Sentences with phrase «in fictional novels»

In her fictional novels her research and experience with survival techniques and forgotten life - sustaining methods of the generations past come to the forefront in a action packed adventures.

Engage students in a discussion about the first - person point of view as it differs in the fictional novel Drita, My Homegirl and the two personal narratives in Making It Home.

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To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

Luckie wrote a novel called DO U, about men at a fictional black college, and now runs a site called Today in Black Twitter.

The nickname came from a fictional terrorist in the 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, «The Day of the Jackal,» which was turned into a popular film.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

Together they had found a soulmate in another product of a strict Christian education — Nikos Kazantzakis, of Greek Orthodox background — and decided that his novel, presenting a fictional version of a Jesus who had trouble resisting all the tempting opportunities that plague the rest of us, should be made into a movie.

In her best - selling 2014 novel California, Edan Lepucki briefly describes the fictional Plank College, a free two - year liberal arts program that centers around a Great Books curriculum while teaching its all - male students how to farm.

In O'Connor's words, what one finds is that «the characters in these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.&raquIn O'Connor's words, what one finds is that «the characters in these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.&raquin these novels... have an inner coherence... their fictional qualities lean away from typical social patterns, toward mystery and the unexpected.»

The Indian - born author's book, «Joseph Anton,» describes the nine years he spent in hiding, after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced him to death in 1989, for basing a fictional character on the Prophet Muhammad in his novel «The Satanic Verses.»

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

Wolf's store helped inspire her description of the fictional Hartsel's store at Temecula in her classic novel Ramona.

Huckleberry Fin was a fictional character in Mark Twain's novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer way back in 1876 and The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin in 1884.

The novel, a New York Times best seller, is a fictional account of Benedict Arnold's socialite wife Peggy Shippen's role in his treason against America.

As you probably know, he came up with the idea of Newspeak in this novel Nineteen Eighty - Four with the cult slogans «War is peace», «Freedom is slavery» and «Ignorance is strength» which were used in this fictional world to manipulate public opinion.

A Novel Look at Postdocs 5 May 2006 The researchers in Allegra Goodman's fictional lab put mentoring, apprenticeship, ambition, loyalty, competition, deception, and integrity under the microscope.

When asked about Pauling's faulty DNA model, one of his contemporaries commented, «You could not have written a fictional novel in which Linus would have made an error like thi

His novel City of God begins with a meditation on the Big Bang and includes several memorable passages in which a fictional writer peers inside Einstein's mind and channels his thoughts.

Immediately it brought me back to childhood and a novel I read about the endangered Fender's blue butterfly in the Douglas fir forests of southern Oregon, a story about the clash between environmentalists and the logging industry over endangered species and their habitat, (a fictional story so I'm not sure how entirely accurate).

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

Now, in her upcoming novel Red Carpets & White Lies, Black has penned a fictional depiction of the scandalous, unpredictable lives of Miami's top socialites.

Charles Bartholomew «Chuck» Bass is a fictional character in the novel and television series Gossip Girl.

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.

The show takes place in the fictional town of Castle Rock — the setting for many of King's novels, and a host of horror talent will star including The Evil Dead's Jane Levy, Carrie's Sissy Spacek and Bill Skarsgard (recently seen terrorising children in IT).

One half shows us the story in the novel, Jake Gyllenhaal playing both the author in the real timeline and the lead character in the fictional one.

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.

Nine years after meeting Celine (Delpy, Three Colors: White), Jesse (Hawke, Training Day) is a best - selling author, whose latest novel is a fictional account of that night in Vienna where the two fell for each other.

The wonder of the flawed The Claim is that Winterbottom's choices to compress events, to transplant the action from Hardy's fictional Wessex to a boom town in the Sierra Nevadas, and to reimagine the pivotal set - pieces of the novel from Hardy's autumnal fall to a wind - blasted mountain winterscape, are to a one, faithful to the feeling and effect of not only Hardy, but also the death of the American West myth.

Set in fictional Wessex County in south - west England in the 1870s, Thomas Vinterberg's («The Hunt») adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd chronicles the ups and downs of Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan, «Inside Llewyn Davis»), a smart, headstrong woman who is fiercely proud of her independence when it comes to choosing suitors....

Jasper Jones (Film Movement), adapted from Craig Silvey's best - selling coming - of - age novel, is the story of Charlie Bucktin (Levi Miller), a bookish 14 - year - old boy who lives in fictional Corrigan, a small rural Australian town.

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).

Aaron Taylor - Johnson, «Nocturnal Animals» (Focus Features) Playing a fictional character in a novel within a film gives license for flair, and Taylor - Johnson delivers in Tom Ford's latest film.

Following their meet - cute, The Fault in Our Stars runs its course charting Hazel and Augustus's relationship from its somewhat aimless beginnings, in which she resists getting close to him out of fear of hurting him, through health crises that serve as a form of bondage, and eventually across an ocean to Amsterdam in search of the reclusive (fictional) author of Hazel's favorite novel.

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.»

In January of 2010, I started a Facebook Group for the Xavier Paranormal Investigators, the fictional ghost hunting group in my upcoming novel Ghosts of Rosewood AsyluIn January of 2010, I started a Facebook Group for the Xavier Paranormal Investigators, the fictional ghost hunting group in my upcoming novel Ghosts of Rosewood Asyluin my upcoming novel Ghosts of Rosewood Asylum.

Doig's latest historical novel set in the fictional Two Medicine Country in northern Montana stars an affable bartender and his precocious 12 - year - old son, whose coming - of - age takes place in a saloon.

Like Clockers (1992) and his two other books set in fictional Dempsey, N.J. - Freedomland (1998) and Samaritan (2002)- Lush Life paints a richly textured portrait of city dwellers that would make Balzac and Dickens proud: The novel is populated with quick - witted cops, underprivileged teenage criminals, ethically challenged officials, and overworked and long - suffering average joes.

First, the five - year fictional delay had to happen because of my storytelling style, in that all my horror / thrillers — not just the Infected series, but my stand - alone novels as well — happen in «real time.»

I'm currently writing my third novel, which, like my first two, is set in the fictional town of Mill River, Vermont.

For novels, fictional anecdotes in nonfiction, and true stories told in a narrative style, I highlight areas where you can «show, not tell,» use active voice rather than passive, and weave in more sensory details and point - of - view characters» observations, thoughts, and feelings.

And last, Anita Diamant, who created a gorgeous fictional novel, The Red Tent, from the mention of a name in The Bible.

Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history.

Mix in a love of Victorian ghost stories, together with nineteenth - and early twentieth - century detective stories, and you have a pretty good idea of the novel's fictional foundations.

While the novel shines light on Caroline in particular, William, with his impressive discoveries and status as England's astronomy golden boy, provides motivation for the fictional Arthur Ainsworth's quest for renown.

In the novel, Groff includes the Mills Commission's choice of Cooperstown to host the Hall of Fame as an important part of the fictional Templeton's character and survival.

My upcoming book is set at a fictional college that is based on the college I attended, so I want to blog about specific places on campus, professors or classmates who inspired certain characters, and campus ghost stories that appear in one form or another in my novel.

I'm laboring laboriously on a college class on self - publishing I'm going to be teaching in Spokane, the sequel to Night Undone, Indies Unlimited stuff, Indie Author Day stuff (I'm on the board of advisors), updating some of my book covers... I've got four Mr. Pish books in the works this year, Mr. Pish calendars for 2018, more Agent Night books, a horror novel, a fictional biography, and, most important of all, the patent for the gruel.

RMFW members in good standing who have independently published one or more novel - length book (s) of fiction, or equivalent in fictional short stories, and who have income of at least $ 250 for both print and digital versions of the book (s).