Rugby League football in an industrial northern city is a life of grime, mud, sweat and intrigue. The story follows the fortunes of the hero Arthur Machin, from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he first feels age creeping up on him.

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

托拜厄斯·沃尔夫：1945年生，蜚声美国的短篇小说家，回忆录创作大师，“美国短篇小说复兴运动”力将，美国斯坦福大学人文学科教授。曾获欧·亨利奖、福克纳笔会奖等重要奖项。2014年，获俄勒冈州立大学颁发的斯通文学终身成就奖。

This unforgettable memoir of boyhood in the 1950s, a true modern classic, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling. Separated by the divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the moves. As he fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experience...(展开全部)

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

十九世纪英国自然文学大师理查德·杰弗里斯，拥有最纯粹的自然的心灵，血管里流淌着着橡树、榆树和白蜡树的树液，以及自然界飞禽走兽的血液。杰弗里斯一生创作有小说散文十余部，他笔下的乡村是他精神的领地，灵魂的净土，他的全部生命都在于体验和描述自然，他的成就对后世的自然文学创作影响深远。

With an Introduction by Henry Williamson. 'Marvellous pictures of country sights in England. A volume to be read and re-read, and each time we think with a keener interest. Unsurpassed in power of observation and sympathy with natural objects by anything that has appeared since the days of Gilbert White' Daily News

Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling  Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method  of writing that can take you beyond craft to the  true source of creative power: The mind that is  "raw, full of energy, alive and  hungry." Here is compassionate, practical, and often  humorous advice about how to find time to write,  how to discover your personal style, how to make  sent...(展开全部)