In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and women.

This powerful collection of stories, set in the Northwest among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK. With its spare, colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate, the collection went on to become one of the most influential pieces of literary...(展开全部)

Some people used to think that Earth was smack-dab in the middle of the universe, with all the stars and planets held in the sky by giant glass balls. "Boy, were they wrong " In this follow-up to the award-winning "Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs ," Kathleen Kudlinski and John Rocco look at the mistakes, mishaps, and creativity that are part of scientific discovery. From the...(展开全部)

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)

"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, "Beginners" - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reve...(展开全部)

Here is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . . ., which portray the gritty loves and lives of the American working class,...(展开全部)

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)