Sentences with phrase «novel about a period»

What do you think you gain from reading a novel about a period in history, as opposed to a nonfiction historical account?

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During the question - and - answer period one of them asked me about the moral precepts in my stories, and the question alarmed me, because a novel should not be a moral tract, it should be a story.

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

«We are entering an exciting period of discoveries in genetics that may provide new insights about novel disease pathways that can be explored for development of therapies.»

Adapted by Rees and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams from the 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, it is a period epic spanning about five years, from America's 1941 entry into World War II to the immediate postwar era.

Haynes doesn't seem to have anything to say about Highsmith or movies adapted from Highsmith's novels, or the time period.

The salesman story has the most weight and substance, evoking one of the middle - period novels of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. about all - American burnout, and it's helped immeasurably by warm and nuanced performances of Giamatti and Braugher.

An adaptation of Joe R. Lansdale's series of crime novels about a pair of East Texas pals who keep playing amateur sleuth, it was loaded with»80s period charm, had abundant chemistry between stars James Purefoy and Michael Kenneth Williams (who became friends years before in NBC's otherwise - forgettable The Philanthropist), and was filled with weird supporting characters.

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Based on the novel by Deborah Moggach, whose novel «These Foolish Things» was adapted into «The Exotic Marigold Hotel,» «Tulip Fever» is a period drama about forbidden love and leaps of faith.

Based on the novel «The Brisk Foxhole» by the young Richard Brooks and directed by Edward Dmytryk in what many feel was the best period of his career, this is the famous postwar thriller about an anti-Semitic murder and the returning American soldiers mixed up in it.

The seminal film about teen angst and high school carnage has to be Brian De Palma's 1976 landmark adaptation of King's first full length novel, the tale of an unpopular teenager who marks the arrival of her period by suddenly embracing her psychic powers.

In fact, similar complaints have been historically made about most children's entertainment media during the peak periods of their popularity, including video games, comic books, radio, film, and novels.

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

I have a question about the contrast between the period the novel's set in and the contemporary world.

The answers to these questions — and many more — are answered in Gennifer Choldenko's new novel, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, a hilarious and honest story about what happens when two worlds collide.

But that's entirely secondary, since what's good about this novel is its razor sharp dialogue, a great cast of noirish characters, and its period atmosphere.

But to a careful reader, it quickly becomes clear that this is actually a novel about falling in love: first with a time period, and then with an awkward, tall librarian named Sadie.

Bolden uses real - life period photos to frame this richly imagined novel set in 1905 West Virginia about a girl who goes on a quest to find the truth about her African American family.

I'm talking about the writer who has written multiple books over a long period, submitted them for publication, and been rejected over and over until one of the novels gets accepted.

Your website is an excellent place to post reviews, information about upcoming author events, and free content for visitors (such as interesting historical facts about the period of your novel or sample chapters of upcoming releases).

We've had a lot of industry talk about how that market impacts print sales for periodicals, but as you are more focused on graphic novels, has digital had a significant impact on your books or a significant sales base period?

*** «Perhaps concern over «uncertainty» in complex, adaptive, open systems should be investigated by inductive generalization from observations of the dynamics of a wide range of such systems: ecosystems, social systems, computer systems, immune systems, economic systems... It is curious that the following things are never admitted as «facts about the world,» but here goes: the observer would note of all of these systems that they undergo oscillations within apparent parameters and occasionally flip into new regimes; they often demonstrate novel emergence; and that increased forcing, whether of native elements or exotic ones, increases the rates of oscillation and catastrophic shifts, sometimes after a quieter period of sub-threshold build - up.

When I travel to Mexico for an extended period of time I purchase a number of electronic bestseller at about half the price of hardcopy books, put them on my Sony Reader and go off to Mexico with a library of over 45 full length novels.