Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifie...(展开全部)

Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for 15 years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father she has submerged herself in the routine of her dead-end job and her unrequited love for her boss. But when Amy, frustrated by her quiet and unemotional mother, embarks on an illicit affair with her maths teacher, the disgrace intensifie...(展开全部)

伊丽莎白·斯特劳特，美国当代著名作家。1956年生于美国缅因州的波特兰市，大学毕业后开始文学创作，作品散见于《纽约客》等重要文学杂志。1998年，出版长篇处女作《十六岁的夏天》（Amy and Isabelle）, 先后荣获《洛杉矶时报》首作奖及《芝加哥论坛报》中心文学奖，并入选橘子奖决选名单和美国笔会/福克纳奖提名。2006年出版《与我同在》（Abide with Me），登上全美畅销榜，入选美国独立书商协会选书。2008年出版第三部作品《奥丽芙·基特里奇》（Olive Kitteridge），次年获得普利策小说奖。其新作品为2013年出版的《伯吉斯家的男孩们》（The Burgess Boys）。

伊丽莎白·斯特劳特，美国当代著名作家。1956年生于美国缅因州的波特兰市，大学毕业后开始文学创作，作品散见于《纽约客》等重要文学杂志。1998年，出版长篇处女作《十六岁的夏天》（Amy and Isabelle）, 先后荣获《洛杉矶时报》首作奖及《芝加哥论坛报》中心文学奖，并入选橘子奖决选名单和美国笔会/福克纳奖提名。2006年出版《与我同在》（Abide with Me），登上全美畅销榜，入选美国独立书商协会选书。2008年出版第三部作品《奥丽芙·基特里奇》（Olive Kitteridge），次年获得普利策小说奖。其新作品为2013年出版的《伯吉斯家的男孩们》（The Burgess Boys）。

"To understand your eating, you first have to understand yourself. This easily-read book helps you to step back and discover what influences your eating habits." Dr Ian Campbell - Founder of the National Obesity Forum and medical consultant on ITV's The Biggest Loser and Fat Chance "This valuable book makes sense of how food and eating may be misused and become entangled with e...(展开全部)

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitc...(展开全部)

特蕾西•里斯（Tracy Rees） 从剑桥大学毕业后，一直住在威尔士。特蕾西在非虚构类小说出版领域有过八年的职业生涯，之后她决定做一名全职作家。 在理查德•梅德利和朱迪•芬尼根举办的首届面向全国作者的“寻找畅销书”竞赛中，43岁的特蕾西•里斯凭借首部作品《雪中的印记》击败了成千上万个雄心勃勃的挑战者。赢得了50000英镑的图书出版协议。 “理查德&朱迪”这档下午脱口秀节目的火暴程度甚至超出了出版界，而成为街谈巷议的“理查德&朱迪现象”。 布鲁斯伯瑞出版社的资深出版人凯蒂•邦德对理查德和朱迪推荐的书目的含金量毫不怀疑。她说：“除了布克奖之外，他们的风头已经盖过了所有的文学奖。” 所以作为首届“寻找畅销书”大赛的桂冠作品，《雪中的印记》的含金量自然是不言而喻的。

From “one of the best kept secrets of Mexican literature” (Fernanda Melchor), a feverish novel about loving and leaving. Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by her teenage brother’s death. Plagued by memories of the little boy she helped raise in Mexico while their mother struggled to make a living in Spain, she recounts the events that led to this mom...(展开全部)

National Bestseller In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle , Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleepin...(展开全部)

National Bestseller In her stunning first novel, Amy and Isabelle , Elizabeth Strout evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother—and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's sexual secrets. In most ways, Isabelle and Amy are like any mother and her 16-year-old daughter, a fierce mix of love and loathing exchanged in their every glance. And eating, sleepin...(展开全部)