Sentences with phrase «picaresque tale»

Bray's success comes on the heels of winning the Printz Medal for Going Bovine, a picaresque tale of a teenage boy searching for a cure for mad cow disease, but she is also known for her atmospheric Victorian - era series that started with A Great and Terrible Beauty and contains supernatural elements.

A picaresque tale for the 1970s with strong political leanings, it's also a satire, a set of Brechtian parables, a rock film, an ironic pilgrim's progress, etc., etc..

Tyrnauer's camera follows him over several months as he meets up with old colleagues — some of them from his L.A. Confidential-esque gas stations days — who corroborate his picaresque tales.

Not exact matches

Filled with Amy Tan's signature «idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery» (Los Angeles Times), Saving Fish from Drowning seduces the reader with a façade of Buddhist illusions, magician's tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picaresque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions - both good and bad - and about the shared responsibility that individuals must accept for the actions of others.

Campbell's own tale is more picaresque than gothic horror.