Sentences with phrase «fictionalized novels»

In addition to original insights gleaned from Snowden and other real - life sources, Stone and Fitzgerald turned to two books about Snowden: The Snowden Files by British journalist Luke Harding (who co-authored another book that led to the WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate); and the fictionalized novel Time of the Octopus by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who represents Snowden in Russia.

Hutton's lightly fictionalized novel tells the story of Ricky Anywar's capture by the Lord's Resistance Army in 1989 and the 2006 rescue of Samuel, an 11 - year - old LRA soldier.

Not exact matches

«Other People's Money» by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, 2011) is to the novel what the wonderful «Margin Call» is to film — a fictionalized but convincing account of high finance and the crisis of 2008.

Currently, novels written by evangelicals tend toward the propagandistic (even to the extent of fictionalizing Bible stories and foretelling the Second Coming) and away from the artful.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

Presented as a novel, the book is really a collection of short stories revolving around Margaret Sargent, a lightly fictionalized version of McCarthy.

Their work is not to be confused with the fictionalized conspiracy theories of Dan Brown's best - selling novel The Da Vinci Code, but their popular success is not unrelated to his.

Wakefield's best - known novel is Starting Over, a fictionalized autobiography which was made into a successful motion picture with Burt Reynolds playing Wakefield.

Like Ofelia's journey in Pan's Labyrinth, it sees childhood as the blueprint for how adults might aspire to be the heroes of their own lives, and so it finds young Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) jealously hoarding his stash of highly - fictionalized penny novels (of the sort W.W. Beauchamp was writing on English Bob in another western touchstone, Unforgiven) about his hero James under his bed with other sundry relics of his youth.

Portraying the tricky role of Einar / Lili in Tom Hooper's adaptation of David Ebershoff's 2000 novel «The Danish Girl,» a fictionalized account of the story, Tom Hooper cast Eddie Redmayne, whom he had directed previously in «Les Misérables» (2012).

I suspect novelist Peter Ackroyd, whose 1994 novel Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem (aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) this is based on, wanted to fictionalize the Jack the Ripper killings (which occurred just a few years later) to comment on the numerous injustices of Victorian culture, which unfortunately still resonate today.

The details: An adaptation of David Ebershoff's novel, itself a fictionalized re-telling of the life of Lili Elbe, the transgender artist and model who became one of the first people to receive sex reassignment surgery.

The story is a fictionalized look at the writer's last days, when he embarks upon a search for a killer who may be copying events from Poe's novels.

I tore urgently through the book's outlandish chapters, each one crammed with anecdotes that, despite reading like a novel, were simply too absurd to have been fictionalized.

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Despite being a somewhat fictionalized version of her own life, the novels read like gospel truth to her fans — our reviewer Amy Scribner probably wasn't the only one to be shocked when she realized what section they were shelved in: «Did that mean that Laura Ingalls Wilder — whose braids and spunk I spent the better part of my childhood emulating — hadn't really almost starved during the long winter, or fought with nasty Nellie Oleson, or fallen in love with Almanzo?»

The New York Times ArtsBeat Blog wrote that this novel will be «a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus that will differ from the version presented in the New Testament.»

Euphoria By Lily King Grove • $ 16 • ISBN 9780802123701 With a richness of themes that is likely to make it a book club favorite, King's dazzling fourth novel fictionalizes the real - life love triangle of three prominent anthropologists in 1930s New Guinea: Margaret Mead, her then - husband Reo Fortune and her future husband, Gregory Bateson.

Told in multiple voices, Engle's richly metaphorical novel - in - verse is a fictionalized biography of the nineteenth - century Cuban abolitionist poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula.

Verdict: 5 Stars One of the genres that is gaining popularity and attention is the fictionalized biography, a novel retelling of the information that history does actually remember about notable people and events.

Having plumbed the archives for information about the nineteenth - century dancing sensation known as Juba, Myers pieces together a fictionalized account of his extraordinary life in this posthumous novel.

My most popular historical fiction novel, Target Churchill, centers on a fictionalized Soviet conspiracy to assassinate Churchill in order to prevent him from delivering his «Iron Curtain» speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946.

One of the genres that is gaining popularity and attention is the fictionalized biography, a novel retelling of the information that history does actually remember about notable people and events.

Osborne's novel was born out of his own experience working in the Middle East as a volunteer aid worker; while completely fictionalized, the setting that was so «tired» according to the industry is one that had a profound impact on the author's life.

Although the specifics about the Minneapolis Police Department's operation were conveniently fictionalized for the sake of the story, the bravery and decency of the officers depicted in the book certainly mirrors reality The novel features a very inventive and shocking computer game.

This lightly fictionalized offering will encourage young students to learn more about the first modern novel.

Don't Go Home by Carolyn Hart «Best - selling author Alex Griffith has mined his childhood home, Broward's Rock, for all it's worth, fictionalizing the island's secret affairs, dirty deals and suspicious deaths in his novel Don't Go Home.

In the Classroom: As we read and share memoirs with children, we should also talk about that «continuum» of life - story poetry and help students understand the distinct nature of each type, showing examples of poetry as memoir (Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming), fictionalized memoir (Carole Boston Weatherford's Becoming Billie Holiday), mock memoir (Gary Crew's Troy Thompson's Excellent Peotry [sic] Book), and autobiographical novels in verse (Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again).

BEST LEFT UNWRITTEN Best - selling author Alex Griffith has mined his childhood home, Broward's Rock, for all it's worth, fictionalizing the island's secret affairs, dirty deals and suspicious deaths in his novel Don't Go Home.

The novel is, of course, largely fictionalized.

Noguchi is present, as is Thomas Wolfe, who later incorporates a wry fictionalized account of the event into his novel, You Can't Go Home Again.

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.

Thomas Wolfe's autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel tells the story of a fictionalized Asheville, N.C..