Sentences with phrase «novel about a boy»

You know, William Golding's classic novel about boys creating their own vicious society, an allegorical tale about brutal masculinity.

Ready Player One is a sci - fi novel about a boy, Wade Watts, who spends his time plugged into the OASIS, a virtual utopia where people attend school and work and also explore the vast virtual universe created by James Halliday, a man obsessed with the»80s.

After seeing hearing they would direct an adaptation of Nick Hornby's fine novel About a Boy, I thought I would get a chance to retract that early statement.

The Perks Of Being A Wallflower director Stephen Chbosky stays firmly within his poignant wheelhouse by adapting someone else's bestselling coming - of - age tale — this time R.J. Palacio's novel about a boy born with a facial deformity (Room's Jacob Tremblay) who struggles to fit in at his new school.

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.

So when I started writing a novel about a boy with a mental illness, it seemed natural to give him power.

But Hornby knows a little something about screenwriting as well as sitcoms: He adapted Cheryl Strayed's Wild for film, and his novel About a Boy is now the basis for an NBC sitcom.

I have experience creating custom spots for magazines and children's textbooks, images for T - shirts, logos, picture books, and (my personal favorite) a middle grade novel about a boy and a genie.

Falling Kingdoms, a sort of Game of Thrones aimed at YA readers, will kick off with the first book in the series, and the Collin Fisher novel about a boy detective with Asperger's syndrome will release this fall as well.

For some time I had been thinking of writing a novel about a boy who sets off in search of his missing father.

No doubt the Booker Prize - winning novel about a boy named Pi stranded on a lifeboat — with a Bengal tiger!

It's a coming - of - age / fantasy novel about a boy with one arm who wants to be a soldier.

Not exact matches

Flannery O'Connor's novel The Violent Bear It Away does suggest a more satisfactory relation for human beings between the ordinary and the transcendent though it is, on the face of it, a very strange one indeed.19 Her novel is about a fourteen - year - old boy, Francis Tarwater, who, after the death of his great - uncle, a self - proclaimed prophet, goes to his uncle Rayber in order to fulfill the Lord's «call» that he, Tarwater, baptize Rayber's young idiot son.

And yet the novel that followed The Junkers, Monk Dawson, was about a monk: a simple story of a boy from a school not unlike Ampleforth, who on graduation joins the community, then questions its commitment to educating the sons of the rich, and applies his own idiosyncratic «preferential option for the poor,» providing shelter for a homeless family in the school theater.

Patrick Rothfuss's debut novel about Kvothe, a young boy who grows to be a legend, is compelling and beautifully written.

A young boy thrown into a alien world, forced to improvise to find his way and gain approval: Roald Dahl might as well have been talking about the career of Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes in Russia when he wrote his classic children's novel.

Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card's beloved sci - fi novel about a young boy trained to lead an army against an alien invasion, will hit the big screen next November.

His new book is a novel, DOWNWARD DOG (Diversion Book; paperback release June 2014) about a Bad Boy NYC yoga teacher.

Submarine is a Welsh film that director Richard Ayoade adapted a screenplay based off the novel by the same name, about an awkward teenage boy and his first real relationship with a girlfriend.

Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping (Robert Donat) who devotes his life to teaching «his boys» after the death of his lovely, energetic American wife Katherine (Greer Garson).

In the aforementioned framing device, Ben Whishaw, playing a far too soft and obsequious Melville, shows up at the inn of pickled, traumatized Thomas Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson, typecast) one dark and stormy night seeking raw material from the former Essex cabin boy for his upcoming novel about whalers.

«Hugo» is an adventure drama film based on Brian Selznick's novel «The Invention of Hugo Cabret» about a boy who lives alone in a Paris railway station and the enigmatic owner of a toy shop there.

Salman Rushdie adapted his own novel and narrates «a lushly visual epic about two boys who are switched at birth and forever marked by history.»

Richard Curtis (Love Actually) will adapt the novel, which is «a contemporary thriller set in the third world, about three boys who scrape a living picking through rubbish mounds.

The son Will, who has practically memorized dime novels about Ben Wade, idealizes the outlaw, and when Dan realizes the boy has followed the posse, he is not pleased.

Deadline reports that Summit Entertainment, hunting for it's next young adult smash after Twilight, is acquiring the movie rights for the novel about a young boy genius with the fate of the planet in his hands.

«Jeffrey Westhoff on «The Boy Who Knew Too Much»»: The veteran Chicago film critic chats with Indie Outlook about his excellent debut novel.

The screenplay by Emma Donoghue is based on her novel of the same name, about a five - year - old boy held captive in a single room for years with his mother.

British director Haigh, whose last film 45 Years was voted the Guardian's film of the year in 2015, receives a competition berth for Lean on Pete, an adaptation of Willy Vlautin's novel about the relationship between a young boy and a failed racehorse.

André Aciman's 2007 novel, about a precocious 17 - year - old boy falling in love with an older man on vacation in Italy, was wildly acclaimed but seemed like it'd be difficult to translate to screen.

And so it's weird to think about him making a version of The Jungle Book, based on Rudyard Kipling «s novel about a young boy who is raised by animals.

It's hard to believe that this is the same Hedges who helped adapt Nick Hornby's About a Boy into such a satisfying, authentic, life - affirming film and wrote the highly - regarded What's Eating Gilbert Grape and its source novel.

«Patrick Melrose,» a despairing yet impressive Showtime adaptation of Edward St. Aubyn's semi-autobiographical novels, is about a lonely little rich boy who is raped by his narcissistic father and ignored by his coldly aloof mother.

Fans of author Nick Hornby, famous for novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, have a new adaptation to look forward to.

To All the Boys I've Loved Before This movie, based on a popular YA novel, asks the very important question: What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them all at once?

«The House of Tomorrow»: Based on the novel by Peter Bognanni, an assistant professor at Macalester, about a boy raised in a geodesic dome who discovers punk rock.

Based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, the film begins in 1951 as Marcus Messner (Lerman), a precocious young Jewish boy, is about to enter college life and, by extension, avoid being drafted for the Korean War.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous adaptation of André Aciman's beloved novel, about a teenage boy's love affair with an older man one summer in Italy.

He proved with «About a Boy» (2002) that he was a director of considerable gifts; working with his brother Chris he adapted a Nick Hornby novel into the perfect setting for Hugh Grant's merger of selfishness and charm.

Movies based on Nick Hornby novels tend to be pretty good — see «About a Boy,» «High Fidelity,» and «Fever Pitch.»

Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith about the relationship between an unhappy wife (Blanchett) and a twenty - something department store employee in 1950s New York, the project was previously to be directed by «Boy A» helmer John Crowley, but he's bowed out due to scheduling conflicts.

In that way, the film often brings to mind Brooklyn author Jonathan Safran Foer's unbearably contrived 9/11 novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, in which a precocious little boy unlocks a mystery about his father while taking a quirky tour of Manhattan and its varied people.

Son of Fury was based on the novel Benjamin Blake by Edison Marshall, but screenwriter Philip Dunne seemed to stick with the basic template that worked so well in Zorro: a boy turns on the abusive powers that be, is condemned by the law, and eventually returns to reclaim his place and girlfriend while sneaking about town and teasing his enemies, until he's caught, but narrowly escapes a desperate situation in the nick of time.

Based on the Nick Hornsby novel and Hugh Grant film, About a Boy is about a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin StockAbout a Boy is about a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin Stockabout a loutish bachelor (David Walton) who finds his priorities in life shifting after he befriends an awkward young neighbor (Benjamin Stockham).

The Weight of all Things is a novel about war — and the lunacy of it — seen through the eyes of a nine - year - old boy.

A novel about war — and the lunacy of it — seen through the eyes of a nine - year - old boy.

Panels that explode with martial - arts power energize this graphic novel about Dixie, who almost lets her killer crush on a boy in her hapkido studio ruin her shot at tournament glory.

About a year ago, I took a deep breath, put on my big - boy pants and bought back the rights to my seven novels from my publisher.

This is the sequel to Paulsen's Lawn Boy, a novel about a kid who makes nearly half a million dollars when he starts up his own lawn business.

Hachette UK's CEO Tim Hely Hutchison spoke to The Bookseller about the campaign for The Casual Vacancy, Rowling's total departure from the world of the boy wizard and her first title aimed at a more mature crowd: «Our plans here, in the US and in all our territories will ensure that we deliver an outstanding international campaign entirely in keeping with the themes of the novel and the enormous worldwide affection and respect that the author inspires.»