Sentences with phrase «coming of age novels»

It's particularly interesting for me, since that's what I write — contemporary coming of age novels.

The other route — which is particularly favored for coming of age novels is of course to write those bricks and mortar.

Introducing FAWN, a delicious new scent for the season inspired by coming of age novels — how memorable and lingering they are — and the sweet innocence and underlying sexuality of growing up.

Stephen is probably best known as the author of the coming of age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower, one of the most successful new books in the last few years.

When I first heard that Andrew Haigh's next feature was going to be an adaptation of Willy Vlautin's coming of age novel «Lean On Pete», I was immediately compelled to pick up the book.

As students read this coming of age novel, they will have a different reading strategy to focus on during each chapter.

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

I think finding a well written coming of age novel that features a female protagonist is a rare event.

In this powerful coming of age novel, Laleh Khadivi presents a tragic and dark side of the American Dream, as the US born son of Iranian immigrants considers abandoning his privileged life in California and moving to Syria.

In many ways Parrot and Olivier is also a coming of age novel, with each of the two men reaching maturity in the New World.

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

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Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jon Breen makes the bold claim that Christian crime fiction has come of age in the novels of J. Mark Bertrand.

In the classic manner of the coming - of - age novel, Harry struggles mightily to figure out his own identity and to discover and claim his rightful place in society — a society that more or less resists that claim, both innocently (in the effort to protect him) and maliciously.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

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

Based on a novel by Richard Peck called Don't Look and It Won't Hurt, Allison Anders's melodramatic coming - of - age tale Gas Food Lodging takes place in Laramie, NM, a small town right off the highway.

Based on the coming - of - age novel by Joe Dunthorne, «Submarine» centers on the crisis of cynicism vs. sentimentality that often faces us at a formative age.

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.

The latest outstanding, memorable, fall - in - love - with coming - of - age drama of Sundance 2013 is The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt of Smashed from last year's Sundance, written by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter of 500 Days of Summer, adapting from Tim Tharp's novel.

After years in development, things seem to be moving forward on Jason Reitman «s adaptation of Joyce Maynard «s coming - of - age novel «Labor Day,» with professional kiteboarder - turned - actor Maika Monroe the latest addition to its ever - growing cast.

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.

Based on André Aciman's 2007 novel of the same name, Call Me By Your Name is a queer coming - of - age love story that's as languorous and seductive as its North Italian setting.

Heller's adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel is an emotionally honest and refreshingly liberated coming - of - age tale set in the golden - hued and drug - soaked San Francisco of the 1970s.

Jordan Peele's social satire horror «Get Out» and James Ivory's adaptation of the coming - of - age novel «Call Me By Your Name» have won the top honors from the Writers Guild of America.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the highly anticipated coming - of - age drama based on the novel of the same name by Stephen Chbosky.

The occasion was the New York Film Festival screening of Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me by Your Name, the film adaptation, by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, of André Aciman's coming - of - age novel.

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.

«Call Me By Your Name» is a coming - of - age bisexual love story set in Italy in 1983, directed by Luca Guadagnino, based on André Aciman's novel and starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Little Women may be the ultimate aspirational coming - of - age tale and Louisa May Alcott's novel has been adapted again and again for the big and...

I Kill Giants faithfully adapts the graphic novel for a striking coming - of - age movie that blends magical realism with heartbreaking drama.

Now we watch him come of age as one of his most enduring characters, the intense, conflicted fighting machine Jason Bourne in a series based on Robert Ludlum's best selling novels.

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.

A first - generation Pakistani - British youth comes of age in the seventies in this rich 1993 mini-series adapted from Hanif Kureishi's novel by Kureishi and director Roger Michell.

A Sundance Film Festival hit, the coming - of - age story is based on the 2002 graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner.

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.

Other high - profile titles screening at the festival, which opens Friday, include «Ginger and Rosa,» filmmaker Sally Potter's coming - of - age drama with Elle Fanning; «Midnight's Children,» director Deepa Mehta's adaptation of the novel by Salman Rushdie, who wrote the screenplay; and «Frances Ha,» a black - and - white look at a young dancer directed by «The Squid...

Directed by Luca Guadagnino - and based on the novel of the same name by André Aciman - the forthcoming English - language coming - of - age drama premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January.

Though the film has a lesbian theme, it is more of a coming - of - age depiction of a rudderless young woman seeking her identity who finds herself, like Stephen Gordon in Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel, «The Well of Loneliness,» «like a soul that wakes up to find itself wandering, unwanted, between the spheres.»

Based on a graphic novel and short film by co-directors Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vázquez, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is a darkly comic, beautiful and haunting tale of coming of age in a world gone to ruin.

It is an adaptation, by James Ivory and Walter Fasano, of André Aciman's 2007 celebrated novel, described by the New York Times as «hot» and «a coming - of - age story, a coming - out story, a Proustian meditation on time and desire».

It was announced over the summer the Swiss Army Man star would direct Wildlife, based on Richard Ford «s coming - of - age novel.

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.

Ten Thousand Saints / U.S.A. (Directors: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Screenwriters: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)-- Based on the acclaimed novel, Ten Thousand Saints follows three lost kids and their equally lost parents as they come of age in New York's East Village in the era of CBGB, yuppies, and the tinderbox of gentrification that exploded into the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988.

Adapted from the Jesse Andrews young adult novel of the same name, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is a bittersweet coming - of - age adventure directed by Alfonso Gomez - Rejon (The Town That Dreaded Sundown).

His poignant coming - of - age romance — adapted by James Ivory from André Aciman's novel — enters Sunday's Academy Awards with four nominations, for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song.