Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and d...(展开全部)

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrat...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(展开全部)

忠告：不要看书上的简介！！！ 重复：不要看书上的简介！！！ 再来：不要看书上的简介！！！ 最后：不要看书上的简介！！！ ------------------------------------ 16岁的少年弗兰克，从小和他的父亲同住在一个荒凉的小岛上。他个性孤僻、性情冷漠、迷恋暴力，喜欢残杀小动物，以此预测将要发生的事情。 从小，他的家庭就充满阴影――在他出生后不久，他的母亲就离家出走，他的父亲也没有为他办理出生证明。他的大哥一直痛恨他的父亲，一度离家出走，后因为试图纵火烧死一群狗而被关进精神病院。 ……然而，这一切又都是为了什么？ ------------------------------------ 小说中，伊恩・班克斯对人性及社会黑暗洞察入微――在一系列看似恐怖血腥的故事中隐藏着对人类命运的深度思考，以及对科技发展所带来的负面影响的深刻忧虑。...(展开全部)

Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive historical study, Guilt and Innocence in Hitler's Germany, finds himself writing a novel about his own life instead of the introduction ...(展开全部)

The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno ...(展开全部)

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls. “Alex drained her wineglass, then her water glass. The ocean looked calm, a black darker than the sky. A ripple of anxiety made her palms go damp. It seemed suddenly very tenuous to believe that anything would stay hidden, that she could successfully pass...(展开全部)

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

Leonard Marnham is assigned to a British-American surveillance team in Cold War Berlin. His intelligence work—tunneling under a Russian communications center to tap the phone lines to Moscow—offers him a welcome opportunity to begin shedding his own unwanted innocence, even if he is only a bit player in a grim international comedy of errors. Leonard's relationship with Maria Ec...(展开全部)

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...(展开全部)