Bob Slocum is a promising executive and society demands that he should be happy. But his wife is a drunken flirt and his daughter wages her own cunning campaign against him. Slocum's soliloquy moves to a shocking climax as fate hands him a tragic focus for his despair.

Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened. "Something Happened" is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controve...(展开全部)

FROM THE AUTHOR OF CATCH-22, SOON TO BE A TV SERIES ON CHANNEL 4 Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did for the madness of war 'Joseph Heller's finest achievement' Jonathan Coe Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistress...(展开全部)

胜利的喜悦...失败的痛苦。《设计灾难》抓住了成功的另一面，即洞察力，安慰和失败的行为力量。这并不是指所有的失败。而是特指设计失败。特别是哪些公众的，丢脸的设计。那些真正伟大的设计师是怎样把这些设计灾难变成成功的设计的呢？阅读此书，你就能了解作为顶级设计师的心酸，极其可笑的精力，他们反过的错，他们如何从经验错误中发展壮大起来。这些错误包括：自欺欺人、承诺过多，拖延、错过了最后期限，愤怒的客户，是的，这些错误他们都犯过。阅读《设计灾难》可以让你收到鼓舞，让你发现摆脱颓势的希望。 The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. Design Disasters captures the flip side of success, bringing insight, solace, and energy to the ...(展开全部)

胜利的喜悦...失败的痛苦。《设计灾难》抓住了成功的另一面，即洞察力，安慰和失败的行为力量。这并不是指所有的失败。而是特指设计失败。特别是哪些公众的，丢脸的设计。那些真正伟大的设计师是怎样把这些设计灾难变成成功的设计的呢？阅读此书，你就能了解作为顶级设计师的心酸，极其可笑的精力，他们反过的错，他们如何从经验错误中发展壮大起来。这些错误包括：自欺欺人、承诺过多，拖延、错过了最后期限，愤怒的客户，是的，这些错误他们都犯过。阅读《设计灾难》可以让你收到鼓舞，让你发现摆脱颓势的希望。 The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. Design Disasters captures the flip side of success, bringing insight, solace, and energy to the ...(展开全部)

In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Christopher Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasure...(展开全部)

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life: the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a...(展开全部)