The curious and horrid events which took place after the cruise ship Menelaos headed out into the sapphire waters of the Aegean grew from "human motives darker and more complex than the dwelling of the Minotaur", but Nigel Strangeways had no inkling that he was to be drawn into this labyrinth as he watched some of the passengers come aboard at Piraeus: The disturbing widow Meli...(展开全部)

简介：历经三年，身为Beta的祝禛襕已经在外闯出了一片天地。他乘上了回家的飞机，却想起了曾经不美好的回忆。那回忆曾折磨得他身心俱疲......层层迷雾，好似浮现在他眼前，却难以释怀。似乎，事情没有那么简单……我或许也是个错误。财大气粗渣男总裁阮晏岭X纯情百折不挠总裁祝禛襕

More than three decades have passed since the events described in The Witches of Eastwick and the three divorcees – Alexandra, Jane and Sukie – have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world to exotic lands such as Canada, China and Egypt and renew old acquaintances. And then, one summer, they decide to ...(展开全部)

约翰•厄普代克的新作《东威克的遗孀们》，是其25年前的小说《东威克的巫婆们》的续篇，讲述的是三十年后"今天"的故事。如今年华已逝、婚姻不幸、又都丧夫不久的三位女主角，决定再次回到东威克，共同享受一段夏日时光。斗转星移，物事人非。当初令她们爱恨交织的神秘人，戴瑞•范•霍恩已经死了。她们的丈夫与情人们，也已经与她们阴阳相隔。曾经青春曼妙的身体，早已随着失败的婚姻和无情的复仇不复存在，取而代之的是病痛的折磨与年老体衰。然而，三个女人之间的关系依然微妙而敏感，神奇的魔力依然弥漫在东威克的空气当中。很快她们就发现，这里仍有人对她们曾经的"罪行"耿耿于怀，并且正等着看她们"恶有恶报"。 《东威克的遗孀们》延续了上一部《东威克的巫婆们》当中的整蛊风格与魔幻色彩，并进而再造出一种新的情感愿景。书中对于青春的流逝进行了敏锐的探究，用讽刺的视角观察当代美国生活，是...(展开全部)

More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick . The three divorcées—Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie—have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old acquaintance. Why not, Sukie and Jane ...(展开全部)

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many dee...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt...(展开全部)

In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to reconsider our ideas of ownership and debt...(展开全部)

The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost...(展开全部)