Sentences with phrase «age old novel»

Since it is based on an age old novel, story-wise there is not much deviation from previous installments, but it still manages to provide just enough change to entice player's curiosity and explore the branchable stories in order to see all the «what - if's.»

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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!

Quoting verses from a 3500 year old fiction novel written by bronze age goat herders... Here's one for you: «Luke, I am your father» Vader 5:24 - 26

The findings — gathered from just over 300 participants in three age groups averaging 8, 12 and 13 years old — have implications for marketers as well as parents navigating a world where children encounter cartoon characters in a variety of media, from books to graphic novels, TV shows, video games, movies and more.

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

The Aging Brain Care Medical Home, a novel population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults achieves significant health improvement for individuals with depression and also substantial stress reduction in family caregivers of dementia patients, according to a new study by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research and Eskenazi Health.

«This study is tremendously important given the aging of the population and our need to identify novel and effective interventions to reduce age - related cognitive and functional declines in older adults.»

Older adults who take a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, see age - related vascular changes reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks, according to new University...

She holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Aging & Immunity, and investigates how changes in the immune system of older adults and vulnerable populations predispose them to pneumonia infection.The aim of Dr. Bowdish's research at McMaster University is to develop novel preventative and therapeutic strategies that reduce the burden of pneumonia.

Analysis of exploration times during the test revealed significant object / age interaction (P = 0.0293, 3 - way ANOVA with age and treatment as between - subjects factors and object as within - subjects factors), indicative of preferential exploration of the object in the novel location by the younger animals and a lack of such preferential exploration in 20 - month - old mice.

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.

«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.

Based on the novel by Philip Roth, Indignation is set in 1951 and focuses on Marcus (Lerman), the 18 - year - old son of a kosher butcher in Newark who grapples with anti-Semitism, sexual repression and the escalating Korean War as he comes of age at a Midwestern Lutheran college.

Starting Out in the evening (PG - 13 for sex, expletives and brief nudity) Adapted from the novel of the same name by Brian Morton, this drama revolves around the May - December relationship of a 24 year - old grad student (Lauren Ambrose) And the aging author (Frank Langella) whose works are the subject of her master's thesis.

Based on the novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name tells a kind of gay coming - of - age story, with 17 - year - old Elio (Chalamet) falling deeply and intensely for grad student Oliver (Hammer), who's staying at Elio's family villa in northern Italy for one summer in the mid -»80s.

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.»

Based on a novel by Mary O'Hara, this Wild West coming - of - age story will gallop away with the hearts of horse lovers, both young and old.

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.

Based on the 1938 Winifred Watson novel, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is an age - old formula fairy tale of someone on the bottom making her way to the top through character, karma and good intentions.

Adapted by screenwriter James Ivory from a 2007 novel by André Aciman, the sexy new film — a coming - of - age story of first love that has already racked up multiple awards — has been criticized in some quarters for its central relationship, a summer tryst between Elio (Timothée Chalamet), a 17 - year - old boy, and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24 - year - old man.

For all the controversy over the explicit sex in writer - director Abdellatif Kechiche's three - hour adaptation of Julie Maroh's graphic novel «Blue Is the Warmest Color,» the film is ultimately just a sensitive and honest coming - of - age story, showing how a teenager discovers who she is with the help of her older lesbian girlfriend, then has to find herself again when they drift apart.

Jasper Jones (Film Movement), adapted from Craig Silvey's best - selling coming - of - age novel, is the story of Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), a bookish 14 - year - old boy who lives in fictional Corrigan, a small rural Australian town.

Based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name tells the story of Elio (Best Actor contender Timothée Chalamet), a 17 - year old whose academia parents rent an Italian villa every summer and every summer rent out to a young, college - age lodger to...

John Frankenheimer's nightmarish adaptation of David Ely's be-careful-what-you-wish-for novel has a weary, middle - aged businessman (John Randolph) buy out of his old life and be transformed into Rock Hudson, only to find that renewed youth isn't satisfying.

Based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, «Lean on Pete» tells the story of 15 - year - old Charley, a lonely boy who finds friendship in an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete.

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.

Inside Out and Back Again A favorite among teachers and students, this poignant 2013 coming - of - age novel in verse centers on 10 - year - old Hà, who loses her father and must flee her home in Vietnam when Saigon falls, in 1975.

Doig's latest historical novel set in the fictional Two Medicine Country in northern Montana stars an affable bartender and his precocious 12 - year - old son, whose coming - of - age takes place in a saloon.

The graphic novels below tell elemental coming - of - age stories with plenty to offer older teen readers, so it's worth it to reconsider whether they belong exclusively on the adult shelves.

A coming - of - age story and a tale of a frightening possible future, this gem of a novel features 12 - year - old Julia, who is living in a world that is coming to an end as the earth's rotation gradually slows.

Seventeen - year - old Odella, an Icelandic Canadian, confronts the secrets behind her mother's abandonment in this lyrical coming - of - age novel.

In this haunting novel, Kiesbye explores the age old question: are the sins of the fathers really passed on to their sons?

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Feb. 2011; Viking Books): A novel about an ages - old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious alchemical manuscript that draws them together — this book provides a dose of the paranormal for the adult crowd and was one of the hottest titles on offer at the 2009 Frankfurt Book Fair.

The ending of the novel is strong as well; Hornung delicately weaves a thread of modernity (and the complexities that it brings) into the age - old questions about human nature, and it seems a shame that the book ends shortly after it hits its stride.

It's an irresistibly charming novel about age - old institutions: marriage and parenting.

Ultimately, Lisa See's new novel addresses universal themes: the bonds of friendship, the power of words, and the age - old desire of women to be heard.

I think in today's world someone in Patrick's position might have reacted differently and gotten the authorities involved when he knew her age and that she had been seduced by an older... - Navy Mom Do you think the novel is more effective told from the individual points of view.

Nonetheless, Dog Boy finds its strength in Hornung's attention to descriptive detail... [and] the ending of the novel is strong as well; Hornung delicately weaves a thread of modernity (and the complexities that it brings) into the age - old questions about human nature, and it seems a shame that the book ends shortly after it hits its stride.

I'd think older children (say, over the age of 10) would find this novel very enjoyable (despite its occasionally gruesome content)-- as would any of us older kids just looking for a couple of hours of escapism.

This phrase, uttered by a 90 — year - old dressmaker in my fashion - inspired debut novel, Nine Women, One Dress, is his answer to an age old question.

This short novel — a Man Booker Prize nominee — takes listeners deep inside the suffering heart of a woman, now in old age, recounting the prodigious grief produced by her son's tragic death.

Inspired by the traditional «wonder tales» of the East, Salman Rushdie's novel is a masterpiece about the age - old conflicts that remain in today's world.

Lyrical and heartbreaking, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age - old conflict we might think we understand - one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can't go home again.

The main thread of the novel follows young Vietnam vet Llewelyn Moss as he runs to evade the ex-Special Forces agent, Chigurh, employed by the cartel whose money he's appropriated; but it's also the story of aging lawman, Sheriff Bell (the moral opposite of Chigurh), who is coming to terms with the fact that there seems to be a new breed of bad guy on the lose these days, against which old style lawmen like himself can not compete.

Deborah began writing romance novels on her mother's old green Smith Corona typewriter at the age of 11.

Pratchett's third YA novel set in Discworld, his best yet, finds apprentice - witch Tiffany Aching fumbling into the role of an age - old goddess, creating a cosmic disturbance that she must correct.

By probing the mind and heart of a man in extreme old age, Walter Mosley has produced what might be his most daring novel yet.

In Angelina Mirabella's winning (ha) debut novel, 17 - year - old Leonie is stuck in Philly, waiting tables and caring for her aging father.

Set against the backdrop of the globalization crisis, Edmundo Paz Soldán's latest novel is a modern chapter in the age - old fight between oppressed and oppressor.