Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel―a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.

半是黑色、半是迷幻的玩笑，百分百的品钦 私家侦探多克透过烟雾观看一个时代的终结 - ★ “最神秘的美国作家”后现代主义大师托马斯·品钦代表作 ★ 关于六十年代美国迷幻岁月的隐秘怀念和变形解读 ★ 改编的同名电影获第87届奥斯卡金像奖最佳改编剧本提名、第86届美国国家评论协会奖最佳改编剧本 -------- 洛杉矶私家侦探多克上次见到他的前女友莎斯塔似乎已经是很久以前的事了。倏忽间，她出现在他眼前，带来一个无从佐证的故事，一桩离奇绑架案，受害者——她现在的情人——是一个“腰缠亿贯”的房地产商。多克明知道“爱情”是个含混不清、随时会惹出一串麻烦的词儿，还是鬼使神差地撞进了莎斯塔的故事，而且愈卷愈深，江湖各色人在眼前时隐时现，其中包括冲浪手、皮条客、贩毒者、摇滚乐手、犯了命案的高利贷者等。 简单地沿着情节或者类型小说的思路（尽管《性本恶》确实有一个类似钱德勒侦探小说的外壳）来分析当今世界最神秘的后现代小说家托马斯•品钦的作品，显然是不够的；然而，对这本特殊的小说，如果仅仅做冷冰冰的技术分析，也未必就是正途。事实上，阅读《性本恶》，虽然你看到的仍旧是“百科全书式”的炫目风景，但你无需准备登山鞋；它可能更像是暮年品钦的一次私人化写作，充满了一个老人对六十年代洛杉矶那个曼哈顿海滩的乡愁记忆——不仅仅因为他是一个亲历者，更因为他隐秘地怀念着那些嬉皮青年们的天真浪漫和革命理想。他们并不只是为了享受片刻致幻的颓废高潮，他们背靠着一套完整的哲学、宗教体系，伍德斯托克音乐节是他们的弥撒，分享和友爱是他们对抗自私与贪婪的商业社会的信条。 -------- “《性本恶》是品钦写过的最好玩的书。它囊括了所有亦庄亦谐的元素，正是这些使得他成为美国独特的伟大声音。这本书从一开始就燃烧着道德的暴怒——他对美利坚和那些游荡在这里的弃民怀有一种无以复加的强烈悲悯。” ——《滚石》杂志 “一本伟大的美国图书。它是对加州黑色小说绝佳的仿作，从始到终都令人捧腹（但很难在家庭报纸上引用这些笑话，因为它们用的常常都是五彩缤纷的口头语）。它对六十年代最后的喧哗进行了辛辣的再现，而那个时代的一切很快就将不复留存，湮没在记忆和传说里。” ——《华盛顿邮报》 “品钦的口语化文字非常随性，带着厚重的美国风韵，以至于你会忘记它是刻意编造出来的。《性本恶》读起来感觉是那么的不事雕琢，就像是在语言的即兴重复段周围安排了一系列的爵士独奏、场景和谈话。” ——《新闻周刊》

From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east―and of the tour itself Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway―a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists with its manufactured dreams of the exotic Orient. And like many a lost soul on this same route, he ended up in the harrowing forests of Papua, searching for a people who have never seen a tourist. What, Osborne asks, are millions of affluent itinerants looking for in these endless resorts, hotels, cosmetic-surgery packages, spas, spiritual retreats, sex clubs, and "back to nature" trips? What does tourism, the world's single largest business, have to sell? A travelogue into that heart of darkness known as the Western mind, The Naked Tourist is the most mordant and ambitious work to date from the author of The Accidental Connoisseur, praised by The New York Times Book Review as "smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible."

一本驚爆華府內幕權謀的鬥智小說。 「500」是一份機密名單， 他們是華府最有權勢的人，控制他們就能控制全世界！ 揭露當今最有權勢的政治競技場核心內幕 二十世紀福斯影片重金搶下電影版權 麥克．福特從痛苦經驗中學到爬得越高摔得越重──甚至可能摔死。 一年前，剛從哈佛法學院畢業的麥克．福特在華府最有權勢的「戴維斯集團」顧問公司找到了他的夢幻工作，宛如天之驕子。如今，他只能孤伶伶地盯著手裡的槍管，躲避兩個全世界最危險的人的追殺。 麥克從小便隨父親詐騙街頭，學會各種技巧。他在大學跟法學院辛苦爭來的成功是擺脫寒微出身的門票。身為戴維斯集團的明日之星，他跟真正掌管華府及全世界的菁英男女往來，這群人即所謂的機密「500」，他們是全華府最有影響力的人，控制他們便能權傾世界。戴維斯集團專門利誘威嚇權貴，影響重大決策或判決。涉及這500人的委託案件，每樁交易起價至少1500萬美金。 就在竄升之際，麥克卻搞砸了一宗委託案。來自塞爾維亞的土梟雷多為干擾引渡法案，重金委託戴維斯集團出手，接二連三的意外，竟引發雷多之女艾琳被殺，麥克不但是現場唯一目擊證人，並得知亨利．戴維斯最不欲人知的重要把柄，因而引來各路追殺。 麥克很快學到，即使血統高貴，騙子終究是騙子。為了脫身，他必須故技重施去做一切他以為這輩子永遠不必再做的事：說謊、詐騙、偷竊──這次，或許還得殺人。 這原來就是一場貓捉老鼠的遊戲，但最後勝負絕對出乎意料。 主要人物簡介 麥克．福特：哈佛法學院 / 甘迺迪學院雙修高材生。父兄皆從事詐騙偷竊。積欠高額債務。被延攬進戴維斯集團，進行了魔鬼交易而獲得良好生活。 亨利．戴維斯：策略顧問公司「戴維斯集團」經營者，握有華府最高權力者500人之隱私，具影響時局的能力。曾是政治密探，手段骯髒。 威廉．馬可士：麥克．福特的直屬上司。前中情局幹員，亨利的左右手。 雷多米爾．德拉戈維奇：簡稱雷多，綽號紅心王。塞爾維亞人。遊走法律邊緣的生意人（人口販子 / 戰爭屠夫）。為避免引渡而引發連串事端。 艾琳．德拉戈維奇：雷多之女。接近馬侃．哈斯金法官，試圖拯救父親，因此賠上性命。 馬侃．哈斯金：最高法院大法官，立場中立響。掌握亨利．戴維斯的犯罪證據，惹來殺身之禍。 安妮．克拉克：戴維斯集團資深執業律師，藍眼黑鬈髮，出身耶魯，家境富裕。麥克．福特的女友，父親為賴利爵士（勞倫斯．克拉克）。

美國作家沙林傑，因叛逆的成長小說《麥田捕手》（1951年）享譽世界文壇，之後，仍有新作發表與出版，但已添加東方禪學思想。本書九篇故事是五十年前的作品，儘管各自獨立，卻有一種隱約的聯繫；二次大戰雖然已經結束，但是人性所受到的傷害才開始慢慢顯現。這九篇也可以說是《麥田捕手》的延續，童稚的純真心靈繼續與成年人的虛偽世界展開拉鋸戰，作者認為童稚的純真心靈既是受害者，也是最後的勝利者，為成年人帶來救贖的希望。

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worry--Seymour hasn't lost control. Mention of a book he sent her from Germany and several references to his psychiatrist lead the reader to believe that World War II has undone him.The war hangs over these wry stories of loss and occasionally unsuppressed rage. Salinger's children are fragile, odd, hypersmart, whereas his grownups (even the materially content) seem beaten down by circumstances--some neurasthenic, others (often female) deeply unsympathetic. The greatest piece in this disturbing book may be "The Laughing Man," which starts out as a man's recollection of the pleasures of storytelling and ends with the intersection between adult need and childish innocence. The narrator remembers how, at nine, he and his fellow Comanches would be picked up each afternoon by the Chief--a Staten Island law student paid to keep them busy. At the end of each day, the Chief winds them down with the saga of a hideously deformed, gentle, world-class criminal. With his stalwart companions, which include "a glib timber wolf" and "a lovable dwarf," the Laughing Man regularly crosses the Paris-China border in order to avoid capture by "the internationally famous detective" Marcel Dufarge and his daughter, "an exquisite girl, though something of a transvestite." The masked hero's luck comes to an end on the same day that things go awry between the Chief and his girlfriend, hardly a coincidence. "A few minutes later, when I stepped out of the Chief's bus, the first thing I chanced to see was a piece of red tissue paper flapping in the wind against the base of a lamppost. It looked like someone's poppy-petal mask. I arrived home with my teeth chattering uncontrollably and was told to go straight to bed."

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia—through the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.

More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time.

The iconic anthology series of horror tales is now a feature film! This paperback edition features cover artwork from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark motion picture. Stephen Gammell’s artwork from the original Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark appears in all its spooky glory in the book's interior. Read if you dare! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a timeless collection of chillingly scary tales and legends, in which folklorist Alvin Schwartz offers up some of the most alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events of all time. And don't miss More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Scary Stories 3!

Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas, Gulf and Lost Legacy, and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human. Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human. Gulf: in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein's later New York Times best seller, Friday. Lost Legacy: in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman–or would be, if we but had eyes to see. Plus a double dose of great short stories, with two of the master's finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a man. The second story, "Jerry Was a Man," was adapted for the TV series Masters of Science Fiction, and is now available on DVD.

Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. . . . Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect. To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen’s finest achievement to date.

荷兰画家温森特·梵高是19世纪人类最杰出的艺术家之一。他热爱生活，但在生活中屡遭挫折，艰辛备尝。他献身艺术，大胆创新，在广泛学习前辈画家伦勃朗等人的基础上，吸收印象派画家在色彩方面的经验，并受到东方艺术，特别是日本版画的影响，形成了自己独特的艺术风格，创作出许多洋溢着生活激情、富于人道主义精神的作品，表现了他心中的苦闷、哀伤、同情和希望，至今饮誉世界。 被誉为传记小说之父的美国现代作家欧文·斯通，在梵高还默默无闻的时候便写出了这部文学传记，时年仅26岁。60余年来，梵高的身世打动了无数读者，其魅力至今犹在。这部作品也便成了作家的成名之作，并被译成80余种文字，发行数千万册。

is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.

一場原本歡欣鼓舞的「回到非洲運動」集會瞬間陷入一片愁雲慘霧，由八十七個黑人家庭的血汗錢聚積而成的八萬七千元也化為烏有。「回到非洲運動」主持人，也就是化身德克．歐馬立牧師的前科犯德克．歐哈拉並不知道那些白人搶匪的來路，還以為是黑社會組織派出的殺手，可是當他看到他們只是來搶錢的時候，才晃然大悟，原來自己被黑吃黑了。 哈林管區兩名黑人王牌探長「棺材」艾德與「挖墳手」瓊斯受命偵辦此案，不意竟陷入一場棉花追逐戰；同時，「回到南方運動」的卡倫上校也現身哈林街頭，意圖引發一場種族暴動。 就在這片八方人馬群集的混亂之中，棺材艾德與挖墳手瓊斯要如何追出真兇？如何為這些黑人家庭討回公道？且讓我們跟著兩位探長抽絲剝繭，一步步深入探索哈林區──這個充斥色情與暴力的血腥叢……

向「密室大師」卡爾致敬的推理名作 並列密室推理佳作選的十大好書之一 修女沒瘋狂，只是愛破案， 推理史上首見的修女偵探！ 沃爾夫是一位專門揭發宗教詐騙的作家，洛杉磯光明之殿的教主哈斯佛在聚會時卻對他下了「九九神咒」，咒他不出數日內身亡。沒想到咒語竟然成了真，沃爾夫果然離奇在自家書房中遭到近距離槍傷死亡，房間的門窗全都緊閉，儼然是一樁離奇的密室命案。沃爾夫的助理麥特和刑事組副隊長馬歇爾展開抽絲剝繭的調查，甚至還參考約翰．狄克遜．卡爾密室名作《三口棺材》，正當案情陷入膠著時，烏秀拉修女卻帶來一線曙光，難解的謎團終於逐步得以解開…… 傾聽我們的呼救， 讓我們免受這個邪惡之人的迫害。 噢，九聖九徒！徹底消滅他！ 大家都提高音量跟我對著九聖九徒呼喊：「消滅他！」 安東尼．鮑查受推理圈人士愛戴尊敬的原因是他從不恃才驕人，相反地，在評論活動中，他更像是一位不斷發掘新人、鼓勵新人、大處著眼、包容多元的寫作導師。在真實生活?，他也曾在他家鄉的母校加州柏克萊大學?開設推理小說寫作班的課程，有名的科幻推理小說家隆納德．高拉特就是鮑查的入門弟子……安東尼．鮑查在科幻小說與推理小說的創作上也都有經典的位置，他以H. H. Holmes的筆名寫的兩部推理長篇，就是其中的代表作。這兩部小說，都啟用了烏秀拉修女為主角，《九九神咒》是一部向約翰．狄克遜．卡爾致敬的「密室推理小說」（在第十四章對密室的討論，在歷史上和卡爾《三口棺材》?菲爾博士的『密室演講』相互輝映）；而另一部《火箭來到停屍間》，是產生科幻推理小說的雛型。另外一提，我從前誤把Boucher譯成布克，後來發現作者別有所本，他自己說此字與voucher同韻，可見要唸鮑查，那是歷史上一個古老家族的姓氏；而他的筆名H. H. Holmes，和老神探福爾摩斯一點親戚關係也沒有，那是十九世紀一個惡名昭彰的系列謀殺案的兇手名字。鮑查的淵博學問與愛掉書袋，有時候真是考倒狀元呢。

紐約私家偵探比爾．柯倫又出馬辦案了，這次的犯罪場景是在佛羅里達州邁阿密附近的拉爾哥礁島。炙熱的朝陽，一望無際的海灘，衣不蔽體的比基尼女郎，好一個令人蠢蠢欲動的渡假聖地；然而，捲進這場風暴的有嗜酒狂的老牌女演員、初入社交界的女孩、艷麗四射的波霸女郎、留連於風月場所的富家公子、過氣的中量級拳擊手，以及異國味十足的馬雅舞者。一開始，案情本來只是單純的匿名勒索信，誰知狀況一發不可收拾，在一連串的「不可能犯罪」中，比爾．柯倫居然都是現場見證人。面對這麼多棘手的局面，他能和死者一樣無動於衷嗎？……。

外科醫師在趕赴雷諾市動緊急手術的前夕，收到了一封指明時間的死亡恐嚇信。 紐約市警察署的特派警官麥可‧羅德，二十八歲，聰明機警、家世富裕，是少女夢想中的白馬王子，他啣命全程護衛醫師。然而，在萬無一失的預防措施和貼身保護之下，醫師卻依然離奇地死亡了。在這場警匪鬥智當中，機上乘客個個有嫌疑，人人沒把握。誓死緝兇的羅德探長能否突破迷障、抽絲剝繭，順利逮捕兇手歸案？身為心理學家的作者佈局縝密，對人心幽微處的描繪絲絲入扣，書中還特別設計了詳盡的行蹤調查表，讓讀者和作者鬥智，看看誰能搶先一步找出真兇。