好几年来,山达基教会与传记作者丹谢尔曼定有合约,按年代顺序记录这位创始人的生活,但是那本书仍然不被认可,教会拒绝让我和谢尔曼见个面聊一聊。
For years, the church has had a contract with a biographer, Dan Sherman, to chronicle the founder's life, but there is still no authorized book, and the church refused to let me talk to Sherman.
这里和在别处,《转吧,这伟大的世界》感觉成书先于另一部碰撞文化小说——《虚荣的篝火》”,(作者汤姆沃尔夫,是描述1980年代纽约的经典之作。)
Here and elsewhere, “Let the Great World Spin” can feel like a precursor to another novel of colliding cultures: “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Tom Wolfe's classic portrait of New York in the 1980s.
我真不敢相信作者生活在那么久远的年代。
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