Sentences with phrase «novel by a writer»

It may seem incongruous to review a book by a reigning Pope alongside a novel by a writer famed for her Vampire Chronicles, but both bring us face to face with the mystery of the Incarnation.

Adapted from André Aciman's 2007 novel by writer James Ivory and directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (2016's «A Bigger Splash»), «Call Me by Your Name» beautifully captures the unspoken yearning and feelings that are finally acted upon before it's too late.

The two - in - one team - up will also include an original graphic novel by writer Fabian Nicieza and artists Scott «Rahzzah» Wilson and Szymon Kudranski.

It is a bold novel by a writer destined to become a major force in American literature.

Most recently — while on the home stretch of work on my novel, After Her, I chose to revisit two novels I'd read and loved before, and a recent novel by a writer I deeply admire.

After noting this intriguing passage, I discovered a so - called novel by a writer called Eldritch Black titled The Book of Kindly Deaths.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is a philosophical novel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.

Not exact matches

'' [It's] a novel by the Belgian - born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian.

MAY 14, 2010: The brilliant and prolific Tyee contributing editor Crawford Kilian proves his versatility by publishing what will be among The Tyee's most read stories ever: The Ten Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers.

The Master and Margarita, a novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, is another modern masterpiece.

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

Rather, argued Crane, «the plot of any novel or drama is the particular temporal synthesis effected by the writer of the elements of action, character, and thought that constitute the matter of his invention» (TN 141).

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

I had just seen their Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, a writer whose work Merchant and Ivory had earlier mined successfully with A Room with a View and, less successfully, Maurice.

I just finished an excellent novel last night by the Canadian writer David Adams Richards, Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down.

So all I could muster up by way of reply, at least for that moment, was: «Well, they're both American writers of novels, they both won the Nobel Prize, and they're both dead.»

At Light on Dark Water, conversation about a luminous novel: Pilgrim's Inn, by the mid-20th-century English writer Elizabeth Goudge....

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

In Death and the Dervish, a novel by the Bosnian writer Meša Selimović, the protagonist learns that his brother was unjustly imprisoned and then killed.

Was Lake Hopatcong really 35 feet deep, as was asserted by a writer on the then - novel sport of scuba diving?

Linda Grant, author of the Booker - shortlisted novel The Clothes on Their Backs, said she was organising a protest against the rule while Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, said he had started a mission to get «every writer in the UK publicly opposed to this by tea time».

So says Kit, a character in The Quarry, the final novel by the Scottish writer Iain Banks — who himself died earlier this month from cancer.

Cory Doctorow, a writer and intellectual property activist, has released the text of his first science - fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, under a new license that goes by the somewhat awkward name «Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike.»

BECOMING a writer of novels, even novels fuelled by science, was far from any destiny I would have chosen if you'd asked my younger self what it wanted to be.

And there must be something common to the creative act, whatever its discipline, in James's assertion that from one evocative fragment of conversation overheard by the writer a entire novel can be written, that from the slightest bit of material a whole novelistic world is created.

The project was named after «Solaris» a novel by an outstanding Polish writer Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006).

About Site - American Short Fiction selects and publishes short stories, short shorts, novellas, and novel excerpts by established and super new writers.

I have a deep fondness for mystery novels written by English writers, many of them female.

Written by Josh Brewer, August 11th, 2017, at 1:00 p.m. Tweet to: @theJWBrewer Title: The Dark Half Director: George Romero Writer: George Romero, Paul Hunt, Nick McCarthy Based on the Novel by Stephen Ling Release Date: April 23rd, 1993 Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker Cliff's Notes After publicly «killing» his pseudonym, a writer becomes the Writer: George Romero, Paul Hunt, Nick McCarthy Based on the Novel by Stephen Ling Release Date: April 23rd, 1993 Cast: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Julie Harris, Michael Rooker Cliff's Notes After publicly «killing» his pseudonym, a writer becomes the writer becomes the target

Written by Josh Brewer, July 21st, 2017, at 5:00 p.m. Tweet to: @theJWBrewer Title: Stephen King's The Stand Director: Mick Garris Writer: Stephen King, based on his novel of the same name Release Date: May 8th through May 12th, 1994 Cast: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Rob Lowe, Laura San Giacomo, Miguel Ferrer, Bill Fagerbakke, Shawnee Smith,

Austin, Texas About Blog American Short Fiction selects and publishes short stories, short shorts, novellas, and novel excerpts by established and super new writers.

Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Writer: Lawrence D. Cohen Based on the Novel by Stephen King Release Date: November 18th, 1990 Cast: Tim Curry!!!

Is a novel by english writer charlotte bront.

Writer - director Vadim Perelman, working from a novel by Andre Dubus III, does his best to keep Kathy's life and attainments simple, in order to sell us on the idea that she's a person who might ignore her mail to the point of getting herself into such a fabricated mess.

Based on the 2010 novel by Willy Vlautin, a writer who also writes songs for his band Richmond Fontaine, the film comes from the British writer - director Andrew Haigh.

Crew: Director, writer: Alex Garland, based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer.

Crew: Director, writer: Andrew Haigh, based on the novel by Willy Vlautin.

It's based on Suzanne Collins» best - selling novel and is written by Slumdog Millionaire's Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn (a pseudonym for Little Miss Sunshine writer Michael Arndt).

«Lean on Pete» calls to mind other greats as well — one imagines a pitch meeting where it was described as «The 400 Blows» meets «Wendy and Lucy» — but writer - director Haigh, working from the novel by Willy Vlautin, has his own way of telling this kind of story.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

The screenplay by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida), adapted from a novel by British writer Naomi Alderman, provides generous insight into cultural and spiritual customs, and offers an intriguing perspective on how their patriarchal basis seems outdated in the 21st century.

Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.

«The Pledge» is based on a novel by Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt.

Aimed squarely at the tween set, Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer is not an adaptation of one or more of the novels, but rather a brand - new tale scripted by McDonald and Kathy Waugh (writer for kids shows like Big & Small, Curious George and Arthur).

Adapted from a novel by the Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt, «The Pledge» is not a pleasant film, but it is deeply, scarily rewarding.

By all accounts Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn had a monster of a book to adapt in Flynn's popular novel and what's stunning is not just how well the adaptation works but on how many levels it successfully operates on.

It is written by Michael Green and original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher, and succeeds the initial story based on Philip K. Dick's novel «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.»