In these ten exquisite stories, first published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1987 and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West—and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there: a refugee from justice driving across Wyoming with his daughter and an unhappy girlfri...(展开全部)

In these ten stories， Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. Rock Springs is a masterpiece of taut narration， cleanly chiseled prose， and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace."Beautifully imagined and crafted stories， by turns heartrending a...(展开全部)

理查德•福特，美国当代重要作家。1944年出生于密西西比州杰克逊市。他在密歇根州立大学毕业后曾担任初中教师，后在华盛顿大学法学院读了一学期，即转学加州大学厄湾校区攻读创意写作硕士学位。福特有轻微的阅读障碍，但痴迷文学，创作了《体育记者》、《独立日》等五部长篇小说，《石泉城》、《多重罪恶》等三部短篇小说集。 理查德•福特曾为“美国文库”主编韦尔蒂作品选，为《格兰塔》杂志主编多部短篇小说选，在多所大学教授写作课程。 福特是美国艺术与文学院院士。曾获得普利策小说奖、美国笔会福克纳小说奖和马拉默德短篇小说奖、Rea短篇小说奖和法国文学艺术奖。作品已被翻译成近三十种文字。

克里斯．范．奥尔斯伯格 1949年生于美国密歇根州,自幼喜欢画画，长大后曾在密歇根大学及罗得岛设计学院学习雕塑，并获得了艺术硕士学位。毕业后，他成立了自己的雕刻工作坊，并开始创作绘画作品。他的画曾在惠特尼美术馆和近代美术馆展出。 奥尔斯伯格被称为美国最有才华的绘本大师之一。他善于用文字引导读者，也善于运用细腻的画面和变幻的光影，营造谜一样的超现实氛围。在他的书中，图像与文字相得益彰，共同烘托出亦真亦幻的气氛，带给读者无尽的遐想。他的作品《魔法师的奇幻花园》《勇敢者的游戏》及本书曾三次获得凯迪克大奖。

A boy's ambition to be the greatest sailor in the world brings him to ruin when he misuses his new ability to sail his boat in the air. "The full-color pastel drawings are the work of a master: stunning, luminescent, and conveying a sense of the mystical and magical." -- Publishers Weekly

Women over the age of 40, as they move towards menopause, usually experience an increasing waistline and multiplying fat cells!no matter how much they exercise. Hormonal changes start to affect your weight when your 30 billion fat cells detect a slightly lower oestrogen reading and come to your aid to produce oestrogen for you. And the fat cells in your waist grow the largest ...(展开全部)

A devastating collection of stories from one of the twentieth century’s finest writers. In the stories that compose this collection, Maeve Brennan writes about the daily lives of three Dublin families. Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment, rivalry, and hatred that teem beneath the surface of family life – always doing so, however, with an attention to detail that...(展开全部)

The twenty-one stories collected herethe very best stories of one of The New Yorker ’s most celebrated writerstrace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, loses all power of expression and then vanishes forever. The natural love of sister for brother and of mother for son is twisted into the rag...(展开全部)

克里斯．范．奥尔斯伯格 1949年生于美国密歇根州,自幼喜欢画画，长大后曾在密歇根大学及罗得岛设计学院学习雕塑，并获得了艺术硕士学位。毕业后，他成立了自己的雕刻工作坊，并开始创作绘画作品。他的画曾在惠特尼美术馆和近代美术馆展出。 奥尔斯伯格被称为美国最有才华的绘本大师之一。他善于用文字引导读者，也善于运用细腻的画面和变幻的光影，营造谜一样的超现实氛围。在他的书中，图像与文字相得益彰，共同烘托出亦真亦幻的气氛，带给读者无尽的遐想。他的作品《魔法师的奇幻花园》《勇敢者的游戏》及本书曾三次获得凯迪克大奖。