Sentences with phrase «epic war novel»
Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line.
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Official Synopsis: Based on Frank Miller's latest graphic novel Xerxes, and told in the breathtaking visual style of the blockbuster «300,» this new chapter of the epic saga takes the action to a fresh battlefield — on the sea — as Greek general Themistokles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war.
Adapted by Rees and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, it is a period epic spanning about five years, from America's 1941 entry into World War II to the immediate postwar era.
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 the screenplay of the eagerly anticipated final film in George Lucas's epic saga, bestselling Star Wars author Matthew Stover's novel crackles with action, captures the iconic characters in all their complexity, and brings a space opera masterpiece full circle in stunning style.
This sweeping romantic epic, based on the Ian McEwan novel of the same name (which is worth a read, though you won't find the book on Netflix), sends Robbie (James McAvoy) off to fight in World War II, and he finds himself in the middle of Britain's retreat from the Germans on the shores of Dunkirk Beach.
Set in post-World War Two - era Mississippi, it scans like an old - fashioned family epic with clear literary origins (Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel).
The movie is based on Hillary Jordan's novel of the same name and follows the unlikely friendship of two World War Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic&raquWar Two veterans, one white and one black, as they return from war and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic&raquwar and find common ground as their families face difficulty in their local community, and the actress signed up for the film in the hope the director could turn the story into something «big and epic».
My debut epic fantasy novel, The Black God's War, was released on August 1st, 2011.
Moses Siregar III is the author of The Black God's War, a dramatic epic fantasy novel inspired by Homer; you can sample it for 99 cents at Amazon or Smashwords.
We also have: Lisa Silverthorne's Isabel's Tears, a novel about a magical inn; Dayle A. Dermatis» Waking the Witch, a gothic mystery novel with some paranormal elements and a light romance; Kelly Washington's The Pale Waters, the first novella in a four - part epic journey; Erica Lyon's Hot Waters, a steamy sea adventure novel; and New York Times bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch's The War and After, five historical fantasy stories of magic and revenge.
Since I get to be king for a day (host and judge of # 5MinuteFiction), this week's contest will be fantasy - flavored and The Black God's War - flavored (that's my epic fantasy novel that just came out this month).
Winslow's riveting epic about the ongoing Mexican drug wars blends fact and fiction to tell the incredible, tragic story of the blood - drenched reign of the notorious El Chapo (Adán Barrera in the novel).
Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath.
I've been working on an epic fantasy novel this summer, tentatively titled The Weather War.
Like Haruki Murakami in Hard - Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1991), Chabon plays with the conventions of the Chandlerian private - eye novel, but that's only one ingredient in an epic - scale alternate - history saga of Jewish life since World War II.
The project will start out with 13 works which will include Heiji Monogatari, a war epic composed in the 13th century, Kappa, a novel by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Tono Monogatari by Kunio Yanagita.
Patroclus narrates the novel, and the strong bond between him and Achilles provides an intimate counterpoint to the epic chronicle of the Trojan War.
Brilliantly inventive and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a revealing modern epic spanning Kingston in the»70s, the crack wars in»80s New York, and a radically altered Jamaica in the»90s.
- Kirkus «An epic, extraordinary novel about love, beauty, and war, Temple of a Thousand Faces is sure to please.»
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Here's the set - up for Moses Siregar's The Black God's War [The Complete Novel], just $ 2.00 on Kindle: Against the backdrop of epic warfare and the powers of ten mysterious gods, Lucia struggles to understand The Black One.
Epic Games for providing copies of Geard of War 2 along with stunning posters, graphic novels and T - shirts!
According to Finkel, «a personal sense of crisis» brought on by the current political climate in the U.S. pervades Tomorrow is Another Day, which was named after the last line of Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War novel Gone with the Wind.