Sentences with phrase «age novel about»

Unlikely Soldiers Book One (Civvy to Squaddie): (A coming of age novel about life, love and friendship)

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.

Filled with lyrics and phrases from notable Palestinian poets, this is a profound and morally complex coming - of - age novel about an Israeli soldier who forms a close bond with Palestinian siblings.

The first is a coming of age novel about high school romance and pitfalls of making it through the senior year to graduation.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical, Jazz Age novel about the idealist James Gatsby — and the nature of the American Dream.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky's epistolary, coming - of - age novel about an introverted, emotionally scarred high school freshman named Charlie.

Not exact matches

I've been reading an historical novel — World Without End by Ken Follett — and it's got me thinking about how Western civilization evolved from the middle ages to the age of enlightenment.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Since he is about my age, I grew up seeing that much of the stuff he incoporated into his novels was plagiarized right out of old B horror movies of the 1950's and early sixties!

Novel insights from the research suggest that information about risky online behavior should be tailored to different age groups, according to the study by Claire White, Dr. Yaniv Hanoch and Dr. Michaela Gummerum of Plymouth University's School of Psychology in the United Kingdom.

A novel Yale study answers age - old questions about how cancers spread by applying tools from evolutionary biology.

Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research have developed and validated a novel easy - to - administer tool to score and track delirium severity in the ICU, enabling clinicians to make better decisions about the brain health of ICU patients.

The programs also seek to integrate neuroscience and clinical disciplines with public health initiatives in order to disseminate and implement novel findings from research centers of excellence, as well as conduct community outreach to raise awareness about the diseases of aging.

Paulaitis says «the novel concepts put forth in this study, of investigating small molecules called microRNAs to see what they can tell us about mitochondria disorders in cells of the retina, hold great promise of providing new insights into how age - related macular degeneration develops, after which new treatments can be designed to save or improve vision.»

Her debut novel, Between Land and Sea (a paranormal romance about a middle - aged mermaid) is available on Amazon.

Timeless, extraordinary novel about ambition, aging, and class.

Director Elia Kazan gives us his adaptation of the Betty Smith novel about a young girl coming - of - age in 1900s Brooklyn.

Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.

It's hard to imagine a creative trio bringing Colm Tóibín's 2009 novel, «Brooklyn,» to the screen as elegantly as star Saoirse Ronan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, and director John Crowley; it was a seamless fit for this sweeping coming - of - age adaptation about a an Irish girl relocating to America in the 1950's.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.

On the contrary: in adapting André Aciman's 2007 novel, Guadagnino and screenwriter James Ivory have produced a film that simultaneously analyzes and dramatizes issues of sexuality, religious identity, and, once again, privilege — with enough well - read bourgeois lazing about in the sun to give Michael Haneke hives — and yet without straining against its clearly marked narrative boundaries as a coming - of - age romance, or exploding its form as an accessible, fundamentally pleasing upper - middlebrow entertainment.

«Call Me By Your Name» --- A gentle, almost - pastoral tale of first love directed with affection by Luca Guadagnino and based on Andre Aciman's novel about a highly educated 17 - year - old (Timothée Chalamet) whose world gets rocked by Oliver (an apparently never - aging Armie Hammer), a handsome scholar assigned to assist his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a professor working in Italy during a long, hot summer.

Sparklingly adapted from Winifred Watson's beloved cult novel, it sees downtrodden, middle - aged governess Miss Pettigrew (dowdy - haired Frances McDormand) about to hit the soup line unless she can bag a last, long - shot job.

6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.

She had achieved the seemingly impossible task of bringing to the screen Virginia Woolf's fantastical 1928 novel about a 16th - century English nobleman who lives through three centuries, while aging only three decades and changing gender in the process.

Heartfelt lessons about bullying and self - esteem are shoehorned into a contrived and predictable narrative structure in this mildly nostalgic coming - of - age drama adapted from a novel by journalist Robert Lipsyte.

James Ivory wrote the screenplay, adapted from the Andre Aciman novel about a young man's sexual coming of age in Europe in the early 1980s, starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Adapted from the novel by Eleanor Henderson, TEN THOUSAND SAINTS is a coming - of - age story about three teenagers in late 1980s New York City — Jude (Asa Butterfield), new to the city from Vermont, «straight - edge» musician Johnny (Emile Hirsch), and troubled, rich uptown girl Eliza (Hailee Steinfeld)-- who break away from their messed - up parents (Ethan Hawke and Emily Mortimer) to form their own surrogate family.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower director Stephen Chbosky stays firmly within his poignant wheelhouse by adapting someone else's bestselling coming - of - age tale — this time R.J. Palacio's novel about a boy born with a facial deformity (Room's Jacob Tremblay) who struggles to fit in at his new school.

Logan Lerman stars in the coming - of - age drama, which is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his sheltered family life in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio, where he clashes with the dean (Tracy Letts) and falls for a classmate (Sarah Gadon).

The coming - of - age drama is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his sheltered family life in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio, where he clashes with the dean.

Australian director Robert Connolly discusses his adaptation of Elliot Perlman's novel about the souring of the Australian dream in an age of economic rationalism.

The coming - of - age drama is based on the novel by Philip Roth about the son of a kosher butcher who leaves his family in New Jersey to attend college in Ohio.

Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, releases her fourth novel, a coming - of - age story about a young woman during the Russian Revolution.

Sheila Roberts: Susan Johnson's directorial debut, Carrie Pilby, is an upbeat coming - of - age romantic dramedy adapted by Kara Holden from Caren Lissner's YA novel of the same name about a smart but emotionally stunted 19 - year - old prodigy struggling to get her life in order.

In its hero and actor Paul Giamatti, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor have found the middle - aged Everyman, a sad - sack, depressed - but - medicated middle - school English teacher who has written a huge novel about his life and awaits its acceptance or rejection by a publisher.

It is suitable for students age 11 and up who are ready to read about a time and lifestyle that differ from their own, and are able to take an interest in larger, challenging themes of life (the passage of time, spiritual beliefs, the natural world, money and government affairs, history, etc.) This eBook contains reading comprehension sheets to go with the novel.

Contents of this guide run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Form and structure comprehension questions * Settings questions * Context (students explore key issues raised in the play such as youth stereotypes, gang culture, growing violence in the age of the internet etc) * Symbols and Motifs - lots of information about symbols and motifs in the play, followed by a revision activity * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down chapter by chapter and provide thematic links etc. * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the novel * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

And now I've written another novel, aged 23 - 26 and it's the best thing I've ever written, and I think it's just about good enough to inflict on the world

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

As they work on their forthcoming titles, the co-founders, who have their own personal projects in development — Lee is working on a book about the struggles of being overly connected in the digital age (eg, texting, IM, e-mail); Love is working on her second novel, about how historians and politicians in the present day contort the history of a failed slave uprising in early 19th century Virginia — continue to experiment with what both the e-book platforms and their own website user experience will look like.

Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel «Secrets & Lies in El Salvador» is about an American girl in war - torn El Salvador: http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y Her husband made a video for her novel.

A coming - of - age novel and a literary thriller that weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an unforgettable story about the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.

Scholastic is boasting — and justifiably so — about the news that Suzanne Collins» teen novel Catching Fire is now the best - selling book in the country for any age group, according to bestseller lists just released by USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

I've been buying a lot of ebooks in the last 6 months and there are huge differences, depending on author, type of book, age of the book etc For instance; I recently bought the first 15 Mr Monk novels for about 5 $ a piece.

By turns lighthearted and profound, Sunnyside is an altogether spellbinding novel about dreams, ambition, and the dawn of the modern age.

Would you call this primarily a political novel, or is it more a coming - of - age story about one young woman's personal journey?

We liked Dilloway's novel so much from the beginning that we asked her to write a behind - the - book about taking inspiration from her mother's coming - of - age in wartime Japan.

A coming of age story in an eerily altered world, Age of Miracles is a well written, easily read novel about how life goes age story in an eerily altered world, Age of Miracles is a well written, easily read novel about how life goes Age of Miracles is a well written, easily read novel about how life goes on.