米歇尔·图尔尼埃(1924-)，法国当代文学大师，当代著名的新寓言派文学的主将。他不仅是才华横溢的小说家，而且是睿智深刻的哲学家。西方批评界对他的小说以及融汇在小说中的现代哲学思想推崇备至，评价极高，认为他以自己独特的风格为法国小说开创了新局面。《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是他的代表作之一，发表当年即获法兰西学院文学大奖。 《礼拜五或太平洋上的灵薄狱》是一篇“现代文明衰亡记”的寓言，它戏仿笛福的名著《鲁滨孙漂流记》的题材，在主题上却反其道而行之。鲁滨孙孤独一人被弃荒岛后，按西方文明社会的模式将荒岛治理得井井有条。礼拜五来到荒岛后，非但没有被驯化为鲁滨孙的奴隶，反而以其自然的天性将文明的迹象破坏得一干二净，同时也慢慢影响了鲁滨孙，使这个西方文明的代表逐步抛弃了原有的文化传统，变成了一个

At last A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildlypopular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of JuliaAlvarez's keen observations and tender affection for hercharacters.The Garcia Girls are back, most notably Yolanda, or"Yo", who has grown up to be a writer. In the process, she hasmanaged to get kicked out of college, break more than a few hearts,have her own heart broken many times, return for extended visits tothe Dominican Republic her family fled when she was a child, andmarry three times. She has also infuriated her entire family bypublishing the intimate details of their lives as fiction.Theinjured parties -- her mother, her sisters, the Dominican cousins,the maid's daughter, her teachers, her lover, want to tell theirside of the story, and Yo hands the microphone to them. CousinLucinda shrugs off Yo's characterization of her as a "LatinAmerican Barbie" with "a size three soul", saying, "Looking at herin her late 30s, knocking around the world without a husband,house, or children, I thin

**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.

From the beloved author of How the Garcia Girls Lost TheirAccents and In the Time of Butterflies, an epic and intimate novelabout two generations of women and the personal impact ofhistory.It is the summer of 1960, and Camila Henriquez Urena isabout to travel from Poughkeepsie to Cuba to join Fidel Castro'srevolution. As the daughter of Salome Urena -- thenineteenth-century revolutionary Dominicana poet -- activism ispart of Camila's inheritance. Yet she also knows the confusion ofexile and a painful curiosity about the mother she never knew. Now,as she takes up her mother's legacy, she delves behind the publicfacts of her mother's life and pieces together the story of theprivate Salome -- and thus her own story.

Yambo, a sixtyish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, hassuffered a loss of memory-he can remember the plot of every book hehas ever read, every line of poetry, but he no longer knows his ownname, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, and remembersnothing about his parents or his childhood. In an effort toretrieve his past, he withdraws to the family home somewhere in thehills between Milan and Turin. There, in the sprawling attic, hesearches through boxes of old newspapers, comics, records, photoalbums, and adolescent diaries. And so Yambo relives the story ofhis generation: Mussolini, Catholic education and guilt, JosephineBaker, Flash Gordon, Fred Astaire. His memories run wild, and thelife racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novel.Yambo struggles through the frames to capture one simple, innocentimage: that of his first love. A fascinating, abundant newnovel-wide-ranging, nostalgic, funny, full of heart-from theincomparable Eco.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Raymond Chandler's first threenovels, published here in one volume, established his reputation asan unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. "The BigSleep," Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, aprivate detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralyzed Californiamillionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In"Farewell, My Lovely," Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, amurder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentiallydeadly women. In "The High Window," Marlowe searches the Californiaunderworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in thetangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels,Chandler's hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular,and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establishhis claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to thepantheon of literary art.

Written during 1951-52, this novel was an underground legendby the time it was finally published in 1972. Written in anexperimental form, Kerouac created the ultimate account of hisvoyages with Neal Cassady, which he captured in a different formfor On the Road.

First published in 1990, The Temple of My Familiar, AliceWalker’s follow-up novel to her iconic The Color Purple, spent morethan four months on the New York Times Bestseller list and washailed by critics as a “major achievement” (Chicago Tribune). Described by the author as “a romance ofthe last 500,000 years,” The Temple of My Familiar follows a cast of interrelated characters, most of African descent,and each representing a different ethnic strain—ranging fromdiverse African tribes to the mixed bloods of Latin America—thatcontribute to the black experience in America.