A novelist, polemicist, occasional politician, and perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize, Leonardo Sciascia died in 1989. He left behind a formidable array of books, all of which revolve around the hallucinatory realities of Sicilian life. But the stories collected in The Wine-Dark Sea may be the best introduction to his work. They offer a kind of capsule history of Sicily, ran...(展开全部)

祖恩·塞特纳（Dhun H. Sethna） 医学博士、执业心脏病专家和前心脏麻醉师，曾担任美国西达赛奈医学中心和克利夫兰诊所心脏外科ICU的医学主任。

祖恩·塞特纳（Dhun H. Sethna） 医学博士、执业心脏病专家和前心脏麻醉师，曾担任美国西达赛奈医学中心和克利夫兰诊所心脏外科ICU的医学主任。

THE WINE BIBLE is like a lively course from an expert teacher, grounded deeply in the fundamentals and enriched with passionate opinions, asides, tips, anecdotes, definitions, glossaries, illustrations, maps, photos, charts, and wine labels - everything, in fact, but the actual bottle of wine itself. Beginning with the basics of mastering wine - how to taste with focus and buil...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into ...(展开全部)

玛德琳•帕克特（Madeline Puckette） 侍酒师大师公会（CMS）认证侍酒师，曾在多家餐厅担任侍酒师，拥有丰富的葡萄酒理论知识与实践经验。她创办的WineFolly网站（葡萄酒评论家）荣获2013~2014年度葡萄酒博客奖，并与诸多全球顶尖葡萄酒品牌，以及侍酒师大师公会等机构建立合作。 2012年，玛德琳被Quora评为顶级葡萄酒作家；2015年，被著名葡萄酒杂志《葡萄酒爱好者》评为“40个40岁以下的葡萄酒潮流引领者”之一。 除了品酒、写作、设计葡萄酒评论家网站，玛德琳还喜欢开车、自行车运动、跑步和户外游泳。成为侍酒师之前，玛德琳是音乐制作人和歌手。 贾斯汀•海默克（Justin Hammack） 葡萄酒评论家网站创始人之一，负责概念开发、互动工具设计和品牌开拓。除此之外，他负责通过创意的方法，强调、传递红酒知识，并负责网站所有的视频制...(展开全部)

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experience...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 人類無法逃脫他必須承受的命運安排，Max Morden在生命中的十字路口，他必須把他混亂生活理出個頭緒，他罹患癌症的太太剛剛過世，他想逃離現實生活中面對的失落，卻回到當年受到創傷的所在。他回到的他還是小男孩時生活的海邊小鎮，他記得當時Grace家庭的雙胞胎Myles與Chloe。不過在Max Morden試著重新在此地展開新生活的同時，卻又陷入與雙胞胎的奇怪關係。John Banville以《The Sea》以一位年過五旬的中年男子的心態，討論懷鄉的渴望與對於記憶的冥思，討論人面對的死亡與記憶，Banville優美的文字與嚴謹的風格架構讓該書在傳媒界一致認為是文字藝術的臻品，《The Sea》入圍了今年的英國布克獎，可說是呼聲相當高的一部作品。 【94年11月好讀推薦】二○○五年布克獎得主 John Banville，儘管在初審時擊退伊恩．...(展开全部)