Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also ...(展开全部)

Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also ...(展开全部)

From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction. Michael—a.k.a. “Butcher”—Boone is an ex–“really famous” painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, ...(展开全部)

彼得·凯里(Pete r carey)，1943年生于墨尔本市郊小镇，曾在大学学习化学，未及毕业改做广告设计，后游历欧洲并转向文学创作，现居住在纽约。 凯里是当代澳大利亚文学领军人物，作品已被翻译成二十多种文字。是世界惟一的两位二度荣获布克奖的作家之一，另一位则是南非的诺贝尔文学奖得主库切。因此有评论家预言，凯里将是诺贝尔文学奖最有力的竞争者。凯里的作品怪诞、幽默，具有寓言式小说和科幻小说的特征。 因书写《凯利帮真史》等历史题材的小说而被誉为澳大利亚“民族神话创造者”的凯里，是一位关注现代人生存困境、具有国际色彩的作家。

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and love...(展开全部)

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and lov...(展开全部)

Professor Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasive eurocentric or occidentalist biases of so much western historical writing. Goody also examines the consequent 'theft' by the West of the achievements of other cultures in the invention of (notably) democracy, capitalism, individualism, and lov...(展开全部)

彼得·凯里(Pete r carey)，1943年生于墨尔本市郊小镇，曾在大学学习化学，未及毕业改做广告设计，后游历欧洲并转向文学创作，现居住在纽约。 凯里是当代澳大利亚文学领军人物，作品已被翻译成二十多种文字。是世界惟一的两位二度荣获布克奖的作家之一，另一位则是南非的诺贝尔文学奖得主库切。因此有评论家预言，凯里将是诺贝尔文学奖最有力的竞争者。凯里的作品怪诞、幽默，具有寓言式小说和科幻小说的特征。 因书写《凯利帮真史》等历史题材的小说而被誉为澳大利亚“民族神话创造者”的凯里，是一位关注现代人生存困境、具有国际色彩的作家。

From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction. Michael—a.k.a. “Butcher”—Boone is an ex–“really famous” painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, ...(展开全部)

比尔•梅森（Bill Mason），美国有史以来最成功的珠宝大盗。表面上他是一个房地产经理人和投资商，并拥有一个正常的家庭，但他业余时间里的副业也发展得相当不错。目前他住在纽约市。 李•格伦菲尔德（Lee Gruenfeld），畅销书作家，出版过小说《正义大厅》（The Halls of Justice）、《同归于尽》（All Fall Down）。目前他住在加利福尼亚州的南部。