Sentences with phrase «novel wonder boys»

Are we more deceived by Truman Capote, who supposedly relied on memory to retell the horrible story of the murder of the Clutter family in In Cold Blood, or Michael Chabon, who disguised real characters and situations in his novel Wonder Boys?

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Lighter, more comic versions of this can be found in novels like Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys or Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, where bored students and academics wreck their lives or the lives of those around them in search of moments of excitement.
Lionsgate have obtained the rights to R.J. Palacio's novel, Wonder, securing Tremblay as protagonist Auggie Pullman — a young boy born with a facial deformity.
(Watch for «L.A. Confidential» author James Ellroy in a party scene early on in Wonder Boys; I presume that Michael Chabon, who wrote Wonder Boys» source novel, will cameo in Hanson's next film?)
Based on the 2012 best selling novel by R.J. Palacio, «Wonder» is the story of a 10 - year - old boy named Auggie.
One can not help but notice odd similarities between fiction and real life when watching Wonder Boys, the new film based on Michael Chabon's novel.
Based on the novel by Michael Chabon, WONDER BOYS is a delightfully whimsical story that scores high on both originality and humor value.
Equal credit for Wonder Boys should be given to writer Steve Kloves, who adapted the novel by Michael Chabon (a Bay Area resident).
For example, Nancy Johnson, Melanie Koss, and Miriam Martinez discuss a student who read Wonder, a young adult novel about a boy with unsettling facial abnormalities, and wrote in his journal, «Yesterday when I was at the grocery store with my mom I saw a man with no arm.
Unusual Typography and Images Jonathan Safran Foer is well known as a literary boy wonder, and his novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close features an assortment of pictures and typography treatments that complement the story adeptly.
Chabon controls e-rights to such early works as «Wonder Boys» and his acclaimed debut novel «The Mysteries of Pittsburgh» because they came out well before the electronic era and digital editions were not mentioned in his contracts.
Michael Chabon's two first novels, «The Mysteries of Pittsburgh» and «Wonder Boys,» were released as e-books Tuesday.
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