AMERICAN GHOSTS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　David Plante is the author of more than a dozen novels,
including the Francoeur trilogy-The Family, The Woods, and The
Country-as well as a work of nonfiction, Difficult Women: A Memoir
of Three. His work has appeared in many periodicals, The New Yorker
and The Paris Review among them, and has been nominated for a
National Book Award. He teaches writing at Columbia University and
lives in New York and London.

　　This wonderful book takes on what may be the hardest questions
by allowing this most observant individual to see and hear in
miraculous detail. How, it asks, does any person become American,
let alone find a place in the breathing cathedral that is this
majestic universe?–Jane Vandenburgh, Boston Globe
　　”A memoir full of doubts and hesitations, a self-scouring
undertaken with resolute frankness and considerable stylistic grace
. . . Plante shows that origins can work on the spirit with a force
as strong as gravity.”–Sven Birkets, New York Times Book
Review
　　”A book, and a life . . . consumed with exploration and
examination. It is about asking hard questions, and making hard
judgments, and rummaging, mercilessly, through the hidden recesses
of a mind that never rests . . . Remarkable. And memorable.”–David
M. Shribman, Toronto Globe and Mail
　　”Brave and touching . . . In [Plante’s] new understanding of his
dark heritage and his dark longings, he offers a strange,
mysterious, and deeply hopeful sense of spiritual
possibility.”–Valerie Sayers, Commonweal
　　”As a heedful exploration of a psyche, a record of a vulnerable,
likeable man’s encounters with his memories, and a candid,
unprotected disclosure of the wrestling between flesh and spirit,
American Ghosts may be unsurpassed.”–Ron Hansen, America
　　”An emotionally disturbing and spiritually exhilarating
tale.”–Sam Coale, Providence Journal