商品簡介
In the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, a first novel that brilliantly reflects life in the '90s. It is the story of Alex, a native of Maine who arrives at Yale full of anxieties about his modest background. He soon falls in love with Jill, a senior whose sexual politics lead to a violent confrontation.
作者簡介
Hugh Kennedy?is Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He studied Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies before reading Arabic, Persian, and hstory at Cambridge. He was formerly a professor of history at the University of St. Andrews, a position he had held since 1972.