This is a big story, with big themes, based on Victor Hugo's really big
novel about love, law and revolution in 19th - century France.
CAROL: Nominated for Cinematography, Best Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Best Actress for Cate Blanchett and Supporting Actress for Rooney Mara is based on the Patricia Highsmith
novel about a love affair between two women in the 1950's.
A riotously funny, emotionally raw
novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind — whether we like it or not.
Yesterday we told you about The Plum Tree, Ellen Marie Wiseman's poignant debut
novel about love and survival in Germany during World War II.
From O. Henry Prize — winning author Emily Ruskovich comes a stunning debut
novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss.
A startling, thought - provoking
novel about love, connection, and loss from The New York Times bestselling author of The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children.
An enthralling
novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle.
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Matrimony, a moving new
novel about love, loss, and the aftermath of a family tragedy.
If you're lacking a flesh - and - blood Valentine, we've selected the best
novels about love from the past year to sweep you off your feet.
A luminous
novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory.
Celebrate Valentine's Day with an incredible love story and an exclusive cover reveal for Patti Callahan's Becoming Mrs. Lewis,
a novel about the love between C.S. Lewis and his wife, Joy Davidman, to be published October 2, 2018, by HarperCollins / Thomas Nelson.
Ross won for her novel, Her Secret Rose, a literary - historical
novel about the love affair between W B Yeats and Maud Gonne.
- Kirkus «An epic, extraordinary
novel about love, beauty, and war, Temple of a Thousand Faces is sure to please.»
Not exact matches
These companies may be growing or
about to be going, but the founders are spending every day just like you facing the same kinds of challenges, coming up with new and
novel solutions, and suffering all the ups and downs of the startup process that we know and
love so well.
• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation
novel, in the manner of Thomas
Love Peacock, and just
about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.
Eve Tushnet's new
novel Amends is
about how
love is better than sheer moral achievement and how, often, we have to journey through humiliation in order to get it.
Jane Austen's First
Love by Syrie James:: I love novels about Jane Austen, they're my guilty pleas
Love by Syrie James:: I
love novels about Jane Austen, they're my guilty pleas
love novels about Jane Austen, they're my guilty pleasure.
Novels could (and should) be written
about what this show got right
about marriage, but it's enough to say here that their partnership and
love is arguably the finest portrayal of marriage in television today.
Yes, with hypothermia just a couple of degrees away, with water rising and no help in sight, Clare and Russ manage to forget
about his wonderful wife (the woman he truly
loves, the woman who helped him through posttraumatic stress syndrome) and finally give in to three
novels» worth of lusty longing.
In his
novel High Fidelity, Nick Hornby asks why people worry so much
about sexy, violent, and perverse rock songs, and so little
about the many more rock songs that luxuriate in beautiful sadness, usually a sadness fueled by
love.
Lady Susan, a cynical story
about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty;
Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental
novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.
If you are a believer, or just
love a good book, check out my historical fiction
novel about the Magi and the Nativity: http://www.epiphany-site.com.
Loved this article from the author
about how the
novel relates to the world today, and this bit: «One of my rules was that I would not put any events into the book that had not already happened in what James Joyce called the «nightmare» of history, nor any technology not already available.
He is at work on a harrowing yet comic memoir
about having been recently kidnapped in China and on an obsessive modern
love novel.
Mysterious characters from the city surrounding the hospital will be crucial in determining the baby's fate, as will a workaholic British doctor with whom Mariam finds herself falling in
love... Alice Allan's debut
novel is an original, vivid and moving story
about attachment and loss.
I
love historical
novels (Walter Scott and Leon Uris too) as I find them a great introduction to events I know less
about.
He also attempted a book - writing career (one idea was to be «a Bill Bryson, but for horses»; another
novel was to be
about a «Hooray Henry who had fallen in
love with a Russian hooker»).
All the participants then read an embarrassing passage from a
novel — in which a woman opens a magazine to find that her ex-boyfriend has written an article
about her, called «
Loving a Larger Woman» — and rated how much they enjoyed the story.
As a teenager he began to sell his own comics — a graphic
novel about two people falling in
love in one case, a dreamy series of meditations
about philosophy in another.
I
love reading and talking
about inspiring true life stories, new fictional books, or classic
novels with my friends!
But women are constantly watching
love movies and reading romance
novels where the heroine meets the man of her dreams randomly while going
about her life.
She quotes ``... When I say beyond
LOVE, I'm talking
about the type of relentless devotion that you only see in romance
novels and Hollywood movies».
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About Blog An autodidect who
loves books; isn't that
novel?
Its hard to talk
about oneself, but here goes... I
love to cook desserts, read historical
novels, paint watercolours (not very well but I'm trying), I do some volunteer work, for a couple of different organisations during the year.
The film is directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and is based on Sara Gruen's bestselling
novel about a veterinary student (Pattinson) who joins a traveling circus and falls in
love with the wife (Witherspoon) of the head trainer (Waltz).
The Garden of Eden (R for profanity, nudity and graphic sexuality) Screen adaptation of the posthumously - published Hemingway
novel of the same name
about an American couple (Jack Huston and Mena Suvari) honeymooning on the French Riviera whose relationship becomes strained when they both fall in
love with a naughty, Italian nymphet (Caterina Murino).
Oscar and Lucinda, from Peter Carey's acclaimed Australian
novel, fuses humor and pain into an enthralling romantic fable
about faith,
love and other games of chance.
That commitment to the
novels» adult subject — this is
about loyalty as much as
love, both national and individual — makes Mockingjay Part 2 an ambitious conclusion to a quietly bold saga.
The saddest part
about the deleted scenes was that you see a ton of odes to the
novel, including Val's «I
love you forever!»
«True Blood» (Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO) «Six Feet Under» creator Alan Ball adapts a series of
novels about a telepathic Louisiana waitress (Anna Paquin), who falls in
love with a vampire (Stephen Moyer) in a world where the undead live out in the open.
Last year they were behind the script for the much
loved The Spectacular Now and here they are again adapting from John Green's best selling
novel about cancer kinds falling in
love.
«Call Me By Your Name» --- A gentle, almost - pastoral tale of first
love directed with affection by Luca Guadagnino and based on Andre Aciman's
novel about a highly educated 17 - year - old (Timothée Chalamet) whose world gets rocked by Oliver (an apparently never - aging Armie Hammer), a handsome scholar assigned to assist his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), a professor working in Italy during a long, hot summer.
The challenges in adapting a
novel about the romance between two people where one of them is dead from the outset is obvious, but the film never skirts this fact, instead embracing it and using flashbacks and Justin's memories as a recurring them to show the evolving
love affair between him and Tessa.
Light years ahead of the last adaptation of a Dennis Lehane
novel (Mystic River), Gone Baby Gone is
about the insanity of agreeing to be absolutely in
love in a temporary, capricious universe.
Working for the first time with material developed by another screenwriter, director Todd Haynes transforms an underappreciated 1952 Patricia Highsmith
novel about secret lesbian
love into a universal romance.
Based on the 2006
novel by Naomi Alderman, Disobedience — like all meaningful movies
about the mysteries of
love — never tips its hand to indicate where it's going.
It's
about loving to
love those things, which makes Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of the bestselling
novel...
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.
Twilight — Summit Entertainment, 120 mins — Catherine Hardwicke directs Melissa Rosenberg's screenplay based on Stephenie Meyer's
novel about a teenage girl who falls in
love with a vampire.
Indeed, Ivory will win because he's due, and deservedly so, both for his astutely configured adaptation of André Aciman's acclaimed
novel of the same name —
about the
love affair between two men that plays out against the background of a dreamy Mediterranean summer — and as a tribute to his 44 - year working partnership (and romantic relationship) with Ismail Merchant.