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In the blaze of a Carolina summer, among the poison ivy and loblolly pines, eight Marines are killed almost casually by misfired mortar shells. Deciding that his batallion has been doping off, C...全文
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Back Cover: John Barth is: &...全文
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Back Cover: Exciting, important, a great American novel. John Barth emerged as one of the most exciting and promising ...全文
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Salmon Rusdie is the author of seven novels: Grimus, Midnights Children (which was awarded the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Prize), Shame (winner of the French Prix du Meillear Livre Et...全文
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No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and...全文
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Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story...全文
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13岁的布里奥妮·塔利斯拥有十分丰富的想象力,颇有作家天分;管家的锤子罗比在塔利斯先生的奖助下已经与布里奥妮的姐姐塞西莉娅一道从剑桥大学毕业,而且他俩情/投意合。一个炎热夏日,塞西莉娅当着罗比的面,脱去衣服,跳进池塘戏水。这一切都被布里奥妮尽收眼底,恰逢当晚,来塔利斯家小住的布里奥妮的表姐遭人强暴;布里奥妮武断地认定罗比即是罪犯,并出庭做证指控罗比,罗比因此被捕入狱。但坚信他无罪的塞西...全文
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Like Cormac McCarthys previous Border Trilogy, No Country For Old Men is set in the West Texas/Mexico border area. Sheriff Bell, an old-time honest, small-town sheriff, finds the shot-up corpses...全文
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Synopsis:Im thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when youre seventy-five. Philip Roths new novel is a fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoici...全文
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OneLatitudes and Departures1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22TwoAmerica 26 27 28...全文
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Pynchons first novel since the formidable Gravitys Rainbow (1973) more closely resembles his earlier work, especially The Crying of Lot 49 (1966). (In fact Mucho Maas, the ex-husband of Lot 49 s...全文
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Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 and attended Cornell University, where he published his first story, Mortality and Mercy in Vienna, in Epoch. Soon after leaving Cornell, he published...全文
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托马斯·品钦(thomas Pynchon,1937—)是“黑色幽默”的后起之秀,大学期间曾师从纳博科夫。他的作品往往以神秘的荒诞文学与当代科学的交叉结合而形成特色。《万有引力之虹》(1973) 是品钦的代表作,获1974 年的“全国图书奖”。这篇小说在长达八百多页的篇幅中,充满了五花八门、古怪零乱的叙述以及物理学、导弹工程学、高等数学、心理学、变态性爱的许多描写。小说的背景是第二次世...全文
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Oedipa Maas, the protagonist of this Thomas Pynchon novel, lives in a world full of haphazard clues, dead ends, and meaningless signifiers. She stumbles through a bizarre string of coincidences ...全文
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Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, intellectual, and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among ...全文
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“9·11”事件以来,美国人风声鹤唳,一直生活在恐怖袭击的阴影下,人人都惟恐避之不及。可偏偏有人顶风作案,美国文坛大师约翰·厄普代克用新作《恐怖分子》再次触动了美国人这根已经脆弱无比的神经。 小说故事发生地是美国新泽西州一个虚构的工业城镇。主人公艾哈迈德的母亲是一名爱尔兰裔美国人,父亲是一名来自埃及的国际交换学生,将艾哈迈德母子抛弃。艾哈...全文
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STANDING amid the tan, excited post-Christmas crowd at the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Rabbit Angstrom has a funny sudden feeling that what he has come to meet, whats floating in unseen ...全文
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Rabbit Remembered is a novella sequel to the four John Updike Rabbit novels, all of which focus on their central character Harry Angstrom. In Rabbit Remembered, several old strands at last come ...全文
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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.This third novel in Updikes Rabbit series finds Harry Rabbit Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age with...全文
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《兔子归来》以1960年代这个特殊时期为背景,描写了与越南战争、种族冲突、女权运动、性革命、反文化运动等社会事件和现象相关的各个方面.作者通过把镜头聚焦在主人公兔子哈里身上以及对其家庭矛盾的细致入微的叙述,使读者清晰地感受到那个特殊年代的种种社会问题并由此导出的自我认同危机.同时,这本小说也是厄普代克作品中政治意味最为强烈的小说之一.从某种意义上说,这和作者本人的政治立场,尤其是作为...全文