Sentences with phrase «war period novel»

Not exact matches

«I really enjoyed this fast - paced novel that focuses on strong but flawed female protagonists set in two different time periods: World War I and post-World War II,» says «pricing geek» Casey Brown.

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.

The new period romance starring Michelle Williams and Matthias Shoenaerts is based on a novel that survived World War II against the odds.

But where Harris's novel understood its place in the bittersweet, paranoid zeitgeist, Black Sunday, with its all - star cast (Robert Shaw two years after Jaws, Bruce Dern at his peak, Marthe Keller a year removed from Marathon Man), megalomaniacal producer Robert Evans, and blockbuster aspirations, proves to be another Star Wars - style harbinger of the impending end of what was possibly the most amazing period in film in history.

Adapted by Rees and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, it is a period epic spanning about five years, from America's 1941 entry into World War II to the immediate postwar era.

Jasper Jones captures the time period, drawing in elements of the Vietnam War and the dissolution of the nuclear family, but it may be overly ambitious in trying to cram too much from the novel into the film.

The strength of Charles Frazier's National Book Award - winning source material lies in its socio - political details of America's Civil War period, but Minghella has focused his picture unerringly on the overrated novel's weaknesses instead: its dialogue, its clumsy Homeric riff (for better country - fried Odyssey, stick to O Brother Where Art Thou?)

In her latest novel, The Alice Network, Kate Quinn deftly captures two distinct periods of 20th - century history: World War I and the aftermath of World War II.

As with Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's The War I Finally Won, set during World War II, this evocative novel explores a time period little known to American children.

This hilarious first novel is set in 2004, at the height of the Iraq War, and finds a troop of war heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour periWar, and finds a troop of war heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour periwar heroes teaming up with the Dallas Cowboys for one surreal 24 - hour period.

If we must make comparison to Le Carré, and when reviewing spy novels it seems de rigueur to do so, it would not be to the early Smiley novels but to Le Carré's more recent works such as Absolute Friends, set in the post Cold - War period when the lines between state - sponsored and private sector intelligence have blurred.

Because the history of this period is so well documented, Furst has ample access to books by journalists of the time, personal memoirs, autobiographies (many of the prominent individuals of the period wrote an autobiography), war and political histories, and characteristic novels written during those years.