Sentences with phrase «profoundly moving book»

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season.

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Josiah's secretary, Shaphan, reads the book to the king, who is profoundly moved by the disparity between present practice and the book's, admonition (22:11 - 13).

The result is a profoundly moving and thought - provoking book about how parents can bridge differences with their children — but it's also about how groups of people who seem very different from each other can use their own experiences to develop empathic connection and find common ground.

Adapting a short - story collection by James Franco, Coppola preserves the episodic structure of the book, allowing her camera to move among the characters with a breezy sense of freedom: April (Emma Roberts), the intelligent yet vulnerable good - girl lured into an affair with her charismatic but creepy soccer coach, Mr. B. (played by Franco); Teddy (Jack Kilmer) who's in trouble with the law and in love with April; Fred (Nat Wolffe), Teddy's cocky, bad - influence sidekick; and Emily (Zoe Levin), the profoundly sad school slut who freely dispenses blow jobs in place of genuine connection.

«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.

Lorrie Moore's characters are always interesting and believable, and she peppers her profoundly moving story with great humor and in so doing has created my favorite kind of book, one that is both funny and poignant and provokes thought.