Sentences with phrase «away at a novel»

He's the standard analogue man in an increasingly digital world; his books long out - of - print, Leonard doesn't take freelance gigs writing advertising copy because he deems it an objectionable compromise; he instead pecks away at a novel he's been working on for more than a decade, and enjoys simple get - togethers with his adult daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor, fantastic).

Not exact matches

At the same time one says that The Violent Bear It Away is a religious novel with a vengeance, and that the supernatural appears to be everywhere evident in it, one must also say that it is thoroughly parabolic — the supernatural never obtrudes.

For the novel's real hero, Lancelot, at his worst anyway, they are little more than a near occasion of sin: «I have been away in strange and desert places, sometimes quite alone, sometimes in a boat with nobody but God and the whistling sea,» he tells Arthur after his failure with the Grail.

Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander), who also directed Ford to success a year before in the Best Picture - nominated Witness, directs this Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Affliction) adaptation of the Paul Theroux novel, casting Ford as Allie Fox, a disgruntled American inventor who gets so pissed off at the loss of what he believes is a dying America, he decides to pack up his bags and family, taking them to the rain forests of South America to live a life away from civilization, and the threat of nuclear annihilation he believes is imminent.

Synopsis & Cast: Based on the immensely acclaimed Jonathan Franzen novel (which was the subject of controversy when the author declined an Oprah's Book Club endorsement), this is the story of the Lamberts, a midwestern family whose grown children have moved away to the East Coast, while the parents (Chris Cooper and Dianne Wiest) remain at home, dealing with the father's encroaching Parkinsons.

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

But in shades of The Shining, the classic Stephen King novel that was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick, the writer slowly begins to lose his marbles when unexplained occurrences begin to chip away at him.»

Based on a short novel by James Sallis, it stars Gosling as an unnamed young man — called «The Driver» in the credits — whose skill at automobile stunt work and get - away driving blends into his attachment with a pretty young wife and mother (Carey Mulligan) with increasingly bloody consequences.

When we first meet Willis» character, Paul Kersey, a surgeon here, an architect in the original film and the 1972 novel written by Bruce Garfield, he has the perfect life, a loving, if ultimately disposable, wife, Lucy (Elisabeth Shue, badly underused, as expected), a talented, soccer - playing daughter, Jordan Kersey (Camila Morrone), months away from starting college at her dream school, New York University, and a well - paying, high - status career saving lives at a Chicago hospital.

While the truly original sets and costumes are worthy of the novel, the producers seem to have made a decision halfway through that the movie is going to become too long to keep the attention of movie audiences and decided to cut away at the storyline.

Gerald's Game Year: 2017 Director: Mike Flanagan Director Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game trims fat, condenses and slims, stripping away some of the odder quirks of Stephen King's novel to get at the heart of themes underneath.

As words fall away for Winston, the hapless protagonist of the novel, as his consciousness is narrowed to the vocabulary of Newspeak, he finds himself unable to think, remember, to «fix his mind on any one subject for more than a few minutes at a time.»

The Mockingbird Next Door By Marja Mills Penguin • $ 17 • ISBN 9780143127666 With the publication of Harper Lee's newly discovered novel, Go Set a Watchman, just two months away, this controversial portrait of the author and her sister, Alice, at home in Monroeville, Alabama, is especially timely.

The novel tells the story of Flip, an American girl away at boarding school in Switzerland, and her unexpected love for Paul, a French boy.

I will frequently get an idea for a book that I'm unable to develop into a complete novel - at least not right away.

At 30 - 60 cents, it's always felt (to me) that you can get more out of giving the novel away for free (basically using it as a loss leader to encourage sales of other books, an established and effective technique for many authors publishing series).

(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness about self - published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self - published book competitions, and I read the * entire * book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.

I've been pounding away on novel revisions for a few weeks, while at the same time still trying to get a couple of short stories out the door.

I responded that our reviewer had loved the novel, then I filed the name of the book away at the bottom of my TBR.

The father - son relationship is at the heart of this powerful novel told in the immediate voice of 17 - year - old Neil Garvin who blames his abusive, hard - drinking father for driving Neil's mother away.

At $ 150 it blows away the more expensive Pandigital Novel, which is very similar from a hardware perspective.

How to Walk Away is Katherine Center at her very best — a masterpiece of a novel that is both hopeful and hilarious; truthful and wise; tender and brave.

Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes (640 pages) First - time author Karl Marlantes tackles some tough subjects — racism among the troops, for one — in his Vietnam novel, Matterhorn.What makes this novel so irresistible is Marlantes» skill at peeling away the many layers of truth in combat.

While it's true that multinational companies are greedily chipping away at Freo's uniqueness, Winton still manages to shine light on the city's many charms, such as the small diners that locals frequent and the beautiful beaches, giving it a starring role in the novel.

Every morning for three years, before leaving for her job as an editor at Simon & Schuster, Walker was typing away on her first novel.

Pop - music fanatic Rob, owner of a vintage record shop in London, whiles away his days by engaging in endless rounds of list making (best music to play at a funeral: «Many Rivers to Cross,» Jimmy Cliff), but it's his literate, painfully honest riffs on romantic humiliation and heartbreak that make this first novel so special.

I dreamed of it, fantasized about it, but even as I walked away from a law practice to write my first novel, the decision was based on an undeniable need to at least try.

I was hooked by this novel right away and was rooting for it throughout the first third, as it kept holding out the good stuff on me and deferring the true introduction of the charismatic man at its heart.

After Roberta's untimely death from cancer at age 46, he put the unfinished novel away in a closet.

Every November writers all over the world clack away at their kekyboards to complete the first draft of a 50k word novel in one month.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

Lately she has been bitten by the writing bug and feels a bit like a writing addict (where had it been all her life) and with the little time she has each week she has been scribbling away at a screenplay, the skeleton of a novel and a collection of memoirs / letters to her boys.

Hazel Longuet submitted Writing Tips: 10 Most Pinned Articles on Writing from my Pinterest Feed posted at Novel Experience, saying, «For the last year I've been squirreling away high quality content on writing and publishing, and storing my little nuggets of gold in Pinterest.

At the moment I'm two months away from publication of my début novel, so I'm definitely in sales mode.

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At the time of this podcast, I was in the middle of reading one of his novels, and it was hard to tear myself away (sorry Simon).

My own reaction at the time was more guarded, noting that manga adaptations of graphic novels didn't thrill me all that much, manga being a separate medium and all, and I hoped this wouldn't lead Tokyopop away from the Japanese product.

When he's not hacking away at his next novel, he works with entrepreneurs and investors to build ridiculously awesome new technology companies.

If the ultimate goal is the protection of your furniture, this novel design doesn't rely on attracting your cats away from it, but protects right at the site of their interest.

For the first few moments, the sheer thrill of taking the Captain's chair in VR, looking around you to see crew members all working away at their stations, and issuing your first commands is all wonderful and novel.

The blog lead to a novel, and over at How Appealing, Howard Bashman will be holding a contest to give away two free copies.

Incidentally, Dershowitz claims at 5:59 that the hit show How to Get Away with Murder is a ripoff of his novel, Reversal of Fortune.

Asus this week revealed a rather novel solution for people with multiple monitor setups to deal with those pesky little bezels that claw away at your sense of immersion.

Novels to escape into and to transport you away to magical lands and mystical times, non fiction to make you wonder at the world.