Sentences with phrase «novel about a young woman»

Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films.
This disappointing half - hour drama series is based on Stephanie Danler's novel about a young woman whose new job pulls her in into the chaotic and debauched world of high - end dining in New York City.
From the PEN USA Award - winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.
I love this novel about a young woman's search for independence and her true self.
Henderson's new novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, is a beautiful literary novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.
It's no surprise that librarians are looking forward to How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry, a charming novel about a young woman who inherits a bookshop in an English village.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder» sNomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.
It is a novel about a young woman named Perla, the secrets in her house and the truths she does not want to face.
New York, New York — March 7, 2018 — Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced that Patty Yumi Cottrell's Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (McSweeney's), a darkly comic debut novel about a young woman seeking an explanation for her adoptive brother's suicide, and Jessica Bruder's Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty - First Century (W.W. Norton), a finely reported narrative that follows a new generation of itinerant workers, are the winners of the 2017 Discover Awards for fiction and nonfiction, respectively.

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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.
The young woman — the autobiographical creation of actual feisty Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi — is sketched in the same bold illustration style that characterizes Satrapi's internationally adored graphic novels about her life during Iran's Islamic revolution.
Black Film reports Paula Patton has been cast as a «villain» in the Stephanie Meyer - produced adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's novel about a young amnesiac woman being hunted by supernatural forces at Starz.
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.
«Room,» an adaption of the best - selling novel about a woman raising her young son inside a solitary room, won runner - up in the best film race.
Dench is remarkable is her role (surely in the running for an Oscar nom) as the seemingly simple woman who reads romance novels, gets excited about salad bars, is thrilled with mints on her pillow, and has lived a lifetime with a hole in her heart created by having her young son ripped from her world.
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.
And Colette, which emerges from the same production stable as the groundbreaking lesbian romance Carol, focusses on the French author and sexual boundary - pusher, best known for the boarding school Claudine series as well as Gigi, the 1944 novel about a convention - defying young woman who is trained to be a «courtesan».
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.
Mr. Morgan's Last Love (Unrated) Adaptation of Francoise Dornier's romance novel, set in Paris, about a suicidal American widower (Michael Caine) who gets a new lease on life when he falls head - over-heels for a young French woman (Clemence Poesy).
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.
There is something highly appealing about this atmospheric CBS series, based on a popular novel by Catherine Marshall about a young woman who, after a brief stint at college, arrives in Appalachia in November of 1912 to establish a mission school.
Do the British have an unending supply of novels about wise - beyond - their - years young women (unjustly poor or ordinary, of course) who have slightly dim older sisters who can't see love in front of their eyes while all the time these younger women suffer for their sisters» happiness?
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.
Janet Fitch, author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, releases her fourth novel, a coming - of - age story about a young woman during the Russian Revolution.
... an epic adaptation of E. M. Forster's novel about a young British woman (Judy Davis) who travels to India in the late 1920s with a free - spirited elder companion (Peggy Ashcroft)....
Adapted from Caren Lissner's teen novel by screenwriter Kara Holden and directed by Susan Johnson in her feature debut, Carrie Pilby is a charming, quirky slice - of - life tale about a unique young woman who learns important things about negotiating relationships and believing in herself.
She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).
A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman's return to her childhood home — and her encounter with the memories and secrets it holds
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.
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.
Would you call this primarily a political novel, or is it more a coming - of - age story about one young woman's personal journey?
Set in the 1970s in southwestern Michigan, the novel is about 16 - year - old Margo Crane, a brave young woman who sets off alone down the Stark River to find her mother.
The latest novel from PEN / Faulkner nominee Lorraine López revolves around a lost young woman who hopes to find peace and purpose by opening her Southern California home to wayward souls.What inspired this story about spiritual and religious wanderings?Curiosity.
In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel about Mr. Chartwell, a upright walking, talking black dog, an eminent statesman at the end of his career, and the vulnerable young woman.
- NoViolet Bulawayo «This glorious novel is a sharp, bracing, often hilarious family epic about a young woman tormented by the relentless ghosts of her past while in search of an American Dream that is not always available to those who seek it.»
Adichie's tale of the adventures of a young Nigerian woman in America, astounded by what she calls racial - disorder syndrome, is a world - class novel about what it takes to become a «full human being.»
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.
Her first novel for teens was Cut, about a young woman's troubles with self - injury.
A Small Indiscretion By Jan Ellison Random House • $ 16 • ISBN 9780812985429 Ellison took a break from college at the age of 19 to travel and work in Europe for a year, an experience that inspired her riveting debut novel about a young (and foolish) American woman whose experiences in London echo through her life two decades later.
Personal secrets drive the plot and reveal the history in this powerful novel about two young women who get off a boat in a small southern Illinois town at the start of the Civil War.
The Child Finder, Rene Denfeld's second novel and her most personal to date, is a harrowing story about a young girl living in captivity and the one woman who could possibly find her and bring her home.
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...
Høeg's smash best - seller became The Name of the Rose for the»90s: a demanding, philosophical novel, rich with theme and character, riding the narrative wave of a crime story — in this case, about a troubled, intensely intelligent Greenland woman trying to understand the death of a young boy.
Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.
Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.
Almost like a black remake of Jennifer Egan's first novel, The Invisible Circus, Bridgett Davis» Into the Go - Slow is also a story about a young woman who idolizes an older sister who perished in a foreign country and decides to re-trace the older woman's steps.
From the author of the widely praised The Yokota Officers Club, a superbly alive novel about two young American women caught up in the fevered excitement of the flamenco revival sweeping the Southwest.
A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who moves to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing, as far as the icy Bering Sea.
Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Diviners (2012) and Lair of Dreams (2015), about a young woman exiled from her hometime in Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New Young adult fantasy novel, third in a trilogy following The Diviners (2012) and Lair of Dreams (2015), about a young woman exiled from her hometime in Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New young woman exiled from her hometime in Ohio to live with her uncle in 1920s New York.
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