博比•安•梅森（Bobbie Ann Mason），1940年5月1日出生于肯塔基州，是美国当代著名的小说家、文学批评家。她与四个兄弟姐妹一起在肯塔基梅菲尔德城外的一个奶牛农场长大，高中毕业后进入肯塔基大学学习英语文学。然后来到纽约，先后在几家电影杂志供职撰写文章。1966年她在纽约州立大学获得硕士学位，1972年于康涅狄格大学取得文学博士学位。 梅森在近四十岁时才开始小说创作。她的第一篇作品1980年发表在《纽约客》，此后便在1982年出版了第一本小说集《夏伊洛公园》。1985年出版的长篇《在乡村》（In Country）被改编为同名电影。 梅森的写作推动了美国80年代“地方小说”的复兴，并开创了一种全新的、被评论家称为“超市现实主义”的风格。她在1983年凭《夏伊洛公园》获得美国笔会海明威奖，同年获得美国艺术基金奖（NEA），2000年凭回忆录《...(展开全部)

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam comes home to Sam Hughes, whose father was killed there before she was born: The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him depeno 1- ble, But he seemed so innocent. "Astronauts have been to the moon," she blurted out to the picture. "You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade" She...(展开全部)

If you could do it all over again, would you? Should you? One man finds out in this finely observed, compulsively readable, and occasionally raunchy novel of marriage, sex, and dating for readers of Jonathan Franzen, Lauren Groff, and Tom Perrotta. Recently separated Toby Fleischman is suddenly, somehow—and at age forty-one, short as ever—surrounded by women who want him: women...(展开全部)

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the kids, some residual bitterness, the occasional moment of tension in their co-parenting negotiations. He could not have predicted that one day, in the middle of his summer of sexual emancipation, Rachel would just drop their two children...(展开全部)

David doesn't mean to get in trouble. It's not his fault most of the time, it's just an accident! or maybe he forgot something. Or some furniture got in the way. Once again, David Shannon proves he knows every excuse in the book-especially when faced with the age-old problem of dealing with grown-ups.

"When David gets in trouble, he always says . . . 'NO! It's not my fault! I didn't mean to! It was an accident!'" Whatever the situation, David's got a good excuse. And no matter what he's done "wrong," it's never really his fault. Soon, though, David realizes that making excuses makes him feel bad, and saying he's sorry makes him feel better. Once again, David Shannon entertai...(展开全部)

大卫·香农(David Shannon) 1959年生于华盛顿，获帕萨迪纳艺术中心设计学院的美术艺术学位，擅长运用油画技法创作绘本，他的作品画面饱满、色彩浓郁，焕发出勃勃的生机。主要作品有《大卫，不可以》《大卫上学去》《大卫惹麻烦》《大卫，圣诞节到啦！》《小仙女艾丽斯》 等，曾获得凯迪克大奖、《纽约时报》年度绘本、美国图书馆协会好书奖等多项大奖。

"When David gets in trouble, he always says . . . 'NO! It's not my fault! I didn't mean to! It was an accident!'" Whatever the situation, David's got a good excuse. And no matter what he's done "wrong," it's never really his fault. Soon, though, David realizes that making excuses makes him feel bad, and saying he's sorry makes him feel better. Once again, David Shannon entertai...(展开全部)

大卫·香农(David Shannon) 1959年生于华盛顿，获帕萨迪纳艺术中心设计学院的美术艺术学位，擅长运用油画技法创作绘本，他的作品画面饱满、色彩浓郁，焕发出勃勃的生机。主要作品有《大卫，不可以》《大卫上学去》《大卫惹麻烦》《大卫，圣诞节到啦！》《小仙女艾丽斯》 等，曾获得凯迪克大奖、《纽约时报》年度绘本、美国图书馆协会好书奖等多项大奖。

David doesn't mean to get in trouble. It's not his fault most of the time, it's just an accident! or maybe he forgot something. Or some furniture got in the way. Once again, David Shannon proves he knows every excuse in the book-especially when faced with the age-old problem of dealing with grown-ups.