One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique’s wife is in the midst ...(展开全部)

出生于纽约布鲁克林的威尔·艾斯纳（1917-2005）是世界殿堂级的漫画大师，他自 20 世纪 30 年代美国漫画产业开创以来就一直活跃在这个领域。他创作了《黑鹰》和《森林女王希娜》等作品。1940 年，他创作了漫画《闪灵侠》，这部漫画在《星期日报》连载了十二年，每期 16 页 ，其独特的视角及革新的手法使其创下了单周狂销 500 万份的记录。1978 年，艾斯纳创作了《与神的契约》，他大胆地用文学手法画漫画，开创了一种新的体裁：图像小说。自此，艾斯纳创作了近 20 部著名的图像小说，从而让他成为“图像小说之父”。 1988 年，美国漫画界深具影响力的奖项“艾斯纳奖”以他的名字命名。在他的创作生涯中，他获得了无数荣誉和重量级的奖项，包括由美国国家基金会颁发的犹太文化终身成就奖（2002），同时作为纽约视觉艺术学院的教师，他培养的许多学生也成为业界的中...(展开全部)

A revolutionary novel, "A Contract With God" re-creates the neighbourhood of Will Eisner's youth through a quartet of interwoven stories. Called "a masterpiece" by R. Crumb, "A Life Force" chronicles not only the Great Depression but also the rise of Nazism and the spread of socialist politics. In "Dropsie Avenue", Eisner traces the social trajectory of this mythic avenue over ...(展开全部)

Tommy Orange's shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death, has come to wor...(展开全部)

8 hours, 2 minutes Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven int...(展开全部)

"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see...(展开全部)

"We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see...(展开全部)

8 hours, 2 minutes Fierce, angry, funny, heartbreaking--Tommy Orange's first novel is a wondrous and shattering portrait of an America few of us have ever seen, and it introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. There There is a relentlessly paced multigenerational story about violence and recovery, memory and identity, and the beauty and despair woven int...(展开全部)