when an old friend sends an after-hours telegraph transmission warning Grac

Since March 2000, photographer Joel Sternfeld has been documenting the abandoned elevated railway, the High Line, which runs down the West Side of Manhattan. Sometimes a river of grass, sometimes more like wheat fields of Canada, this unique ruin permits contemplation of nature, and of cityscape. Walking the path of this true time landscape, experiencing the seasons as they unf...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions and ambitions. As the boom years of the eighties unfold, Nick, an innocent i...(展开全部)

It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolized Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend ...(展开全部)

英国当代名作家阿兰·霍林赫斯特(1954-)，生于英格兰一个中产阶级家庭。自幼喜欢歌剧和建筑艺术。1981年，从牛津大学毕业后来到伦敦；1985年，成为《时代文学增刊》的编辑。1988年以长篇处女作《泳池图书馆》一举成名。第二部长篇，1994年出版的《折叠的星星》进入当年布克奖最后候选名单，并获布莱克纪念奖。这两部小说和分别于1998、2004年出版的《咒语》和《美丽曲线》都是同性恋题材。《美丽曲线》获2004年度布克奖，这是布克奖设立36年来第一次颁发给关于同性恋的小说。 本书讲述牛津大学毕业生尼克，从外向来到伦敦四年的生活经历。他住在伦敦一个保守主义议员的家里，先和牙买加裔公务员利奥相恋并发生了关系，后来又迷上了吸食可卡因上瘾的年轻的黎巴嫩裔百万富翁万尼，成为了他的情人、门客和合作者。在万尼罹患艾滋病、丑闻见诸报端之后，尼克遭遇房东的驱逐。小说...(展开全部)