Sentences with phrase «novel of wrenching»

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Her heart - breaking, riveting and poignantly honest memoir, Some Girls, has now been topped by her debut novel, Pretty a heart - wrenching story of of Bebe Baker, a heroine on a street - level search for salvation.

The cat - and - mouse nature of their relationship is the only thing in Red Sparrow that feels like a genuine throwback to the novel; the rest of it is all wrenching torture scenes.

Interpolating the last day of Mishima's life with scenes from his wrenching novels and his youth, Schrader evokes films like Kurosawa's Rashoman and Kobayashi's Kwaidan, while also exploring the themes of masculinity, honor and dedication that resonate both in Japanese culture and in the director's other work.

He overwhelmed the delicate emotional timbres of Atonement, Ian McEwan's wrenching wonder of a novel, with Dario Marianelli's clacking score and a heap of overeager visual ta - das, most notably a stunningly mounted but largely unnecessary five - minute tracking shot on the beaches of — you guessed it — Dunkirk.

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...

This wrenching story of grief, love and ghosts captivated our reviewer, who said the book «reads like a suspense novel and will keep you turning pages longer than is good for you.

The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson «Part thriller, part love story, part tale of daring impersonation, part wrenching examination of repression and its toll on human nature, the novel is set in North Korea (with a side trip to Texas).»

Given the heart wrenching and emotional topic of the book, in what ways was the research process more challenging than for your previous novels?

Both a warning and a tribute to the importance of the relationship between a father and daughter, this novel is a heart - wrenching depiction of the painful influence of this particular parent on a vulnerable child under his care.

Now fourteen years have passed, and in acclaimed author David Hewson's stunning new crime novel the heart - wrenching case has come back to life as Detective Nic Costa and his fellow investigators search through layers of their city's history — for a killer leaving a trail of bodies, lust, and revenge.

- Publishers Weekly «The Old West comes alive in heart - wrenching, violent, and wicked racist color... Legal thriller and western fans will stay with it to the last page... Margolin's novel offers a compelling portrait of small town justice done right.»

Ullman's descriptions of the Holocaust and these camps are evocative and heart - wrenching and one of the highlights of the novel.

If Tartt's wrenching portrait of a young boy coping with the loss of a parent was your favorite thing about The Goldfinch, pick up Foer's emotional second novel.

McCullough's exquisite novel in verse follows the heart - wrenching true story of gifted Roman painter Artemisia Gentileschi.

Music of the Ghosts by survivor Vaddey Ratner only touches on American culpability, but the grueling, heart - wrenching novel indicts any treatment of Cambodia as mere footnote.

A bestselling Australian writer's American debut and a heart - wrenching novel of World War I, painting a portrait of the changing role of women in medicine and the powerful legacy of love.

I was immediately wrenched out of my immersion, and ultimately paid as much attention to the narrative unfolding before me as Dan Brown does to researching his novels.

With outstanding art design, and a heart - wrenching narrative, STEINS; GATE is a critically - acclaimed visual novel that can be experienced time and time again thanks to its ensemble cast of engaging characters, featuring;