Sentences with phrase «war novel gone»

According to Finkel, «a personal sense of crisis» brought on by the current political climate in the U.S. pervades Tomorrow is Another Day, which was named after the last line of Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War novel Gone with the Wind.

Not exact matches

Mark Bauerlein: Reading the 1991 novel A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin (a contributor to this month's magazine) is like going back to the great works of the 19th century.

In a new study, UC Santa Barbara marine biologists applied existing technology in a novel way to monitor animals coming into and going out of a lagoon via a deep channel dredged during World War II.

Leading up to the release of one of Marvel's biggest films, based on one of their best selling graphic novels, Captain America: Civil War, all of us were uttering the sentence, «Who's going to die?»

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periWar II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the periwar to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

By contrast, every character in Howl's Moving Castle — derived from an English novel by Diana Wynne Jones — is both lovable and seriously flawed, and though a war does rage around them, the only villains are the faceless forces on both sides that keep it going.

Adapted from a novel by Kevin Powers, this is a searing antiwar drama about «kids who go to war too young and get destroyed,» Mr. Cooper said.

Ithaca (PG for mature themes, smoking and a violent image) Meg Ryan makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of The Human Comedy, William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize - winning novel, set in 1942, revolving around a 14 year - old's (Alex Neustaedter) attempt to provide for his widowed mother (Ryan) and siblings (Spencer Howell and Christine Nelson) after his older brother (Jack Quaid) goes off to fight in World War II.

Based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and the Tony Award - winning play of the same name, «War Horse» is like a movie from another era — an old - fashioned, Golden Age - style epic in the vein of «Gone with the Wind.»

«Undoubtedly the darkest film in the series, it goes hard and heavy on its subject matter, becoming more of a war movie than something you'd expect from a bunch of children's novels.»

Based on the novel, «All You Need is Kill» Hiroshi Sakurazaka and directed by Doug Liman (Go, The Bourne Identity) Cruise plays a soldier fighting in a war with aliens finds only to find himself caught in a time loop of his last day in the battle.

In fact, it might just be his worst movie to date — an adaptation of Ben Fountain's 2012 satirical war novel that's plagued by some really stilted dialogue and acting, as well as a number of awful subplots that go nowhere.

Shinya Tsukamoto's Fires on the Plain splashed fresh gore on the classic Kon Ichikawa adaptation of the Shohei Ooka novel, bringing ample frenetic camerawork and (quite literally) visceral portrayals of the Hell on Earth that was a Philippine island in the waning days of World War II, stalked by abandoned Japanese soldiers going mad.

Meg Rosoff won the 2005 Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature for her first novel, How I Live Now, the story of a 15 - year - old girl who goes to live with relatives in England, only to find herself caught up in the outbreak of the third world war.

For those looking for more specifics, the following might be helpful: Young - adult and upper - level middle - grade novels in all subgenres; Big crossover novels with one foot squarely in genre (Wool, The Night Circus, Gone Girl); Literary commercial novels (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Art of Racing in the Rain); Upmarket women's fiction (Keepsake, My Sister's Keeper, Still Alice); Single - title romance (historicals especially)(Ravishing The Heiress, The Ugly Duchess, The Heir); Lead title or hardcover science fiction and fantasy (Soulless, Game of Thrones, Old Man's War).

After The Poppy War and its sequels sold, I went first to the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2016 and the CSSF Novel Writing Workshop in 2017.

The novel effectively illustrates those tense October days in 1962, even going so far as to include whole transcriptions of conversations in Kennedy's war room.

Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen books, including No Less Than Victory, The Steel Wave, The Rising Tide, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure — two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father's Pulitzer Prize — winning classic The Killer Angels.

Two amazing books in helping those of us who haven't gone to war grab important insights are the novel, Matterhorn, and the non-fiction Why We Go To War, both by Karl Marlantwar grab important insights are the novel, Matterhorn, and the non-fiction Why We Go To War, both by Karl MarlantWar, both by Karl Marlantes.

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We're going to continue our conversation with Helen Simonson, author of the bestselling novel, «Major Pettigrew's Last Stand,» and also her new one, her second novel, the sophomore effort, called «The Summer Before the War.»

New Adult: Mrs. Lieutenant: A Novel By Phyllis Zimbler Miller Just married 21 - year - old Sharon Gold must learn to survive in the alien world of the U.S. Army during the unpopular Vietnam War when her husband goes on active duty in the spring of 1970.

The story so far reads like something out of a sci - fi novel, except that it's playing out right now inside EVE Online, so if you've missed it, then I recommend going back and reading our coverage of the war from the beginning.

Bad Apple Wars is one of those visual novels that we were not completely sure about what the story was going to be when starting it up for the first time.

In the work's elaborate title, «Gone» refers to Margaret Mitchell's 1936 best - selling melodramatic novel Gone with the Wind, set during the American Civil War.