Sentences with phrase «first collection of stories»

FICTION: Novelist Curtis Sittenfeld's first collection of stories explores conflict in relationships of every stripe.

His first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors» Association Jubilee Award, the inaugural Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of stories by a Canadian author and the British Betty Trask Award.

In Ford County, John Grisham's first collection of stories, we meet a weird and endearing group of misfits with one thing in common: each has lived in Clanton, the seat of fictional Ford County, Mississippi.

Flesh & Blood, his first collection of stories, appeared the same year.

His remarkable first collection of stories was hailed by The New York Times as «the debut of an exciting new voice in fiction.»

My first collection of stories, Faith, consisted of fourteen stories that fell within the 3500 - 6000 word length and, at least structurally, obeyed most of the conventions the fiction writing texts of the time recommended, as each narrative hinges upon a protagonist in a vividly rendered place who faces a conflict and makes a discovery.

His first collection of stories was The Ugliest House in the World (1998), which contains tales set in Malaysia, South Africa and Patagonia.

Stillpoint Digital Press is proud to announce the publication this month of The Law & the Heart, the first collection of stories by Nebula - and Sturgeon - nominated author Kenneth Schneyer.

In her first collection of stories, Birds of a Lesser Paradise (2012), Megan Mayhew Bergman focused on the relationships between humans and animals.

Her first collection of stories, Vaquita, won the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature and was published by the University of Pittsburgh University Press in 1996.

Milne's first collection of stories, called Winnie - the - Pooh, was published in 1926, which was followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Not exact matches

A$ $ uming the bible is more than a collection of stories written by men is your first mistake.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

This will be one of the first drawings in my book of my Sophia collection... the beginning of her story towards her own independence and freedom.

His first novel, Morte D'Urban (1962), won the National Book Award, as did a third short - story collection, Look How the Fish Live (1973) Although more uneven than the first two collections, this book still contained the requisite number of outstanding pieces.

His first two published works were short - story collections, The Prince of Darkness (1947) and The Presence of Grace (1956), whose contents could be divided evenly between the merely excellent and the truly extraordinary.

First, We Brunch is a collection of recipes and stories from Victoria, BC, famed as...

The first half is a collection of birth stories from women that have birthed at The Farm, the midwifery center in Tennessee that Ina May and the Farm midwives built in the 1970's - and still run today!

Next Wave features typically comprise investigative articles offering up - to - date information, first person career stories exposing visible role models, and collections of career resources related to the feature topics.

Rousteing told Vogue: «The allover beaded dress comes from my very first Balmain collection, so it's like I'm literally giving to H&M the beginning of my story.

At first glance, the color story of the Issey Miyake X Iittala collection (out now exclusively on momastore.org) looks quite timely for those looking for a burst of spring hues to freshen up the tabletop, but the culmination of this partnership has been in the works for several seasons now — four whole years, to be exact.

On Monday, Rihanna herself took to her own Instagram stories to share a first look at the new drop of products, amazingly dubbed the «Beach Please» collection, which will be available on April 6.

This true love story from my Dating Advice for Women Series is the first installment in what I hope will be a collection of true stories supplied by my readers and clients..

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

Because the first one wasn't bad enough, here comes part 2, a dreadful collection of ridiculously stupid gags that director Tim Story tries to polish, to no avail.

In the end, I'm thankful to have some new additions to my growing collection of Lego figurines and a new ability in my arsenal that will finally clear out that mob of ghosts on the first story level of the base game.

In real life, the Milnes married in 1919, after he served in the First World War, and before he saw serious success in the 1920s with the stories inspired by his son, Christopher Robin, and his collection of toys.

Using archival footage to tell the story, and accompanied by an originally composed score by Alex Somers,» Dawson City: Frozen Time», will depict a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation — and through that collection, how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.

Like «Creepshow 2» was the «Creepshow», it doesn't top the first but this is a another great collection of classic horror stories, even though a little more cookie cutter.

The first movie was a bit of a disappointment because the story didn't live up to the hype of having a collection of»80s action stars all in one place.

The film is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, and it's the fourth time Darabont has adapted one of King's works (the first was a short «The Woman in the Room» from a collection of adaptations from King's short story anthology Night Shift).

Her caption quotes the first line of Didion's 1979 essay collection: «We tell ourselves stories in order to live.»

«Bonus material includes a collection of behind - the - scenes, making - of stories, including a conversation with directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg; a sit - down with the two young newcomers who play Henry and Carina; the secrets behind the menacing new villain, Salazar, and his ferocious ghost sharks; an on - set visit with Jack's first mate from all five films; a chat with Sir Paul McCartney who appears as Uncle Jack; and a discussion about the franchise's legacy; along with hilarious bloopers, deleted scenes and memories from producer Jerry Bruckheimer's photo diary.»

War Horse Vauxhall — David Burgess-Wise examines the rôle played by the Vauxhall D - Type in the First World War, and drives the example in the manufacturer's collection / The Pomeroy Trophy at 60 — Peter McFadyen tells the story of the VSCC's event for finding the best sports touring car, and explains the arcane formulae behind it / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part three — In the third and final part of his series about these famous racers, Simon Moore investigates the fate of each / Auto - biography: Cally Callomon — Matthew Bell visits this art director, Vintage car owner and bicycle fanatic, and learns about his career and hobbies / Peugeot Racing Engineers 2: Louis Verdet Sébastien Faurès Fustel de Coulanges looks at the career of this engineer, whose influence spread far beyond motoring / The Ballot 2LS, part eight — Our Publisher concludes his series on the twin cam Ballot 2LS, listing the cars known to have existed but which have now disappeared

In this month's cover story, Back on Track: Leyland - Thomas No 1, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of Parry Thomas's first Leyland Eight racer, destroyed in a war - time air raid, and the recent re-creation built around a collection of original parts

Douglas Blain gets his hands on a rare alloy - bodied example in Great Leap Forward with photographs by Stefan Marjoram / In this months Auto - biography Jonathan Rishton meets Delwyn Mallett, the former art director who spent his career in the advertising industry whilst amassing an enviable collection of exotic machinery / In A beginner's guide to Rétromobile Stefan Marjoram doesn't know which way to look on his first visit to the unmissable Parisian old - car show / Scott Barrett remembers how a Riley Nine was the first light car to complete the Athens to Monte Carlo route of the famous rally, whilst Gordon McAllan shares his diary of the Classique re-run, in Monte Carlo or Bust / Ivan Margolius explains his theory of how Tatra car seating inspired an influential Modernist chair design in Cars, Furniture, Architecture / In his article Bellanger: the international car, Michael Worthington - Williams tells the story of the bull - nosed cars built in Neuilly - sur - Seine from 1912 - 1925 / In this months Sicilian snapshots, Simon Moore continues his trawl through a family album, this time sharing some pictures of the exotic road cars they owned / In the latest of his Back on the Road series, Michael Ware reports on a rare Austin 10hp van.

In this month's cover story, Back on Track: Leyland - Thomas No 1, David Burgess-Wise tells the story of Parry Thomas's first Leyland Eight racer, destroyed in a war - time air raid, and the recent re-creation built around a collection of original parts / Steve Welsh reports from this year's Goodwood Revival, the world's biggest historic motor racing event, with highlights including an all - Ferrari Lavant Cup and a tribute to Bruce McLaren / Inspired by a 1956 Motor Sport article, Justin Marozzi takes his Bristol 405 on a 1000 - mile round trip to the Lake District in his article Filton Fashion / We bring together another group of unrestored cars and lead them on a scenic tour round Rutland, Britain's smallest county, for The Oily Rag Run / In Woodrow: Stockport's sporting cyclecar, John Warburton samples the sole surviving example of this unusual light car built by a hat manufacturer in the north of England / Jörg Sierks visits two world - class concours for An Elegant Weekend, held on opposite sides of the English Channel / Edwardians to Ostend — Stefan Marjoram took his sketchbook and camera on an exciting Continental road trip and shares his experiences / In this month's Back on the Road, Michael Ware visits a 1921 Morris Oxford Sports

I'm really looking forward to reading your collection of stories because it will be my first experience of flash fiction.

Online Originals published «The Veteran» as the first part of «Quintet», a collection of five short stories announced in the following order: «The Veteran», «The Miracle», «The Citizen», «The Art of the Matter» and «Draco».

Following his Pulitzer Prize - winning The Known World, Jones presents a collection of fourteen short stories centered in Washington D.C - the same location as his first book of short stories, Lost in the City - a place that he knows well having been born and raised there.

Possibly because of the terrifying cannibalism story, possibly because of the creepy monkey on the cover, drawn from one of the collection's most frightening tales, possibly because I read it first at the tender age of 12 and couldn't go to sleep while the book was in the room with me... I could go on, but read it yourself and you'll find plenty of reasons to shiver (it also contains the novella «The Mist»).

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is the double - Booker winner's second short story collection and her first in 10 years — and it certainly has a killer title (ha).

The first major fall short story collection, This Is How You Lose Her, was also one of the year's most anticipated fall releases.

Mr. Tall By Tony Earley Back Bay • $ 14.99 • ISBN 9780316246149 In his first collection in 20 years, the author of the lluminous novel Jim the Boy offers a novella and six short stories that showcase his talent for capturing the rhythms and characters of Southern life.

I was first drawn to Danielle Evans» debut book — short story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self — because of the title, which is taken from «The Bridge Poem» by Donna Kate Rushin.

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

His first book of stories, Olympia, won the 1998 Canadian Authors» Association Jubilee Award, the inaugural Danuta Gleed Award for best first collection of... (more)

His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines and his first book, a collection of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the British Fantasy Award for «Best New Horror».

Nordan announces his comic talent to the world in the opening sentence of the opening story, «Sugar Among the Chickens,» of his first collection, The All - Girl Football Team: «I had been fishing for an hour and still hadn't caught anything.

Junot Díaz won the Pulitzer (and a pile of other awards) for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, but I've always been all about Drown, his first collection of short stories and the book that singled him out as the most promising literary voice of the Dominican - American community.