【图书简介】 "Mr.Thompson's novel brilliantly evokes the Depression and dramatiaes the lives of some remarkably fiesty and tenacious people...the story is inescapably sensational but neverthe-less believable and even touching...A raffish and exuberant book that movingly asserts the strength of a boy's will and spirit."-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"A Garden of Sand is a stunningly Powerful story about the dignity born of desperation. it is also a moving portrayal of the growth, discoveries and xexual awakening of a bou."-CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER"A brilliant,brutal and enormously exciting novel."-LOS ANGELES TIMES"The characters are intensely alive...A genuinely Powerful and impressive novel."-SATURDAY REVIEW"A rare novel-tough,honest,uncompromisng and yet heartening."-NEWSDAY"A big,blistering sexual odyssey in the down and out days of the thirties...a realistic and captivating novel."-CHICAGO SUN-TIMES作者简介Earl Thompsonhas you by the lapels and before long you're hooked by a story that has style,swaggar,raw sexuality and a seduction straight out of Oedipus....This is crisp,incisive writing with a sardonic overview and a sharp cutting dege that impresses itself on your memory...His charcters are intensely alive and his prose crackles. A genuinely powerful and impressive noves.-John Barkhan,Saturday Review Syndicate.-读书网|DuShu.com