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　　分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction（文学与虚构类）,Genre Fiction（类型小说）,
　　品牌: Jim Shepard

基本信息出版社:ALFRED A KNOPF (2011年3月22日)精装:240页正文语种:英语ISBN:0307594823条形码:9780307594822ASIN:0307594823

商品描述内容简介Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating.

A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but doesn’t resist sharingherconfidences. A young Alpine researcher is smitten by the girlfriend of his dead brother, killed in an avalanche he believes he caused. An unlucky farm boy becomes the manservant of a French nobleman who’s as proud of having served with Joan of Arc as he’s aroused by slaughtering children. A free spirit tracks an ancient Shia sect, becoming the first Western woman to travel the Arabian Deserts. From the inventor of the Godzilla epics to a miserable G.I. in New Guinea, each is complicit in his or her downfall and comes to learn that, in love, knowing better is never enough.

These stories traverse centuries, continents, and social strata, yet what they depict with devastating sensitivity—all the heartbreak, alienation, intimacy, and accomplishment—is utterly universal.作者简介Jim Shepardis the author of six novels and three previous collections, the most recent of which,Like You’d Understand, Anyway,won the Story Prize and was a National Book Award finalist. “The Netherlands Lives with Water,” from this collection, will appear inBest American Short Stories 2010(edited by Richard Russo). He lives with his wife and their three children in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

 

 

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