Sentences with phrase «of the best novel written»

The list of 12 books competing for the title of best novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom contains a few surprises:

Not exact matches

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

• 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.

After his conversion, he wrote a gripping historical novel, A Danger to the State, about the suppression of the Jesuits, which is among the best of its kind.

Such character - centered writing is a mark of good fiction in any genre, but in detective novels, where the author may feel enslaved to solution - hungry readers, it's especially rare.

I am not gonna comment on all these sick opinions,, I understand now that most of westerns oppose Islam, therefor they don't wan na hear anything good about it,, all they do they lie and believe their lies,, good for you guys but believe me no one in this world helps the US as Muslims do to the country in all important fields,, and please don't dare me to write novels what we've done to you and i am as a person from Saudi,, You should be thankful instead of your sick racist minds,, TRUST me no one can stop the huge flow of ISLAM anywhere,

What sorts of oppressions, for example, are being supported in novels of traditional realism, and what sort of «meaning» is being canonized when an ethicist writes that «the unity of the self is like the unity exhibited in a good novel»?

In the August issue of Bible Review magazine, Witherington noted the popular appeal that apocalyptic literature has in unsettling times, «Unfortunately, not all apocalyptic thinking is good apocalyptic thinking, and this is especially true of the so - called dispensational theology that informs these novels,» Witherington wrote.

By asserting the process - theoretic foundations of our world, we can maintain both science and God and thus escape the materialist malaise - perhaps never better expressed than in this brief excerpt from a work held by many to be the greatest novel ever written:

She used to do a lot of things, but now she writes novels and is still really good at shuffling cards.

Selected as Amazon's book of the year, and beautifully written, the 800 - page novel tells the story of Theo Decker and a famous painting — Carel Fabritius» seventeenth - century masterpiece, The Goldfinch — and how Theo's relationship with it transforms his life, for better and worse.

Of Innocent Blood (1980) James has said, «I wanted to write about the search for identity, revenge, redemption,... and therefore I decided this had better be a novel that wasn't a straightforward detective story and wouldn't feature Dalgleish.»

Writing the novel series for him, and traveling with him all over the country to promote it, I saw the softer side of a man famous for successful pastorates, the founding of Christian schools and a college, best - selling nonfiction books, and strong opinions.

And when a prospect that good whispers a sentence of the future, you get to write the rest of the novel.

A young boy thrown into a alien world, forced to improvise to find his way and gain approval: Roald Dahl might as well have been talking about the career of Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes in Russia when he wrote his classic children's novel.

She wrote not only political works and the well - known «Clash», but a crime novel set in Parliament and an entertaining and illustrated book of pen portraits of her Parliamentary colleagues, «Peeps at Politicians».

Hood's achievements also include writing and directing 2005's Tsotsi, an Oscar - winning adaptation of playwright Athol Fugard's only novel: a story of violence and redemption that many considered, well, unfilmable.

Unlike authors of best - selling novels, when Mother Nature writes a mystery, she often keeps us from finding the whole answer.

By using novel strategies of data acquisition and analysis, writing my own algorithms for data analysis, and of course also using existing bioinformatics knowledge to the best of my capabilities, I was able to successfully contribute to the advancement of microalgal and fungal bioinformatics and systems biology research.

This is a «novel finding,» they wrote (pun intended), and good news for book lovers in more ways than one: «The robustness of our findings suggest that reading books may not only introduce some interesting ideas and characters, it may also give more years of reading.»

In fact, Buddhism became a theme in many of his works, including an unpublished biography of Siddhartha Gautama he wrote in 1955 titled Wake Up: A Life of the Buddha, and his 1958 semi-fictional novel, The Dharma Bums, as well as a poem entitled «How to Meditate.»

It's a true story about well - known man in the fashion industry who became a paraplegic and learned to communicate and write a novel with the blink of his eye.

You don't need to write a novel, but more information is better than a lack of.

I'm that semi weird - say what I'm thinking - love what I'm doing - stand up for what's right - crazy dirt bike riding - wake boarding - dune chaser - yoga lover - weight lifting - novel writing - pool loving - painter (not very well - lol)- single mom to an amazing son (I still have plenty of time off) well...

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Open - minded; laid - back; casual; an Army veteran as well as Army brat; and I write erotic novels / do computer research for a living (am college educated with degrees in areas of Geography, English, and Communications).

The answer to that may seem obvious, but just in case it isn't let me say: writing a great He is the author of The First 50 Pages and Write Your Novel it's a good thing, and if your 10 thoughts on «4 Approaches for the First Chapter

Yale professor and well - known literary critic Harold Bloom wrote in 2000 that the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997), was clichéd and «not well written» and that Rowling reconceived Thomas Hughes» Victorian novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857) through the «magical mirror of Tolkien.»

After writing for The Wire and Boardwalk Empire and having three of his novels made into a trio of well - reviewed movies (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island), Dennis Lehane has finally written his first screenplay.

Based on Kathryn Stockett's best selling novel of the same name, «The Help» tells the story of a young white woman, Eugenia «Skeeter» Phelan (played by Emma Stone), and her decision to write a controversial book from the point of view of the help (the maids).

But being someone who's just never really felt attuned to the art of the graphic novel, throughout I couldn't help but think that even the best panel of Persepolis might be substituted by a better written description of the same represented event or emotion.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Koepp, best known for writing blockbusters like Jurassic Park, Spider - Man, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, previously directed Depp in the Stephen King novel adaptation Secret Window.

Though only two of the four stories featured are from Frank Miller's graphic novels — the titular centerpiece «A Dame to Kill For» and the Marv - centric prelude «Just Another Saturday Night» — the best of the bunch (featuring Joseph Gordon - Levitt's perpetually lucky gambler) is an original story written by Miller for the movie.

OUR TAKE: This one has a dynamite cast (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Corey Stoll, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard and Abigail Spencer), a good director in Shawn Levy (Real Steel, Night at the Museum)- and the author of novel (Jonathan Tropper) is the one writing the screenplay.

The book, written by Irish author Colm Tóibín, was named one of the «10 best historical novels» by The Observer, and Nick Hornby adapted the title for the screen.

Evan Hunter (The Birds, Strangers When We Meet) would adapt one of his own «87th Precinct» novels that he had written under the name of Ed McBain, but whatever fun is to be had in reading the original source material didn't translate well to the screen.

The original novel was quite good, and was written by the writer who penned the source novel for THE SECRET OF NIMH.

Based on a best - selling novel, the movie follows three women who form an unlikely friendship, and shatter their southern town's unspoken rules of etiquette through a secret writing project.

-- Gina Prince - Bythewood wrote and directed this moving drama, based on the best - selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, about a 14 - year old girl (Dakota Fanning) who, longing to find out more about her deceased mother, runs away from rural South Carolina home and winds up in the care of a beekeeper (Queen Latifah) and her sisters (Alicia Keys, sophie Okonedo).

Ever the chameleon, Haynes (who has made throwback 50's melodramas, glam rock pastiches and high concept Bob Dylan biopics) has set his camera's eye on the world of children, adapting an illustrated book by Brian Selznick, best known for writing the novel that would become Martin Scorsese's flight of fancy, Hugo.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.

Well, Jesse Andrews (author of novel and Black Listed script «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl») has signed on to write the screenplay.

If you are not aware of it, «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter» is actually based on the New York Times Best Selling novel by Seth Grahame - Smith, author of «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» (who also wrote this screenplay).

Garland is best known for writing the scripts for several of Danny Boyle's films including 28 Days Later and Sunshine (The Beach was also adapted from Garland's own novel).

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The best - selling novel was written by Matt Bondurant, the Grandson of one the infamous siblings and adapted for the screen by singer Nick Cave.

The extremely popular young adult novel Divergent was written by first time author Veronica Roth and has topped the New York Times Best Sellers list ever since being published in May of 2011 by Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers.

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

The 2008 novel was written as a series of letters and reached the number one position on the New York Times Best Seller List for paperback.