Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The stories in “Fresh Complaint” explore equally rich―and intriguing―territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s searc...(展开全部)

Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The stories in “Fresh Complaint” explore equally rich―and intriguing―territory. Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s searc...(展开全部)

This portrait by two noted Soviet authors and dissidents of Nikita Khrushchev's years in power reveals the former leader of the Soviet Union as a decisive, even impetuous, innovator, a side of him little known before in the West. Khrushchev emerges as a man impatient to destroy Stalinism, to remedy defects in the Soviet system, and to solve the problems of Soviet agriculture. A...(展开全部)

rTlHIS bookdespite its modest lengthis the reһ<br > suit of an extended though intermittent effort<br > begun in 1 963It was then that KhrushchevS headstrong and<br > illplanned agricultural ventures brought on a grave economic<br > crisis and forced the Soviet Union to purchase grain from out<br > side its borders for the first time in its history orindeedin the<br > e...(展开全部)