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简介：Includes fiction by Kate Chopin, Gail Godwin, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Faulkner, Grace Paley, Dickens, Melville, Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, Hemingway, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Colette, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Stephen Crane, Joseph Conrad, Garcia Marquez, Tillie Olsen, Mark Twain, Poe, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Cade Bambara, John Cheever, Joyce, Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Updike, Yukio Mishima, Louise Erdrich, Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, E.L. Doctorow, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. others. Includes poems by Marge Piercy, Robert Hayden, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Larkin, E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver, John Donne, Nikki Giovanni, Emily Dickinson, Randall Jarrell, Maxine Kumin, Robert Herrick, Andrew Marvell, Richard Wilbur, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Thomas Hardy, David R. Slavitt, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith, Jane Kenyon, William Carlos Williams, Adelaide Crapsey, Walt Whitman, Theodore Roethke, Matthew Arnold, H.D., William Blake, Wilfred Owen, Margaret Atwood, Robert Lowell, Mark Strand, Richmond Lattimore, Anne Bradstreet, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Wordsworth, Robert Graves, May Swenson, Robert Frost, Poe, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Eberhart, D.H. Lawrence, Louise Bogan, Robert Browning, Ezra Pound, Leonard Cohen, Galway Kinnell, Richard Armour, Robert Southey, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lewis Carroll, Jean Toomer, Pope, Yeats, A.E. Housman, Ben Jonson, Dorothy Parker, Tennyson, Richard Lovelace, Shakespeare, Basho, Seamus Heaney, Shelley, George Herbert, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, Keats, W.H. Auden, Robert Bly, Rupert Brooke, Robert Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Countee Cullen, Lucille Clifton, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Donald Hall, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, X.J. Kennedy, Audre Lord, Archibald MacLeish, Claude McKay, Christopher Marlowe, Milton, Ogden Nash, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, John Crowe Ransom, Anne Sexton, Delmore Schwartz, Leslie Marmon Silko, Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatove, Claribel Alegria, Baudelaire, Garcia Lorca, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Rilke, Sappho, Amy Clampitt, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, and others. Includes drama and writings on drama by Sophocles, Aristotle, Muriel Rukeyser, Jean Anouilh, Maurice Sagoff, Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, Freud, Moliere, Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Samuel Beckett, Martin Esslin, Harold Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Wole Soyinka, James Gibb, Caryl Churchill, August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Owen Davis, Susan Glaspell, Eric Bentley, David Savran, Susan Sontag, Judith Fetterley, Annette Kolodny, and others.

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简介：Warning that climate change is fast becoming an issue that "will dwarf all others combined," Flannery (U. of Adelaide, Australia) uses these pages to summarize the scientific evidence regarding climate change for a general audience. He has sought to be comprehensive in coverage, discussing the role of climate change in the evolution of the earth, the natural and anthropogenic driving factors of climate change, the range of environmental effects thought to be connected to the phenomena, global models and predictions, and technology- and policy-based solutions. Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：In this absorbing study--the first comprehensive exploration of the rhetoric of the novel--Zahava Karl McKeon investigates the complex interrelations of critical poetics, grammars, dialectics, and rhetorics to devise a systematic means of dealing with the structure of prose works as communicative objects. Using the vocabulary and conceptual resources of Aristotle and Cicero, she pursues this exploration to discover the kinds of arguments that characterize novels, to find a way of distinguishing novels from other discursive wholes, and to discriminate different genres of the novel. McKeon's arguments are supplemented by readings of a variety of texts, including the novels and stories of Gunter Grass, John Fowles, Robert Coover, and Flannery O'Connor.

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简介：From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this Companion is the definitive guide to the literature and culture of the American South. Includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region; combines treatment of major literary works and historical events with a survey of broader themes, movements and issues; and explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Huston, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty, as well as those - black and white, male and female - who are writing now. - Publisher.

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简介：""Lord, I'm glad I'm a hermit novelist," Flannery O'Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O'Connor spent the last thirteen years of her life on the family farm in rural Georgia, which she claimed was accessible "only by bus or buzzard." During this productive, solitary time she became increasingly fascinated by fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment." "In Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist, Richard Giannone explores O'Connor's identification with these early Christian monastics, a bond that stemmed from her faith as well as her own isolation and physical suffering from lupus, and the ways in which their strange, still voices illuminate her fiction. Distinguishing among various desert calls summoning O'Connor's protagonists to solitude and renunciation, Giannone shows how these characters live out a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of grappling with their demons and drawing closer to God."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介："Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love interprets O'Connor's perplexing fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, this seminal study takes the pleasure of turning to the short stories and novels themselves and forming an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. This goal inevitably entails a consideration of the hardness and violence that are the hallmark of O'Connor's genius. That severity, for Giannone, is inseparable from O'Connor's recounting, in her words, "the action of grace." God's bounty can leave its beneficiaries with some very real handicaps." "These devastations paradoxically prepare the characters to receive and give compassion. In its numerous and disturbing forms, the coupling of violence and hardship with divine favor marks the mature nature of O'Connor's Christianity."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：Flannery O'Connor's Southoffers a forceful analysis, both literary and philosophical, of Flannery O'Connor's life and literature. First published in 1980, this study draws upon Robert Coles' personal experiences in the South during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, his brief acquaintance with Flannery O'Connor, and his careful readings of her works. The voices and gestures of the people Coles met in the South help illuminate the social scene that influenced one of the region's most valuable and interesting writers.

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简介：Hailed by critics as one of the more con颅troversial of contemporary American authors, Flannery O'Connor has been de颅scribed as the most extreme Christian dualist since Dostoevsky. In this first full-length study of O'Connor's work, Brown颅ing explores the implications of O'Con颅nor's situation as a Roman Catholic in the South in the 1950s. 聽 From this point of departure Browning offers a detailed analysis of Wise Blood , A Good Man Is Hard to Find , The Vio颅lent Bear It Away ,and Everything That Rises Must Converge. Touching upon writings about intensely religious acts and dilemmas, this look at a Roman Catholic Southern writer will be of special interest to students of philosophy and religion.

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简介：With an Introduction by Hilary Long Marjorie Bowen (1885-1952) spent the early part of her working life providing for a demanding and ungrateful family. We are lucky that she did so, since among the results were these short stories of rare quality. In their use of dreams, ancient anecdote, and ruined or dilapidated buildings ('Florence Flannery', 'The Fair Hair of Ambrosine') they are at times in the finest tradition of The Castle of Otranto and the Gothic revival which had chilled the blood of 更多>>

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简介：Includes humorous writings by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, Woody Allen, Jean Shepherd, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Flannery O'Connor, Nathanael West, Donald Barthelme, Bernard Malamud, Joseph Heller, Benjamin Franklin, Seba Smith, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, Bill Nye, Finley Peter Dunne, Will Rogers, Art Buchwald, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving, A.B. Longstreet, T.B. Thorpe, Joel Chandler Harris, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Paul Laurence Dunbar, George Ade, Ambrose Bierce, Vaudeville Sketch, James Thurber, William Faulkner, Alexander Woollcott, The Firesign Theatre, Dick Allen, Don Marquis, Robert Benchley, S.J. Perelman, Ring Lardner, Russell Baker, Peter De Vries, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Judith Viorst, Louis D. Rubin Jr., Louis Kronenberger, Constance Rourke, James Agee, Arthur Asa Berger, Horace Newcomb, and Ihab Hassan.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 "May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence."-Library Journal"Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner."-Robert Coles, America   Publisher Summary 2 The popular psychoanalyst examines the continuing tension in our lives between the possibilities that freedom offers and the various limitations imposed upon us by our particular fate or destiny.  

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简介："Flannery O'Connor, the renowned short-story writer, livedand fought a tumultuous battle with lupus erythematosus most of her adult life. In her last five years, she soughtinsightful and helpful sources to alleviate her struggle with the disease. Among these sources were the ideas and thoughts of a Jesuit-paleontologist-mystic by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an individual who opened doorsof witness to the secular world and attracted suspicious questioning from his Catholic superiors. Like a moth drawnto a flame, Flannery O'Connor, a devoted Thomist, increasingly admired the ideas of Teilhard de Chardin to the point that she incorporated his ideas into her last six short stories in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. This book adds significantly to the neglected study of Teilhard de Chardin's influence in the later literary development of Flannery O'Connor. This bookwould be a valuable asset to students and scholars focusing on American literature, Southern literature, twentieth-century Southern female writers, and Flannery O'Connor."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介："In her short life, the prolific Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, thirty-two stories, and numerous essays and articles. Although her importance as a twentieth-century southern writer is unquestionable, mainstream feminist criticism has generally neglected O'Connor's work ... In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a 'southern lady' and professional author. Placing gender at the center of her analytical framework, Prown considers the reasons for feminist critical negelct of the writer and traces the cultural origins of the complicated aesthetic that informs O'Connor's fiction, but published and unpublished ... O'Connor's relationship with her mentor Caroline Gordon, and its eventual disintegration, played a significant role in her development. As Prown shows, their relationship underlies the shift from the relatively 'feminine' authorial voice of O'Connor's earliest drafts toward the decidedly masculinized tone of her published works. Incorporating an insightful examination of the author in relation to the Fugitive/Agrarian and New Critical movements, Prown provides an original exploration of O'Connor's changing gender perspectives"--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：　　"Wise Blood," Flannery O'Connor's astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate fate, this tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction.　　

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简介：Includes writings by Maya Angelou, Ernest Hemingway, Gary Gildner, Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid, Amanda Holzer, Monica Ware, Kate Chopin, Stephen Dobyns, William Faulkner, John Updike, Katherine Mansfield, Charles Baxter, Sherman J. Alexie, Tillie Olsen, Richard Wright, Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Tim O'Brien, Shirley Jackson, Alice Walker, Raymond Carver, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Eudora Welty, David Michael Kaplan, D.H. Lawrence, Toni Cade Bambara, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Gabriel García Márquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Joyce Carol Oates, Alberto Alvaro Ríos, Amy Tan, Hisaye Yamamoto, Marianne Moore, Nikki Giovanni, Bob Holman, William Shakespeare, Louis Zukofsky, E.E. Cummings, George Herbert, May Swenson, Greg Williamson, Charles Bernstein, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Reed Altemus and Jim Leftwich, Bob Grumman, Emily Dickinson, Louise Glück, Leonard Adamé, Langston Hughes, Robert Browning, Leslie Marmon Silko, Pat Mora, Janice Mirikitani, Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Thomas Hardy, Adam Zagajewski, William Wordsworth, Robert Herrick, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ariel Dorfman, W.H. Auden, Dudley Randall, Sipho Sepamla, Walt Whitman, William Stafford, Adrienne Rich, Robert Pinsky, Jim Sagel, Wanda Coleman, Mark Halliday, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edmund Spenser, A.E. Housman, Jane Flanders, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Suzanne E. Berger, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Audre Lorde, Robert Burns, N. Scott Momaday, Sylvia Plath, Randall Jarrell, Marge Piercy, John Donne, David Huddle, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Richard Lovelace, Sonai Sanchez, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ogden Nash, Richard Wilbur, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Galway Kinnell, Robert Francis, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Billy Collins, Mona Van Duyn, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Martin Espada, Matsuo Bashō, Carolyn Kizer, José Juan Tablada, Jack Kerouac, Carl Sandburg, Carolyn Forché, Jim Simmerman, Christina Rossetti, Wole Soyinka, William Meredith, Maxine Kumin, Countee Cullen, William Butler Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Robert Hayden, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Seamus Heaney, Mitsuye Yamada, Dylan Thomas, Joy Harjo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Dorothy Parker, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Yusef Komunyakaa, Wislawa Szymborska, Matthew Arnold, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Thomas Campion, Hart Crane, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Louise Erdrich, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Edward Hirsch, Aron Keesbury, Ted Kooser, Archibald MacLeish, Christopher Marlowe, Claude McKay, James Merrill, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Sylvia Plath, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Reed, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Phillis Wheatley, Anton Chekhov, Jane Martin, José Rivera, Arlene Hutton, Warren Leight, Susan Glaspell, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Arthur Miller, Sophocles, August Wilson, and Tennessee Williams.

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简介：Designed for an introductory college course, this volume presents 67 classic and contemporary works of short fiction from around the world. Two casebooks explore in depth the works of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver. Also included are 28 critical excerpts from the ten major schools of literary criticism and theory. Three chapters are devoted to writing, and sample papers and writing exercises are integrated throughout the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) spent most of her life in rural Georgia, and though she never quite fit into that world -- her family was Catholic in a very Protestant region, and she was highly educated, unmarried, and some would say surly, in a world in which women were expected to be ladies -- she created some of the most lasting portraits of the South, its spiritual struggles, and its grotesque humor. O'Connor suffered quite severely from lupus for much of her life and died at the age of 39, but her career profoundly influenced the development not simply of the literature of the South but of American fiction more generally.

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简介：Includes works by James Joyce, Kate Chopin, Lee K. Abbott, Chinua Achebe, Julia Alvarez, Sherwood Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Margaret Atwood, Isaac Babel, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Ann Beattie, Ambrose Bierce, Heinrich Boll, Jorge Luis Borges, Kay Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Hortense Calisher, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Sandra Cisneros, Colette, Julio Cortazar, Stephen Crane, Isak Dinesen, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gail Godwin, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, D.H. Lawrence, Ursula K. LeGuin, Doris Lessing, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mann, Katherine Mansfield, Bobbie Ann Mason, Guy de Maupassant, Yukio Mishima, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Frank O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, Dorothy Parker, I.L. Peretz, Luigi Pirandello, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Amy Tan, James Thurber, John Updike, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, John Edgar Wideman, William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, Richard Wright, Leo Tolstoy, Elizabeth Bowen, Henry James, Howard Moss, and others.

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简介：     Book Description     Fiction. Asian Studies. Winner of the Hemingway/PEN Award for first fiction for his story collection OCEAN OF WORDS, and of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction for UNDER THE RED FLAG, Ha Jin is a writer of stark power, simple beauty and poignant irony. IN THE POND is a close, unsentimental depiction of life in a small faCtory town; the manuevering, posturing, petty jealousies and injustices of an ordinary man, Shao Bin, who tangles with the party bosses. In this first novel, as in his short fiction,          Amazon.com     In the Pondis a slim little book about some very big issues: power, vanity, art, injustice, and politics. Where Tom Wolfe would find the makings for a doorstop, however, debut novelist Ha Jin has created a rough-cut comic gem. Set in Communist China, the book takes as its hero a small, unprepossessing man named Shao Bin, a maintenance employee at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant and also a self-taught artist. Together with his wife and 2-year-old daughter, Bin inhabits a tiny 12-by-20-foot room. Bin is desperate to move into the newly built workers' compound, and he places his name on the waiting list with high hopes. But when the plant managers pass him over, despite the fact that he's been working there for years, Bin finally cracks. "In brief, the true scholar's brush must encourage good and warn against evil," he reads in The Essence of Ancient Chinese Thought, and inspired, he publishes a satirical cartoon protesting official corruption. The consequences of this simple act snowball, and in self-defense, Bin finds himself aiming his attacks ever higher up the bureaucratic ladder. This is a book that works on multiple levels: as character study, as political allegory, as sly bureaucratic satire, even, at times, as the broadest kind of slapstick. (One memorable scene involves Bin biting his superior on the butt.) Bin himself is half persecuted artist, half self-righteous boor; readers both sympathize with him and wonder along with one of his coworkers, "Why do you enjoy fighting so much?" Even his putative victory is left in doubt. As the book ends, Shao Bin has become perhaps a bigger fish, but there's no doubt about it; he's in the very same small pond where he started.     --Mary Park          From Publishers Weekly     Prize-winning short-story writer Ha Jin (Ocean of Words won the PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction; Under the Red Flag won the Flannery O'Connor Award) offers a wise and funny first novel that gathers meticulously observed images into a seething yet restrained tale of social injustice in modern China. Talented artist Shao Bin has an unsatisfying job at a large fertilizer plant. After being denied a decent housing assignment, he begins a series of retaliatory satirical cartoons, which illustrate his employers' flaws and in turn earn their wrath?which in turn inspires more cartoons. When his superiors try to transfer him, they are chagrined to discover that Bin is much in demand?and that any new job he gets is likely to be a step up. So they decide to keep him on. After an occasionally monotonous sequence of attacks and counterattacks, Bin finally gets promoted to the propaganda office. He is ecstatic, although his family must still make do with the same uncomfortable apartment that started the conflict. Luckily, the characters' complexity saves the story from political overkill. The supervisors, through moments of vulnerability, come to seem like genuinely detestable human beings rather than one-dimensional villains. Bin, similarly, is both justifiably indignant and annoying in his self-absorption. Ha Jin's humor initially appears clownish but almost always has a double purpose: when Bin's supervisor sits on his face to silence him, Bin bites the boss' posterior?illustrating rather vividly his refusal to kiss ass. Through Ha Jin's gently ironic treatment, Bin's struggle both to achieve power in his community and retain his own dignity transcends its Communist Chinese setting, engagingly illustrating a universal conundrum.          From Kirkus Reviews     A first novel by the Chinese dissident and poet whose previous stories (Under the Red Flag, 1997, etc.) have already entitled to him fair comparisons with Solzhenitsyn. Anyone in the West who picks up Ha Jin for the first time must experience a close approximation of what readers of Arthur Koestler or Isaac Babel felt 60 years ago, insofar as Ha Jin is the first Chinese Communist to make fictional use of daily life under the Party. Here, he describes the travails of Shao Bin, an amateur painter and calligrapher who works as a department-store fitter. Annoyed that his housing application has been passed over in favor of Party relatives and cronies, Shao Bin begins drawing and circulating satirical cartoons accusing the local Party heads of corruption. One of these eventually gets published in a Beijing newspaper, and Shao Bin finds himself at the center of a national debate on Party leadership and local politics. The ease with which Ha Jin's characters move between the old and new worlds that they simultaneously inhabit (praying to Buddha, for example, in order to receive Party preferment) lends a satiric edge to the daily ironies of Communist life in an essentially feudal society and gives Ha Jin's account a fabulous, almost allegorical tone much like that of Orwell's Animal Farm. If his prose occasionally gives off a leaden ring (``They had taken him for a mere bookworm, but all of a sudden he had emerged as a man of both strategy and action'') reminiscent of a Maoist Party slogan, it can only add to the atmosphere. Fascinating, refreshing, and uncommonly subtle: Ha Jin has made China available to a new world and a world of new readers.          Inside Flap Copy     National Book Award-winner Ha Jin's arresting debut novel , In the Pond,is a darkly funny portrait of an amateur calligrapher who wields his delicate artist's brush as a weapon against the powerful party bureaucrats who rule his provincial Chinese town.          Shao Bin is a downtrodden worker at the Harvest Fertilizer Plant by day and an aspiring artist by night. Passed over on the list to receive a decent apartment for his young family, while those in favor with the party's leaders are selected ahead of him, Shao Bin chafes at his powerlessness. When he attempts to expose his corrupt superiors by circulating satirical cartoons, he provokes an escalating series of merciless counterattacks that send ripples beyond his small community. Artfully crafted and suffused with earthy wit, In the Pond is a moving tale about humble lives caught up in larger social forces.          Book Dimension     length: (cm)18.1 width:(cm)11

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简介：An international line-up of authors trace the form, history, impact, reception, and decisive themes of Muriel Spark, from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodieto The Finishing School. Original essays confront Spark's entire oeuvre& mdashpoetry, prose, and criticism& mdash;and consider how matters of biography, geography, gender, identit...   more 粂, nation, and religion are at work& mdash;and at play& mdash;in Spark's multifaceted writing. This anthology shows Spark to be a consummate artist as well as a proactive and persuasive thinker on social questions, including the welfare state, secularization, decolonization, and anti-psychiatry. The volume compares Spark alongside contemporaries including J.M. Coetzee, Graham Greene, and Flannery O'Connor, and it ends with a look at Spark's legacy in the twenty-first century.   ?less