The Boy in the Striped
基本信息 出版社: Vintage Classics (2012年7月5日) 平装: 320页 语种: 英语 ISBN: 0099561549 条形码: 9780099561545 商品尺寸: 13 x 2 x 19.8 cm 商品重量: 222 g ASIN: 0099561549 商品描述 媒体推荐 "I was stunned by it... It s beautifully written in simple but brilliant prose, a novel of an ordinary life, an examination of a quiet tragedy, the work of a great but little-known writer" (Ruth Rendell Guardian ) "A masterpiece of sad lucidity, as moving as it is psychologically compelling" (Peter Kemp Sunday Times ) "It is a remarkably affecting story, told in quiet, unshowy prose" (Stefan Collini Times Literary Supplement ) "In recent times I have owed more to word of mouth than to the statements of reviewers, when it comes to finding my way to rewarding work published or reissued This is also true, or truer still, of Stoner " (Karl Miller Times Literary Supplement ) "My favourite book of the year...a masterpiece―beautifully written with a rare tenderness
The Razor's Edge毛姆短故事精选集1 Product Details Paperback Publisher: Pocket Books (1973) ISBN-10: 0099284863 ISBN-13: 978-0099284864 ASIN: B000VV1DI6 Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches Book De******ion Publication Date: 1973 23rd Printing. 296 pages, minor wear to softcover.
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand de*ion, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful