From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

Left adrift in arctic waters with a gunshot wound to the head, adrift in arctic waters, Christy White was rescued from an icy death by a mysterious man. She craved retribution, and he taught her how to get it--how to make sense of her past and how to kill. They tried to freeze her out, but they should have finished the job, because now she's back with a vengeance! Collecting th...(展开全部)

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斯蒂芬·温伯格 诺贝尔物理学奖得主，曾获美国国家科学奖章、刘易斯•托马斯奖等多项殊荣。曾任得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校教授，并兼任美国国家科学院院士、伦敦皇家学会外籍会员、美国哲学学会会员等。 温伯格出版了多部影响力很大的理论物理教材。在专业领域之外，他致力于将科学理念与人文知识相结合，著有《最初三分钟》《终极理论之梦》《仰望苍穹》等书。

Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast confessing that she is a murderer—and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumors surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family, and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detect...(展开全部)

《第三个女郎》讲述了三个年轻女郎在伦敦城内合租一套公寓。第一个是冷静而能干的私人秘书；第二个在艺术圈里混事。第三个女郎在早餐时出现了，当赫尔克里•波洛享用着奶油蛋卷和巧克力时，她冲进来告诉他，自己是个杀人凶手——转而又消失不见了。 波洛后来一步步探悉围绕这神秘的第三个女郎的种种传闻——她的家庭内幕，以及她的失踪，等等。然而，在伟大的侦探宣布这第三个女郎是否有罪，抑或是否精神错乱之前，他需要提供强有力的证据。 A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone...Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third ...(展开全部)

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