麦克班恩一九二六年十月十五日出生在纽约市，他的父亲是一位邮局的员工。他的本名是萨尔瓦托雷•隆比诺（Salvatore Lombino）。隆比诺自第二次世界大战服役海军期间开始写作，之后以极优异的成绩毕业于亨特学院（Hunter College），并在那里担任教职。 在五十年的作家生涯里，他以亨特或麦克班恩之名写了许多畅销的小说、短篇作品、剧本和电影脚本（包括担任希区科克的名作《鸟》的编剧）。一九五六年，他以《恨警察的人》（Cop Hater）一书开始了八十七分局系列小说，将警察小说带入了一个全新、更加写实的新领域。故事背景是一个虚构的城市艾索拉（Isola，其蓝本为麦克班恩熟悉的纽约市），而本书亦为日后的大都市警察小说定下了一个模式：充满罪恶的大都市、多重故事发展、曲折的剧情、激烈的动作场景、贫民区的暴力描写、有计划的团队合作、写实的法医程序、以及外...(展开全部)

a rhetorically powerful argument about how the myths and ideals of femininity are harmful.

Written by Kim Kiyosaki - -the wife of bestselling author Robert Kiyosaki - RICH WOMAN is for women who insist on being financially independent – without depending on a man, family, company, or government to take care of them. In her book, Kiyosaki applies the same moneymaking strategies that have made RICH DAD POOR DAD one of the great publishing success stories of all time –...(展开全部)

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gl...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

伯娜丁•埃瓦里斯托（Bernardine Evaristo） 1959年出生于英国伦敦，母亲是英格兰人，父亲来自尼日利亚。青年时曾立志成为专业演员，但后来因对表演日渐生厌，转行写作。2019年，凭借小说《女孩，女人，其他》——她的第八部文学出版物——摘得布克奖，成为该奖 历史上第一位黑人女作家得主。她致力于书写英国非裔族群的移民史和身份认同问题，体裁涵盖小说、诗歌、散文、戏剧和文学评论等。除了作家身份，她同时也是伦敦布鲁内尔大学创意写作专业的教授，并自2022年起担任具有两百年悠久历史的英国皇家文学学会会长。 埃瓦里斯托是一位创造历史的女作家，在英国，她已经成为家喻户晓的偶像级人物。她是： •史上第一位获得布克奖的英国黑人作家 •史上第一位获得布克奖的黑人女性作家 •史上第一位成为英国皇家文学学会会长的有色人 •史上第二位成为英国皇家文学学会会长的女...(展开全部)

Duration: 11:06:51 From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brex...(展开全部)

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly contemporary, this is a gl...(展开全部)