约翰·多斯·帕索斯（John Dos Passos）（1896－1970），出生于美国芝加哥，当代最著名作家之一。他于1916年毕业于哈佛大学，之后加入美国红十字会救护队，参与一战。退役之后，帕索斯开始为多家报刊写作。他的处女作《一个人的开始》出版于1920年。之后共出版40多本书。 他的书聚焦于政治和社会问题，多从左翼立场出发。他忠实地记录了二十世纪美国阶级的苦难与富人阶级的颓废。随着政治观点趋向保守，他开始在作品中更多地反映美国文化。 人们公认帕索斯最重要的作品是他的《美国》三部曲。他的其他作品诸如《三个士兵》、《曼哈顿中转站》以及《哥伦比亚区》也为人所熟知。

在线阅读本书 A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels.

约翰·多斯·帕索斯（John Dos Passos）（1896－1970），出生于美国芝加哥，当代最著名作家之一。他于1916年毕业于哈佛大学，之后加入美国红十字会救护队，参与一战。退役之后，帕索斯开始为多家报刊写作。他的处女作《一个人的开始》出版于1920年。之后共出版40多本书。 他的书聚焦于政治和社会问题，多从左翼立场出发。他忠实地记录了二十世纪美国阶级的苦难与富人阶级的颓废。随着政治观点趋向保守，他开始在作品中更多地反映美国文化。 人们公认帕索斯最重要的作品是他的《美国》三部曲。他的其他作品诸如《三个士兵》、《曼哈顿中转站》以及《哥伦比亚区》也为人所熟知。

在线阅读本书 A portrait of New York City, drawn by describing the interconnected lives of dozens of people - bankers, chefs, bums, cabdrivers and others. Written in an impressionistic style, with vivid descriptions and bursts of overheard conversation, it has more in common with films than traditional novels.

出版社/著者からの内容紹介 ある日突然すべての建物が崩れ、多くの人間が死に、地上は真っ 白な砂漠に変わった。そして生き残った少数の人間たちには、過酷な現実が待っ ていた...。地下にいたせいで助かった亮介と幼馴染みのしのぶは、食料もな く、飢餓状態に陥りながら死を待つように生きていた。「亮ちゃんが一緒ならい い」と言うしのぶに、死にたくない亮介は苛立つが...。

Madras plaid, Top-Siders, seersucker shorts, highwater trousers, tweed jackets, Brooks Brothers, J. Press, and J. Crew. What comes to mind? Described by The New York Times as, “a treasure of fashion insiders,” Take Ivy was originally published in Japan in 1965, setting off an explosion of American-influenced “Ivy Style” fashion among students in the trendy Ginza shopping distri...(展开全部)

Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a b...(展开全部)

Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles the lives of characters struggling...(展开全部)