杰丝米妮·瓦德（Jesmyn Ward，1977- ），黑人女作家，密歇根大学艺术硕士，现任杜兰大学创意写作副教授。著有小说《哪里疼痛》（Where the Line Bleeds）及《拾骨》（Salvage the Bones），后者荣获2011年美国国家图书奖。非虚构作品包括为《纽约时报》编辑的畅销文集《这一次烈火》（The Fire This Time）及回忆录《我们收获的男人》（Men We Reaped）。2017年荣获麦克阿瑟天才奖，同年凭借第三部小说《唱吧！未安葬的魂灵》（Sing, Unburied, Sing）二度摘得美国国家图书奖，成为历史上第一位两次获得该奖项的女性。2018年获选《时代》百大影响人物。目前与家人居住于密西西比州。 孙麟，大学讲师，中国美国史研究会会员。从事美国非裔文学与文化的教学和研究。

In late imperial China, death did not always lead swiftly to burial. Across the Qing empire, coffins frequently remained in temple courtyards, storage houses, or shallow pits for months, years, even decades. These unburied bodies unsettled the social order: they were neither gone nor fully incorporated into ancestral lines, inhabiting a liminal space between presence and absenc...(展开全部)

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a jour...(展开全部)

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a jour...(展开全部)

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Si...(展开全部)

Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies-television...(展开全部)

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out ...(展开全部)

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The Dice Man is a semi-comedic[citation needed] novel published in 1971 by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart and tells the story of a psychiatrist who begins making life decisions based on the casting of dice. Cockcroft wrote the book based on his own experiences of using dice to make decisions while studying psychology.[1] The novel is noted for its subversivi...(展开全部)

Plot summary The book tells the story of a psychiatrist named Luke Rhinehart who, feeling bored and unfulfilled in life, starts making decisions about what to do based on a roll of a die. Along the way, there is sex, rape, murder, "dice parties", breakouts by psychiatric patients, and various corporate and governmental machines being put into a spin. There is also a description...(展开全部)