Sentences with phrase «autobiographical novels»

Autobiographical novels and playing with history.

In fact, he's written a number of autobiographical novels as well as collections of poetry...

In the Classroom: As we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again).

Comic, shameful and deeply painful, the scene encapsulates the manic energy of the tremendous first instalment in David Nicholls's adaptation of Edward St Aubyn's five autobiographical novels.

In an autobiographical novel James McConkey describes the defining moment in the married life of Michael and Terry Warden.

(March 8, 2016) An autobiographical novel in which Leyner gives a reading in the food court of a mall.

Young Moroccan scribe Abdellah Taia moves into the director's seat with the screen version of his autobiographical novel» Salvation Army,» losing much of the texture in translation from pen to camera.

Based on the autobiographical novel by Jan Guillou and set in the mid-1950s, the film relates the experiences of a troubled young man who's enrolled into a hidebound private school.

Their daughter (Lily Collins)-- a precocious writer who's penned an autobiographical novel — has never forgiven Mom, though, and prefers one - night stands to the romantic overtures of a college classmate (Logan Lerman) with a dying mother.

Sadly, the film, which was adapted by The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius from Wiazemsky's autobiographical novel Un An Après, seems more interested in pastiching Godard's own movies than saying anything interesting about the couple.

Australian director Jonathan Teplitzky's mystery / drama focuses heavily on the torture and recovery themes in Eric Lomax's 1995 autobiographical novel.

Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's Pulitzer - winning autobiographical novel is up for Best Musical, Book, Score, Best Lead Actor in a Musical and Best Lead Actress in a Musical.

Polanski surrogate Delphine (Emmanuelle Seigner) is enjoying great success with her new autobiographical novel but also burned out from the promo tour.

Hoult admirably channels the confident, untested artist who is scared by the potential length of his own autobiographical novel (and then elated with its breakout success).

One Day You'll Understand (Unrated) Holocuast docudrama, based on Jerome Clement's autobiographical novel, set in the Eighties, recounting a Frenchman's (Hippolyte Girardot) obsession with determining what happened to his Jewish grandparents who perished in a concentration camp during World War II.

«Behind The Candelabra» Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel of the same name, the picture is a behind - the - scenes look at the tempestuous relationship between legendary entertainer Liberace and Scott Thorson, his younger lover.

and Intolerable Cruelty... Ryan Gosling is planning to produce and star in a Busby Berkeley biopic based on Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley by Jeffrey Spivak... Returning once again to the workaday lives of North Africans in modern France, Philippe Faucon will make Fatima, an adaptation of Prière à la Lune, an autobiographical novel by Fatima Elayoubi about the life of a cleaning lady raising two teenage daughters born in France...

Taken from Hillary Jordan's somewhat autobiographical novel, this sumptuous picture centers on two, intertwined families.

Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel and a screenplay by Tom Stoppard, the film tells the story of a British schoolboy — played by future Batman Christian Bale — separated from his parents during Japan's invasion of Shanghai during World War II.

The company also presents «Two Men in Suits,» actor - director Josef Bierbichler's adaptation of his autobiographical novel about a rural Bavarian community, tracing some 70 years of cross-generational German history, including the two world wars.

Guided by Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel, he rejected the India of exotic action and spectacle to make a medit...

Gifted director Laurent Cantet began with a best - selling autobiographical novel by a teacher, Francois Begaudeau.

Teachers who recommend or assign the diary or other accounts told from a child's perspective, like Johanna Reiss's autobiography, The Upstairs Room, or Judith Kerr's autobiographical novel, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, should do so only after some basic Holocaust history has been taught.

When someone asked, I referred to Kaufman's Hill as an «autobiographical novel.»

This is the third part of a six - part autobiographical novel by the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard in which a character named Karl Ove recounts in mesmerizing detail how he navigated the vicissitudes of growing up, leaving home, marrying twice, having children and becoming a writer.

This autobiographical novel manages to make the spiritual realm of gods and eternal consciousness attractive to a heathen like me while detailing a very 21st - century experience.

But even this talented writer has had projects that ended in failure: In a 2008 BookPage interview, Dubus told us that he had been working on an autobiographical novel, but kept throwing away drafts.

Set in the era of World War II and McCarthyism, Miller's highly autobiographical novel never, Pearl writes, feels dated or awkward.

A PORTRAIT began life in 1903 as Stephen Hero - a projected 63 - chapter autobiographical novel in a realistic style.

A new, illustrated edition of her autobiographical novel, A Glimpse Of Eternal Snows (Bradt; # 12), is out now

-- Edmund White * Author of the autobiographical novel L'Amant, the screenplay Hiroshima mon -LSB-...]

In April, I'm most looking forward to seeing the world through Alexander Chee's eyes via his book of essays, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (HMH Books).

In 2007, she published her first autobiographical novel, The Girl Who Fell to Earth (Harper Collins Perennial).

Since she was 5, Cochrane has collaborated with her father, George Cochrane, on the 24 - chapter autobiographical novel Long Time Gone.

Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel tells the story of a fictionalized Asheville, N.C..

Not exact matches

Thompson grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home and his acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel Blankets tells not only the story of his first love but also his coming - to - terms with the Christian tradition of his family, culminating in a crisis of faith.

Stephanie Danler insists her debut novel, Sweetbitter, isn't autobiographical.

The young woman — the autobiographical creation of actual feisty Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi — is sketched in the same bold illustration style that characterizes Satrapi's internationally adored graphic novels about her life during Iran's Islamic revolution.

Telling that eye opening tale is the woman she grew up to be — Marjane Satrapi, the author and illustrator of several internationally admired autobiographical graphic novels.

The Piano Teacher, based on a novel by Elfriede Jelinek (apparently largely autobiographical, which is disturbing news in itself), is much more classical in style, though as before it demands considerable input from the viewer: Haneke deliberately avoids making any comments on the film's action, letting the audience judge for themselves.

The subject of this biopic, the titular French novelist, wrote the autobiographical Claudine novels, only to have her husband take the credit.

The film follows Knightley's Colette as she writes her loosely autobiographical Claudine novels, which become huge best - sellers in Paris, but begins increasingly frustrated since her domineering husband (Dominic West) takes authorial credit.

Carol (née The Price of Salt) is the most autobiographical of Patricia Highsmith's novels, dealing so frankly with her own lesbian experiences that she originally had it published under a pseudonym.

The temptation to brand the film as «autobiographical» is hard to resist: Baumbach did grow up in Brooklyn in the 1970's, one of four siblings, to a pair of parents who both wrote for a living (his father Jonathan wrote novels and short fiction, while his mother Georgia Brown contributed regularly to the Village Voice).

The autobiographical story tells of Thompson (under the name Paul Kemp in the novel) in his 20s with failing ambitions of being a novelist, who finds himself working for a paper in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1960.

I've used Tupac's autobiographical poem «The Rose That Grew From Concrete» to teach students how to analyze poetry, and the young - adult novel Hip - Hop High School was added to our summer reading list to help students increase their SAT vocabulary.

The criminal eluding capture for just over one year, trying to disappear by making himself unmemorable; the writer tracking him years later, erasing himself to follow another person's journey, physical and emotional — a fascinating premise made all the more intriguing by the autobiographical elements of the novel.

In an autobiographical picture book that will remind many readers of Marjane Satrapi's memoir Persepolis (2003), Sís» latest, a powerful combination of graphic novel and picture book, is an account of his growing up in Czechoslovakia under Soviet rule.

You could probably say that the entire book is my attempt to understand what my mother was experiencing (not that there was anything autobiographical about the novel — I wanted to explore the effect of disease on characters and relationships).

Largely autobiographical in nature, the novel must have served as a cathartic release for Rattner who has said she painted over only some of the details in the story.