戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们要读的
Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old cognitive psychologyprofessor at Harvard, and a world-renowned expert in linguistics,with grown children and a satisfying marriage, when she starts toexperience fleeting forgetfulness and disorientation. She initiallyattributes these episodes to normal aging or menopause. But as hersymptoms worsen, she sees a neurologist and is given the diagnosisthat will change her life forever: early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease.With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning andpurpose in her life as her sense of self is gradually strippedaway, leaving her unable to continue in her profession, take careof herself, recognize her loved ones or even understand that shehas a neurodegenerative disease. Without memory or hope, Alice isforced to live in the moment, which is in turns beautiful,terrifying, and maddening. Genova uses the successful, articulateand independent Alice as the perfect vehicle to capture what itfeels like to literally lose your mind. This novel will touch
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twentyillustrations by Peter SA-s with Jorge Luis Borgesas 1957compilation of 116 astrange creatures conceived through time andspace by the human imagination, a from dragons and centaurs toLewis Carrollas Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wellsas "TheTime Machine." A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to lifewith art commissioned specifically for this volume, "The Book ofImaginary Beings" will delight readers of classic fantasy as wellas Borgesas many admirers.
In this widely hailed book, NPR correspondent Tom Gjeltenfuses the story of the Bacardi family and their famous rum businesswith Cuba's tumultuous experience over the last 150 years toproduce a deeply entertaining historical narrative. The companyFacundo Bacardi launched in Cuba in 1862 brought worldwide fame tothe island, and in the decades that followed his Bacardidescendants participated in every aspect of Cuban life. With hisintimate account of their struggles and adventures across fivegenerations, Gjelten brings to life the larger story of Cuba'sfight for freedom, its tortured relationship with America, the riseof Fidel Castro, and the violent division of the Cuban nation.
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi
A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.
In Anne Bartlett's engaging novel, a chance meeting sparks afriendship between two very different women who share a fascinationwith knitting. Sandra, a rigid academic, struggles to navigate theworld without her husband, whom she has recently lost to cancer.Martha--a self-taught textile artist with her own secret store ofgrief--spends her days knitting elaborate projects charged withpersonal meaning. As the two women collaborate on a new project,surprising events will help heal them both.
