波姬·小丝（Brooke Christa Shields）， 美国 著名 女演员 和 模特 ，1965年生于 纽约 城，拥有 意大利 、 法国 、 爱尔兰 和 英国 的贵族血统，其祖母是意大利公主Donna Marina Torlonia。小丝出生11个月就为香皂拍过广告，14岁就成为Vogue杂志封面年轻的时装模特；更是用家喻户晓的广告成就了Calvin Klein品牌牛仔装。13岁就在1978年的影片《漂亮宝贝》(Pretty Baby)中扮演一个童妓；1980年的《青春珊瑚岛/蓝色泻湖》(Blue Lagoon)中，出演因海上事故流落荒岛逐渐长大成为少年的两个孩子中的女孩，青春靓丽脱俗的形象让年仅15岁的波姬·小丝红极一时。
One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, oneof the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, stillsurprises and moves us after all these years. Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov??ered themusic of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a centurylater, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an eminentAmerican historian as well as the passion of a fan. Drawn in partfrom Wilentz’s essays as “historian in residence” of Dylan’sofficial website, Bob Dylan in America is a unique blend of fact,interpretation, and affinity—a book that, much like its subject,shifts gears and changes shape as the occasion warrants. Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, this bookfollows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical andliterary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approachplaces Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including theearly influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, andoffers a larger critica
An astonishing and at times outright comic memoir that marksthe brilliant debut of a writer raised in a creative, bohemianhousehold characterized by extreme privilege tinged withneglect. Born into one of the most celebrated Anglo-Irish families, theGuinnesses, Ivana Lowell tells a stunning story of coming to termswith her blue-blood heritage and her own childhood traumas. It isalso the story of her intense relationship with her formidablyintelligent and complicated mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood.A keen observer with an incisive eye, a wicked sense of humor, andno self-pity, Lowell sets a wide range of scenes with a trulyunexpected, almost madcap cast of characters, introducing us tosuch eccentric figures as her maternal grandmother, Maureen, theMarchioness of Dufferin and Ava. She takes us from themarchioness’s annual ball for her idol and old friend, the QueenMother, to Maureen’s stately Irish home, Clandeboye (where themarchioness hopes to die), to summers in Dufferin’s villa inSar
