Sentences with phrase «fictional novel by»

The game, which is based on the fictional novel by the same name, will have the player investigating the strange happenings in the town of Posolsk where people have been disapearing and the dead bodies have been stacking up.

Adapted from the best - selling fictional novel by R.J. Palacio, Jacob Tremblay plays 10 - year - old Auggie — a boy afflicted by severe facial deformities caused by Treacher - Collins Syndrome — prompting his being homeschooled.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

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I've had several people ask if I would review The Shack, a fictional novel written by William P. Young.

Also, one book my wife and I read this past year which sounded eerily familiar to what we have personally experienced, was the fictional «novel» by Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman, So You Don't Want to Go to Church Anymore.

Sourdough (by Robin Sloan)-- A cute little fictional novel about a software engineer - turned - baker, thanks to a feisty sourdough starter that she is tasked with caring for.

All of the collection was inspiring by the fictional Colombian town in Gabriel Garcia - Marquez» novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Although it's not consistently creepy, the screenplay by Jane Goldman (Kick - Ass), adapted from Peter Ackroyd's novel, throws some true - life characters into the fictional mix, which combines with Nighy's performance to provide just enough intrigue.

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

King and his alternative persona Richard Bachman (responsible for schlockier novels like The Running Man) here find fictional proxies in the form of novelist Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), tormented by his violent alter ego George Stark, a leather - clad creep who begins violently murdering various of the writer's associates.

Its narrative was written by Pamuk, and it is the third part of the Nobel Prize winner's multimedia artwork that comprises a novel (Museum of Innocence, 2008) and a museum in Istanbul filled with «real» objects attributed to the novel's fictional characters.

Inherent Vice — based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon — is the latest from American writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson, this time brining his masterful skills to a 1970s - based fictional crime story filled with twisty turns, oddball characters, and lots of drug use.

Even worse, Alexandra is now having regular conversations with the fictional Alex Rover (also played by Butler) about her latest novel; she needs some assistance involving volcanoes, and when she sees a piece written by Jack about their island's volcano, she emails him for advice.

As Susan reads the fictional story over the course of a lonely weekend, she reminisces about her relationship with Tony and the unforgiveable betrayal that led to their divorce, haunted by the novel's thematic undercurrents of resentment and rage that play out like retribution for her own sins.

SPECTRE (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion) is a fictional global terrorist organisation featured in the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming, as well as the films and video games based on those novels.The group is led by evil genius and supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

These biographical beats are of the routine sort in Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald's screenplay (based on two books: the non-fiction work The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and the fictional novel Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena).

Fictional characters in a project workshop might be described in the same way as literary critic, Sheila Egoff, describes characters in many current teen novels: they are «defined by the terminology of pain.»

The novel's two plot lines, the story of the writer and that of the two lovers, are distinguished by bold - face type, while strikethroughs denote passages the fictional author has chosen to delete.

This lengthy novel by the acclaimed Jamaican author of The Book of Night Women (2009) is a densely imaginative fictional retelling of the 1976 assassination attempt on reggae superstar Bob Marley («The Singer») and its aftermath.

It seems a pity that readers might form such an opinion of Bock's fictional Bethune (and thus, to a greater or lesser extent, of the real Bethune) because of a fictional device - especially as, by the end of the novel, Bock gives sufficient reason to explain why Bethune would be apart from his daughter at this time.

As for his novel's title, Hornby says it has nothing to do with nudity: «It's comes from the title of the new, acoustic version of «Juliet,» the greatest album by his fictional musician, who's hoping to stage a comeback.»

I have favorite food - centered novels, such as The Secret of Everything by Barbara O'Neal, with its 100 Breakfasts Café in fictional Las Ladronas, New Mexico; and Angelina's Bachelors by Brian O'Reilly, which makes the author's beloved Philadelphia come alive through food.

The plot itself, the investigation of the murder of two black men in the ninth ward, hinges on familiar Burke tropes — the powerless caught in a web of circumstance; surprising acts of nobility from the least likely people; unfathomable evil prompting eruptions of Robicheaux's thinly suppressed rage — but the novel's power comes from the way it explores the tragedy of Katrina in a manner that is exactly in tune with the series, a kind of perfect storm brought together by the confluence of fictional and nonfictional realms.

I have favorite food - centered novels, such as The Secret of Everything by Barbara O'Neal, with its 100 Breakfasts Café in fictional Las Ladronas, New...

For instance, I recently finished reading the absolutely stunning novel Darktown by Thomas Mullen, a fictional account of the first black police officers to patrol Atlanta in 1948.

Those fictional grandparents are not by any stretch my grandparents, but the novel would not exist without their courage and charisma.

The timepieces that play a role in Honig's fictional novel were offered as tributes to Putin the autocrat, a bribe for attention or favor, a more corrupt intention than the Cloisonné liqueur set given to Richard Nixon by Brezhnev during the May, 1972 SALT talks.

The fragmented novel is presented as a collection of testimonies, recollections and interviews from a variety of sources, as brought together by a fictional editor.

Demetrios explores a complicated web of issues surrounding her intelligent protagonist in a summer full of changes, and she breathes life into fictional Creek View by populating the novel with eccentric yet familiar characters, from Skylar's closest friends to her boss Marge to Josh's unrelenting flirt of a brother.

In this saga of the common - law widow of a German farmer who finds her mission in life by impersonating a dead priest, Erdrich offers a new and remarkably rich chapter in her ongoing sequence of novels about Native American life on a fictional Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.

Not all fictional works, but especially novels where there is an audience that can discover it (zombies, romance, mystery — sure, some genres have more competition among books, but this is compensated for by having more readers), and where the book is pretty good.

He is within his own novel — summoned into the fictional world of Feldall's Keep by a spell he didn't write.

Kindle Nation readers have already helped to make Maryland lawyer Stephanie Ann «Sam» McRae one of the hottest hard - boiled fictional women in the Kindle Store by sending Debbi Mack's debut novel Identity Crisis — still just 99 cents!

While it might not be possible quite yet to experience the lives of the fictional heroes and heroines we've walked side by side through life with for a little while, and sometimes who'd want to (think of just about any character from a Stephen King novel).

Shadow of War just like its prequel Shadow of Mordor is set in the fictional environment of Middle - Earth which was conceptualised and created by J.R.R. Tolkien; providing the wondrous location for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings novels.

[4] In his catalog essay, the curator Jeffrey Weiss relates that the protagonist of a Katsusuke Miyauchi novel, seeking to lose his national identity and become stateless through constant travel, encounters a fictional On Kawara in the artist's hotel room and is deeply impressed by him, coming to think of «Kawara» as the very model of a rootless soul.

Jarmo Mäkilä is featured in the recently published fictional novel L'Art Des Interstices by the French painter, author and art critic Pierre Lamalattie.

The fictional AGWSF Greenhouse Effect has been created by taking out the taking out the cooling real greenhouse Water Cycle in a novel fictional version of a greenhouse.

A little - known blog, Shub Niggurath Climate — Shub Niggurath is a fictional deity in a 1928 fantasy novel by H.P. Lovecraft — posted RICO - teering: How climate activists «knew» they were going to pin the blame on Exxon, which exposed where the Strategy originated and who originated it.

Of the fictional works in this list, the Frankenstein story is retold best by Blade Runner, a movie that, like Shelley's novel, never feels dated no matter when it's viewed.