Sentences with phrase «novel about a young man»
Neil Gaiman's novel about a young man who goes looking for a fallen star to win the woman of his dreams is a perfect encapsulation — and subversion — of fairytale tropes.
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f anyone was going to do a silver screen adaptation of «Into the Wild,» Jon Krakauer's acclaimed novel about a young man who eschews a life of privilege to tramp across the U.S. only to end up starving to death in the Alaskan wilderness, it was Sean Penn..
B - The Paperboy Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Precious director Lee Daniels chose for his follow - up this over-the-top adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel about a young man (Zac Efron) whose brother (Matthew McConaughey) has come back to his home town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) with the help of the accused's fiancé (Nicole Kidman).
On Chesil Beach: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Emily Watson and Anne - Marie Duff star in this film based on Ian McEwan's novel about a young man and woman who find themselves caught up with the sexual revolution and societal pressures in 1962 England.
James Ivory wrote the screenplay, adapted from the Andre Aciman novel about a young man's sexual coming of age in Europe in the early 1980s, starring Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, and Michael Stuhlbarg.
What starts out as a charming, if simplistic, visual novel about a young man joining a school club with four cute anime girls slowly morphs into a fascinating commentary on mental illness, obsession, death, and the very nature of video games and reality.
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I can remember perfectly that when I was coming to manhood, the half - philosophical novels of the time had a deal to say about the young men and maidens who were facing the «problem of life.»
The World Made Straight (R for violence, drug use, sexual references and profanity) Adaptation of the Ron Rash novel of the same name, set in the Seventies, about a troubled young man (Jeremy Irvine) eager to escape a rural Appalachian community stained by the legacy of a Civil War massacre.
The Pitch: Stewart O'Nan's acclaimed novel comes to the big screen in the form of David Gordon Green's adaptation of «Snow Angels,» in which a pair of stories — one about a couple confronting tragedy, the other about a young man struggling with deep - seated personal problems — intertwine.
Snow Angels (Warner Independent, March 21) Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Amy Sedaris, Olivia Thirlby Director: David Gordon Green Rating: R The Pitch: Stewart O'Nan's acclaimed novel comes to the big screen in the form of David Gordon Green's adaptation of «Snow Angels,» in which a pair of stories — one about a couple confronting tragedy, the other about a young man struggling with deep - seated personal problems — intertwine.
They're joining forces for Across the River and Into the Trees, based on Ernest Hemingway «s 1950 novel about an older man who travels to an exotic location and strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
6:00 pm — TCM — The Heiress Olivia de Havilland's second Academy Award was for this film, based on Henry James» novel Washington Square, about an aging woman (in those days, aging meant like «older than 25») forbidden by her father from loving an earnest but non-socially-equal young man.
Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall are working to make a new version of The Thin Man, the Dashiell Hammett novel about drunk detective socialite Nick Charles, his charming young wife Nora and the unusual family mystery in which they become embroiled.
In large part, the outcry over «Cat Person» came because it's about a young woman, and it still feels novel when young women are allowed to be the objects of serious literary and aesthetic interest in the way that young men get to be in your Catcher in the Ryes and your Boyhoods.
uuu Glowingly filmed adaptation of Jane Austen's late novel about life and love in 19th - century England, centering on the emotional life of a young woman who reencounters an attractive man she once spurned on the advice of a misguided friend.
Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...
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.
The novel is about this young woman at a grief group who befriends an old man in her small town who is everyone's favorite grandpa.
Written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Matterhorn is a visceral and spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war.
Her debut novel The Plum Tree - a WWII story about a young German woman trying to save the love of her life, a Jewish man - will be released by Kensington in January 2013.
O'Brien's latest novel, set in her native Ireland, is a psychological thriller about a damaged young man who has carried the seeds of killing within him since childhood.
The publisher describes it as «A profound new novel about a paralyzed young man's unexplainable recovery — a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life,» but the whole time I was reading, I couldn't decide if the account by Jonathan Miles was fact or fiction.
An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer.
Winner of the British Carnegie Medal as well the Printz Award, Chambers» novel combines WWII romance with an edgy, contemporary story about English teen Jacob, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman even as he's attracted to an openly gay young man.
Timely and timeless, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small, Southern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion.
A thrilling and original coming - of - age novel for adults about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
In his heartfelt, heartbreaking novel, translated from the French, award - winning writer David Foenkinos proves that he knows a great deal about men, women, love lost and love found.At the beginning of Delicacy, young, beautiful Natalie appears to have it all: a high - powered job at a growing corporation, an exciting life in...
In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.
From the author of the acclaimed and bestselling debut novel «Warchild» comesa new action - packed adventure about a young man's journey into adulthood amidinterstellar war.
Epic fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young man forced to seek his fortune with a gang of bandits.
Omnibus of two novels, Seventh Son (1987) and Red Prophet (1988), first two books in the series The Tales of Alvin Maker, about a young man with supernatural
Historical fantasy novel, first in a series, about a young Saxon man, in Norman - ruled England, who is allowed to attend a school for magicians.
Young adult fantasy novel, companion to The Forgetting (2016), about a city where memories are wiped every 12 years, and about a man from Earth who's come in search of this ancient social experiment.
The novel is a biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.