Sentences with phrase «novel from first person»

For example, I've seen agents tell authors they want them to change their novel from first person to third person — and the other way around.

Not exact matches

The novel begins with General Leia remembering how people failed to take advantage of their newfound freedom and disagreeing about the threat from the First Order, which rose from the fallen Empire.

It is the only first - person novel written from the perspective of a mad narrator that is truly, wholly, and terrifyingly convincing as a portrait of deep psychosis.

Dr Toby Pillinger, first author of the study from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London, said: «The mortality gap between people with schizophrenia and the general population is growing, and there is a need for novel approaches to halt this trend.

One of the problems «World War Z» has faced all along is that it looks like a high - concept zombie - apocalypse movie (adapted from Max Brooks» novel, told as a series of first - person accounts) but it's really something we don't see that often these days, an old - fashioned Hollywood star picture.

Ms. Lawrence's expressive nonverbal acting was crucial in successfully bringing Katniss's thoughts and attitude over from the first - person novel into the third - person film.

Yes, just as people emerge from the cinemas from the first screenings of The Hobbit, which started in December, they have been greeted by the news that Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien's novel is set to last even longer when it's released on Extended Edition DVD and Blu - ray this year.

It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.

The film has been adapted by Lucinda Coxon from David Ebershoff's 2001 novel of the same name, which details the life of Einar Wegener / Lili Elbe, a Danish painter and one of the first people to undergo...

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

Some people played along but many were appalled at the very idea of something as cliched and flimsy as a love triangle defining the young woman they've come to admire so fiercely from Suzanne Collins» best - selling trio of novels, the first adaptation of which makes its way to the screen this weekend amid great fervor and expectation.

Writer and producer («Big Love») Seth Greenland's new novel tells the story of a relationship that some might find inappropriate, from the first - person point of view of both parties.

The first survey from YouthSight's State of the Youth asked 1,000 people what type of medium they regularly employed to read novels.

Written in a wry, first - person voice realistically peppered with occasional slang and slurs, this ambitious first novel from a Hollywood producer doesn't entirely cohere.

There are two George R.R. Martin graphic novels, but overall, nothing we haven't seen before on this chart except for the first issue of The Unwritten, most likely from people sampling the series as it moves into its final arc.

The book opens in the grand tradition of coming - of - age novels distinguished by their hypnotic, first - person narrators, but while the voice of British teenager Holly Sykes can hold its own with those of Holden Caulfield or John Green's Hazel Grace Lancaster, it is merely the opening salvo in this multivoiced, harmonically layered narrative symphony that stretches — with occasional sojourns far back in time — from the 1980s, when Holly runs away from home, into the 2040s, when she is attempting to cope with an oil - depleted world descending into chaos.

A version of this novel in first person narration from Isabelle's point of view would have been intensely revelatory.

Most contemporary novels are written from first - or third - person perspectives, but many prominent writers (such as Junot Diaz and Lorrie Moore) have written short stories from a second - person POV on more than one occasion.

HANYA YANAGIHARA The People in the Trees (Doubleday, August) An accomplished first novel from a former Vintage publicity assistant and travel magazine editor, The People in the Trees is already being compared to the works of Norman Rush and Ann Patchett.

In One Person by John Irving (Simon & Schuster) This new novel explores the life of a 60 - year - old bisexual man and is told in the first person — Irving's first novel from that point of view since A Prayer for Owen Person by John Irving (Simon & Schuster) This new novel explores the life of a 60 - year - old bisexual man and is told in the first person — Irving's first novel from that point of view since A Prayer for Owen person — Irving's first novel from that point of view since A Prayer for Owen Meany.

However, this is the first novel I have read that addresses the emptiness that comes from having lived through that kind of pervasive fear and death and how a person can forge a life after.»

Edwidge Danticat's first novel for young adults represents the initial entry in an admirable new series from Scholastic Books called First Person Fiction, in which notable authors from variofirst novel for young adults represents the initial entry in an admirable new series from Scholastic Books called First Person Fiction, in which notable authors from varioFirst Person Fiction, in which notable authors from various...

The noir - ish novel is set largely in the first half of the 20th century, and it is salted with the kinds of characters one finds in an Edith Wharton novel, primarily those in Ethan Frome — those kinds of people who are burdened with some lingering illness or deformity and have a story to tell, a compelling story, one from which it is impossible to turn away.

The first few chapters are a little slow because the novel is told from the perspective of seven different characters in three different persons - first, third, and the slightly awkward second - which takes a bit of getting to grips with, but once the groundwork is laid the plot moves at a fair clip, offering many reasons to keep reading, not least of which is the opportunity to experience a different side of Bolivia from what most of us imagine - suffice to say, it ain't all ponchos and alpaca!

A few months ago, in response to a personal conundrum I shared with you, we debated the merits of wrestling a novel that wanted to be written in first - person into third, and whether that would be wise from a marketing perspective.

In that cliques would form, monetary values would have to be set (if someone is convinced their editing ought to be $ 500 per novel, they might not be happy to receive a $ 250 cover in return), and people who fail to deliver would have to be removed from the list (see the first pitfall).

While my novel — The Vampire Kitty - cat Chronicles — is hardly a classic, it is told from a cat's point of view, and is in first person.

In the riveting new novel from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, three very different people must choose between their families and their values.

Slightly Mad's examples of how a VR headset will enhance the Project CARS experience on the PS4 range from the standard use of cockpit cameras «to look around... and see everything from a first - person perspective», to the more novel integration of the PlayStation Camera head - tracking capabilities to «peer closer at some intricate detail or turn around and look out of the back window».

Part of a research project examining novel uses of first - person game engines, it removed all agency from the player, casting him or her as an unidentified figure exploring a desolate island.

Apart from a novel first person camera angle that does a fun job of conveying the ferocity of what a rider endures, MXGP doesn't do a ton to impress visually considering the powerful platform of the PS4, on which we are seeing so many gorgeous games.

While this first - person detective cross horror adventure is able to come up with novel concepts from time to time, it immediately tosses them away to instead tell a confusing and generic narrative that isn't helped by its monotonous gameplay.

Pirtle was among a group who benefitted from a novel program at the time called «housing first» as the initial step of transitioning people from the streets to shelter.