The Rose Grower

The Rose GrowerBy: Michelle de Kretser Writing with poignancy and mesmerizing detail, Michelle de Kretser has penned a haunting tale set against the madness of the French Revolution a wistful, elegantly rendered novel of unrequited love and personal triumph in a world gone tragically awry. The 1789 storming of the Bastille has brought France to the brink of revolution. Yet in the serene heart of the French province of Gascony, little has changed in a hundred years

Predictable rhymes help support a successful reading experience

of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality

From School Library Journal

a well-mannered twenty-one-year-old named Marlene enters the Fifth Avenue apartment of Lee Radziwill to interview for the position of housekeeper and cook

and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and

To the hero of the title story of this collection

as well as developing soft skills such as empathy

Take a few tips from the suffragists

But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre

近年，作者致力於依據法院判決和檔案紀錄書寫美國歷史和社會，為《思想季刊》、《讀書》、《財新週刊》、《南方週末》等期刊撰稿。寫作中，作者力求依循生活世界的常情常理，力戒林語堂先生所批評的：「有學問而沒有感悟，有交誼而沒有了解……有禮義而沒有仁者的存心。」法官中不乏睿智而公道者，偶爾也有文章高手，所撰寫的判決書行文之美、事實敘述和法理論證之明晰自不必說，對世事的感悟和人間溫情也溢於字裡行間。其為人為文都是作者景仰的楷模。

from old-fashioned steam trains to monster racing trucks

David Gemmell’s bestselling novels of magic and adventure feature brooding heroes who fight to preserve all that is good and honorable in themselves and in the worlds through which they stride like lonely giants