The story of Ben is fiction, but it could be the story of more than one jazz musician who grew up in the twenties. Using the art-deco style of the period, Rachel Isadora not only captures the poignancy and yearning of a youthful talent, but in page after page of striking art seems to convey the very sound of music.

【作者】 莉奥诺拉·卡林顿（Leonora Carrington，1917—2011），墨西哥艺术家、作家，超现实主义运动的重要代表人物。1917年，卡林顿出生于一个富裕的英国家庭，少女时代先后被两所修道院学校开除；1937年，与超现实主义艺术家马克斯·恩斯特私奔，成为巴黎艺术圈的宠儿；1940年，恩斯特遭纳粹逮捕，卡林顿精神濒临崩溃，被送往精神病院；从医院逃走后，卡林顿辗转去了美国和墨西哥，继续从事艺术创作，直至去世。 【译者】 付裕，南京大学英美文学硕士。译有《伍迪·艾伦谈话录》（合译）《约瑟夫·康拉德传》等。

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who made her home in Mexico City, was also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm, and The Hearing Trumpet is perhaps her best loved book. It tells the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that her family has been plotting to h...(展开全部)

The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the unde...(展开全部)

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are ...(展开全部)

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

<CENTER> Swan Song</P></CENTER> Like the rest of his family, Louis is a trumpeter swan. But unlike his four brothers and sisters, Louis can't trumpet joyfully. In fact, he can't even make a sound. And since he can't trumpet his love, the beautiful swan Serena pays absolutely no attention to him.</P> Louis tries everything he can think of to win Serena's affection -- he even ...(展开全部)

少年侦探白羽矢御空，与同父异母的妹妹回到了母国，遇到了侦探少女前泽光希，以及侦研部的朋友们......

因为母亲离奇失踪和爸爸妹妹去世而搬去了奶奶家的実奈美，因为升学关系而居住在高枫市，终于在假期里能回去奶奶家，北木山。但是因为她的到来，而令传说延续......

Callout: My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don't care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that p...(展开全部)