First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O'Conner's work. In it, the orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousins, the schoolteacher Rayber, defy the prophecy of their dead uncle--that Tarwater will become ...(展开全部)

"I am sure her books will live on and on in American Literature" --Elizabeth Bishop "There is very little contemporary fiction which touches the level of Flannery O'Connor at her best." --Alan Pryce-Jones

作者簡介 凱薩琳‧艾登（Katherine Arden） 生於美國德州奧斯丁，曾在莫斯科短居兩年。她於明德學院主修法國和俄國文學，取得學士學位後搬到夏威夷茂宜島，做過各式各樣千奇百怪的工作，包括騎馬之旅導遊、國際旅客私人導遊、賣可麗餅和撰寫研究計畫等等。在島上生活一年後，飛到法國布里昂松一所高中教授英文一年。九個月後，重回茂宜島。目前她所有家當都收在一個箱子或旅行袋裡，生活則是結合了她最愛的兩件事：旅行和塗塗寫寫。現在住在佛州。 www.katherinearden.com 譯者簡介 穆卓芸 文字手工業者，譯有《焚城記》、《神秘森林》、《我想念我自己》、《企鵝的憂鬱》、《牠》等書。

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul...(展开全部)

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul...(展开全部)

Take Away the A is a fun, imaginative romp through the alphabet. The idea behind the book is that within every language there are words that change and become a different word through the simple subtraction of a single letter. In other words, without the "A," the Beast is Best. Or, without the "M," a chomp becomes a chop—though it could be that this particular play on words did...(展开全部)

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good t...(展开全部)

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good t...(展开全部)

The World and All That It Holds―in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory―showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. It cements Hemon as one of the boldest voices in fiction. As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto i...(展开全部)

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants and a girl’s journey home. In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches his dau...(展开全部)