The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

盖伊•特立斯（Gay Talese, 1932年2月7日— ），美国著名作家、记者，“新新闻主义”代表人物，曾任职《纽约时报》十年，长期为《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《时尚先生》（Esquire）等杂志撰稿。 特立斯的雄心是“将非虚构写作提升到前人未至之境，一探虚构作家之禁脔，与同侪菲利普•罗斯、厄普代克一较短长”，不仅将文学技巧引入纪实书写，更对美国社会作了切片般的精准分析。 他受《时尚先生》之邀采写的特稿《弗兰克•辛纳屈感冒了》是新新闻风格的代表性作品，被誉为“二十世纪最伟大的非虚构书写”、“有史以来最具影响力的美国杂志文章之一”、“《时尚先生》刊登过的最好文章”，并收录进“企鹅现代经典”。《王国与权力》位列“关于新闻业，五本最好的书”；《被仰望与被遗忘的》《邻人之妻》等作品也无愧时代经典。在他笔下，没有失败者、小人物、零余人，所...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)

Neighbors is a contemplative picture book about the lives of our neighbors―who are all around us and ever-present, yet somehow surprisingly elusive. They're everywhere: next door, above, and even below. More often than not, they are a mystery, a presence suggested by low hums, footfalls, or perhaps a slammed door. This book explores the ways that we think about those we exist a...(展开全部)

At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few bl...(展开全部)

At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San Francisco, Barbara met Pearl, another PTA president who also had two children and happened to live only a few bl...(展开全部)

CAN SHE ESCAPE THE PERSON SHE ONCE LOVED? Beth Murphy is on the run… For nearly a year, Beth has been plotting to leave her abusive husband. This is her one chance at freedom—one that requires a new look, new name and new city. Each part of her plan has to be carefully thought out, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. Sabine Hardison is missing… A coupl...(展开全部)

科蒂斯·希登弗尔德，因长篇小说处女作《奥尔特校园手记》（PREP）而声名鹊起的美国才女型作家，一九七六年出生，十六岁时在《十七岁》杂志举办的小说大赛中胜出。一九九八年，她在《密西西比评论》的年度小说比赛中获奖。他的作品曾发表在《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《沙龙》等报纸杂志上，还曾在公共电台“美国生活”栏目中播出。她是斯坦福大学的毕业生和爱荷华作家协会的成员，曾获得哥白尼社团的美国奖。《奥尔特校园手记》当选为《纽约时报》二00五年十佳图书之一，并入围英国的奥兰治奖。他的第二部长篇小说《致我的青蛙王子》。（The Man of my Drdam）也颇受好评。《美国夫人》（American Wife）是希登费尔德的第三部长篇小说，被《纽约时报》评选为二00九年值得关注的图书，同时被亚马逊网上书店、《芝加哥论坛报》、《娱乐》周刊、美国公共广播电台、《人物》...(展开全部)

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself rema...(展开全部)