Sentences with phrase «novel moved people»

I think Whitehead was hoping to move us the way Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel moved people of her day, to look around at our society today and recognize the human tragedy that racism is, for blacks and whites alike.

Not exact matches

Here too our novel world situation, where both people and books now move freely across cultural frontiers, has been pushing comparative religion writers towards a greatly increased personalization in what they write.

Second, we move on toward the time when as living persons we will be no more.34 This means that all the beauty we have known will have only the most trivial value for the future.35 It also means that the compensation of novel experiences is nearing its end.

Four people with paraplegia are able to voluntarily move previously paralyzed muscles as a result of a novel therapy that involves electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Launched in 2013 by Creative Freaks, a Kyoto - based indie developer, the game takes the popular otome format (first - person visual romance novels) and adds a fitness twist: You progress the story by doing sit - ups, squats, and other basic moves.

The Faulkner novel it most closely resembles is The Sound and the Fury, which unfolds over four days, beginning with the viewpoint of the character who understands the least about the events taking place — an idiot named Benjy — before moving backward in time to the viewpoint of Benjy's brother Quentin, then forward to the viewpoint of a third brother the day before Benjy's narrative, and concluding with a third - person description of the day after Benjy's account.

Lawrence (the director) and Haythe dropped one of Matthew's most intriguing ideas, Dominika's synesthesia (she can «read» people via emotion - revealing colors)-- an idea former video music director Francis Lawrence could have surely visualized in a novel, engaging manner — altogether while overextending Dominika's stay at the Sparrow School (a plus for salacious voyeurs, a negative for moviegoers interested in forward - moving stories and character building or development).

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...

Although it's told entirely in the third person, the novel moves fluidly back and forth between Stella and Gerry's perspectives, revealing how they perceive each other and hinting at a traumatic incident they experienced some four decades ago in Northern Ireland when Stella was pregnant with their son, Michael.

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.

Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld In this grippingly original novel Yuri Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make - with their feet, in their minds, and in their language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back.

This moving novel won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

«An engrossing tale [that] provides plenty of food for thought» (People, Best New Books pick), this playful, wise, and profoundly moving second novel from the internationally bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tracks the beautifully complicated arc of a romantic partnership.

If, in the process of publishing these novels, you're able to gain some true fans, the types of people who tell their friends about your work, you might find that 50 sales a month per novel is very beatable (with a little spent on advertising here and there, my EE novels are still selling 300 + a month, though I've completed the series and moved on to other things).

The novel did keep me guessing until the end that is for sure, but I was especially moved by Castillo's depth of thought and her honest approach to the conflicts that exist in the hearts of the Amish people (Becky M).

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!

It's a funny, intriguing and ultimately moving novel about a man whose job (of firing people in so gentle a manner that they're supposed to almost not notice they're being fired) requires him to travel so much that he doesn't have a home — he lives in airports.

If you do break into the thousands - of - sales range (single book, within a year of launch), it is a sign that you've moved beyond your direct sphere of influence — people are buying your book because they like the novel (not the author).

Best - selling author Rachel Ann Nunes has crafted a wonderfully intriguing and romantic drama in this fast - moving novel, bringing two idealistic people together...

Most of the game will be played either as a visual novel - style where you can choose to talk to people, look around, or move to another location all whilst finding out more information on the current events.