Sentences with phrase «city life in novels»

This relief pays homage to the French writer Louis - Ferdinand Céline, whose unflinching portrayals of city life in novels such as Mort à crédit (Death on the Installment Plan, 1936) provided Oldenburg with an example of the experience of the street expressed directly through art.

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Ten Danes living in cities were colonized or infected with a novel strain of poultry - associated MRSA, a type of livestock - associated MRSA never identified before.

There's nothing in Tolstoy's novel that suggests such an approach; after all, the book's realism in depicting Russian city and farming life, and in the richness of its character studies, is one of its defining features.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

Lehane's new novel, «Live By Night,» takes place in both Prohibition - era Boston and Tampa's Ybor City.

Based on a novel by mystery writer Ruth Rendell, Live Flesh begins in flashback with pregnant Isabel Plaza Caballero (Penelope Cruz) giving birth on a Madrid city bus.

Based on the novel by Caren Lissner, Bel Powley (The Diary of Teenage Girl) plays the title character of Carrie, a teenage genius from England living on her own in New York City.

Based on Richard Morgan's 2002 hard - boiled sci - fi detective novel, this 10 - episode series is set in a far future San Francisco — the city of Sam Spade — in a time when personality is stored in removable gizmos that can be traded from body to body, enabling people with means to live forever.

Patricia Highsmith says YES, in her 1952 romance novel «The Price of Salt», describing life in New York City in the 1950's.

They read a novel about life in urban America, they write letters to city council members and state representatives, the compile statistics to support their arguments in their letters; in short, they use their discipline - based skills of scientific inquiry, math, literacy, social studies and health to do what people in the real world do — synthesize the skills and knowledge in a meaningful way.

Tsang currently is writing a young adult novel focused on Asian - Americans living in the city.

That said, Álvaro Enrigue does live in New York City and we did big events with him for his novel Sudden Death and they were absolutely terrific.

YA author Georgia Clark's first adult novel, The Regulars, drops readers effortlessly into the lives of three 20 - something best friends trying to make it in New York City: Evie, an aspiring writer and diehard feminist who hates her job at a trashy magazine; Willow, an ethereal and troubled aspiring artist; and Krista, the confident trainwreck of a best friend so many of us have had.

The novel centers on Amy, Karen, Jill and Roberta, four women who live in (and around) New York City and who, for various reason, have decided to stay home with their kids.

Like Clockers (1992) and his two other books set in fictional Dempsey, N.J. - Freedomland (1998) and Samaritan (2002)- Lush Life paints a richly textured portrait of city dwellers that would make Balzac and Dickens proud: The novel is populated with quick - witted cops, underprivileged teenage criminals, ethically challenged officials, and overworked and long - suffering average joes.

After the Dempsey novels, Lush Life marks a return to New York City, as it were, for Price, a 59 - year - old native of the Bronx whose first novel, The Wanderers (1974), portrayed gang life in that boroLife marks a return to New York City, as it were, for Price, a 59 - year - old native of the Bronx whose first novel, The Wanderers (1974), portrayed gang life in that borolife in that borough.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this is an illuminating, enveloping historical novel about the lives of a French girl, who fled occupied Paris during WWII and is living in Saint - Malo, and a young German soldier, sent to the same French city in pursuit of spies conspiring against the Third Reich.

Now fourteen years have passed, and in acclaimed author David Hewson's stunning new crime novel the heart - wrenching case has come back to life as Detective Nic Costa and his fellow investigators search through layers of their city's history — for a killer leaving a trail of bodies, lust, and revenge.

Everything about this debut novel is big; from the bidding war between ten publishers which led to an advance of nearly $ 2 million to its 944 page length and its pantheon of vivid characters who live in the New York City of the 1970s.

He is married and lives in Chicago where he has recently completed his second novel, At the City's Edge (Jan 2008).

The Best Places in Phoenix to Write Your Novel Phoenix is not only a gorgeous city to live, but one that is perfect to support your fiction - writing endeavors.

«Daum brings a crisp, wisecracking voice to her novel about Lucinda, a life - style correspondent for a morning television show, who, in search of a more interesting life, leaves New York for Prairie City, a fictional Midwestern town.»

The novel is alternately told from there different perspectives: June Han, who is orphaned as an 11 - year - old during the Korean War, then eventually moves to New York City after living in an orphanage in Yongin; Hector Brennan, an American GI who works at the orphanage then becomes a janitor in New Jersey; and Sylvie Tanner, the wife of a missionary who helps run the orphanage.

The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions.

Eleanor Henderson, TEN THOUSAND SAINTS (Ecco) In her vibrant debut, a sweeping coming - of - age novel set against the pulsing New York City punk scene of the late 1980s, Eleanor Henderson brings to life both a set of achingly real characters and the unique time in which they liveIn her vibrant debut, a sweeping coming - of - age novel set against the pulsing New York City punk scene of the late 1980s, Eleanor Henderson brings to life both a set of achingly real characters and the unique time in which they livein which they lived.

A dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way — and not — in New York City.

She, her husband, and their son now live in Old City, Philadelphia, where she is at work on her second novel.

In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 19city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 19City in the 1970in the 1970s.

She not only lives and works in the city she loves but has used London as the setting for her first four novels.

From a writer «of near - miraculous perfection» (The New York Times Book Review) and «a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation» (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor's Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way — and not — in New York City.

Epitaph is a follow - up to her 2011 novel, Doc, which traced the paths of the true - life Western icons Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp through the duo's time in Dodge City, Kansas.

A richly drawn, brilliantly observed novel of fate and fortune — of innocence and experience, seduction and self - invention; of ambition, including literary ambition; of glamour, disaster, and promise — The Emperor's Children is a tour de force that brings to life a city, a generation, and the way we live in this moment.

Fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following Updraft (2015) and Cloudbound (2016), set in a city of living bone.

My novels are set primarily in inner city Dublin but it is a version of it that is tinged with my inevitable nostalgia from living in the UK for the last 15 years.

Henning Mankell himself lived in Ystad during the 1980s and chose the town as background for the Wallander novels since it is a border city.

«[Commissario Guido Brunetti] is the perfect hero for Leon's minimal, almost lyrical writing style... As usual in Leon's novels, the frank depiction of the darker aspects of life in modern Venice sits right alongside some of the most enchanting descriptions of the city in contemporary fiction.»

She is currently working on her third novel in which the heroine follows the love of her life to live in a city in northern England.

- One of the most beloved novels of our time, Richard Adams's «Watership Down» takes us to a world we have never truly seen: to the remarkable life that teems in the fields, forests and riverbanks far beyond our cities and towns.

The exhibition included his defining creation, the graphic novel Soft City, which encapsulates a generation's disenchantment with capitalism and life in the modern cCity, which encapsulates a generation's disenchantment with capitalism and life in the modern citycity.

After a brief, unsuccessful stay in New York City, they went to Canada, where they lived in poverty for three years in a run - down hotel in Toronto hotel, living off his paltry earnings as an artist - an experience which he fictionalized in his 1954 novel Self - Condemned.

The recently released Ready Player One movie did not include some of the «story - living» live action role playing scenes that were included within the novel, but Ernest Cline was definitely attuned to the trends towards immersive narratives when his novel came out in 2011, which is the year that the Punchdrunk immersive theater production Sleep No More opened up in New York City.