TELLING TIME
Book ID/图书代码: 00970016B93292
English Summary/英文概要: As a college president, Thomas Westerly, 72, was a paragon of virtue, a crusader for everything from civil rights to ecology. Now, as he lies dying surrounded by his children, he asks them to go through his papers and destroy anything deemed embarrassing. The children are stunned by the request. But as they leaf through his diaries and records, they discover scandals, neuroses and deviance, leaving them to ask just how well we know the people that we love...
Chinese Summary/中文概要: 作为一名大学校长,72岁的托马斯•韦斯特利是美德的典范,是从民权到生态等各个方面的改革者。现在,他躺在他的孩子们身边奄奄一息,他要求他们浏览他的文件,销毁任何被认为令人尴尬的东西。孩子们被这个要求惊呆了。但当他们翻阅他的日记和记录时,他们发现了丑闻、神经症和异常行为,这让他们不禁要问,我们到底对我们爱的人了解多少……(WYL)
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《失去的杰作》的作者托尼和苏珊,写了一本关于家庭、失败和致命缺陷的精彩、刺耳的小说。
Keynote
From the author of the lost masterpiece, Tony and Susan, comes a brilliant, cacophonous novel of families, failings and fatal flaws.
About the Author/作者介绍: 奥斯汀•赖特1922年出生于纽约。他是一位小说家、学者,多年来在辛辛那提大学担任英语教授。他与妻子和女儿住在辛辛那提,于2003年去世,享年80岁。
Austin Wright was born in New York in 1922. He was a novelist, an academic and, for many years, Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He lived with his wife and daughters in Cincinnati, and died in 2003 at the age of eighty.
Format:HARDCOVER
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