Highly acclaimed for The End of Eddy, Edouard Louis in Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French—at the minimum—of negligent homicide. “Racism,” he quotes Ruth Gilmore, “is the exposure of certain groups to premature death.” And Louis goes to visit the ugly gray town of his child...(展开全部)

To get the solution you either had to send in for it after the contest was over or pruchase the paperback version on the novel. I purchased the paperback. In fact it took me several years to find the solution to the 2nd novel Revenge of the Robins Family. Yes, the paperback version of that novel also contains the solution. However, the publishers of the paperback for Revenge de...(展开全部)

To get the solution you either had to send in for it after the contest was over or pruchase the paperback version on the novel. I purchased the paperback. In fact it took me several years to find the solution to the 2nd novel Revenge of the Robins Family. Yes, the paperback version of that novel also contains the solution. However, the publishers of the paperback for Revenge de...(展开全部)

"The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" is a detective story which explains that bunnies think with their noses: for a single idea a bunny might "scrunch up his nose fifteen thousand times" (he may not be too bright, but "he's not foolish at all when it comes to making babies"). The third tale, "Almost True," is a shaggy dog yarn narrated by a pooch who is very worried about a wic...(展开全部)

克莉斯蒂娜•斯台德（Christina Stead） 澳大利亚著名作家，1902年出生于澳洲，大部分时间旅居欧洲。作品的背景多设定在英、美等欧洲各国。1983年过世。她被推崇为二十世纪最重要的小说家之一，公认为澳大利亚最伟大的作家，著有十五本小说和大量短篇小说。曾获得帕特里克•怀特文学奖，并多次获诺贝尔奖提名。 《爱孩子的男人》是克莉斯蒂娜•斯台德最重要的代表作，本书带有自传色彩，某种程度上影射了现实生活中她与父亲紧绷的关系。淋漓尽致的描绘了一个有史以来最不堪入目的一个家庭，家庭成员之间的困难、挣扎，以及亲密和矛盾。

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Four years have passed since the Demon Lord was defeated. The kingdom, now at peace, has undertaken the task of compiling the many great deeds of the fallen Hero, interviewing the members of his former party: Leon the Sword Saint, Maria the Holy Maiden, and Solon the Sage. Yet, reading between the lines of their epic tale about the Hero’s past and their adventures together, the...(展开全部)

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, of the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Lo...(展开全部)

威廉姆•高德曼，美国著名编剧，曾获得过第49届奥斯卡金像奖最佳改编剧本 （《总统班底》）和第42届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本 （《虎豹小霸王》）。

威廉姆•高德曼，美国著名编剧，曾获得过第49届奥斯卡金像奖最佳改编剧本 （《总统班底》）和第42届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本 （《虎豹小霸王》）。