Sentences with phrase «unnamed narrator»

When corpses begin to appear in a chilling state - run school for orphaned boys, the novel's unnamed narrator begins an investigation that steadily builds in surrealist horror.

Tuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife?known only as she.

His 50 - something unnamed narrator finds himself back in his childhood home of Sussex, yet the trip takes a strange turn as he becomes entangled in the memories of his childhood past — the catalyst for his magical adventure.

With interior art by Cameron Stewart and covers from David Mack, the series picks up ten years after the events of the novel, finding the previously unnamed narrator (now going by the name «Sebastian») and Marla married, and judging from the first teaser image by Stewart — found exclusively on CBR — they're expecting a new addition to their family.

When corpses begin to appear in a strange state - run school for orphaned boys, the novel's unnamed narrator begins an investigation that steadily builds in surrealist horror.

At this point, all Palahniuk will say is that the story picks up with the unnamed narrator's marriage to Marla Singer (played by Helena Bonham Carter in the film) and has a 9 - year - old son named Junior.

Less mysterious is the true identity of the film's unnamed narrator, who leaves the listener of her story suitably traumatized, but with no clear moral to take away, save perhaps: Listen to your mother and you won't end up getting divorced, or getting an STD, or both.

When the unnamed narrator is 8 years old and her brother, Ned, 12, their mother leaves the children alone one night, ostensibly to celebrate her birthday with friends.

Award - winning illustrator and first - time author Nelson's history of the Negro Leagues, told from the vantage point of an unnamed narrator, reads like an old - timer regaling his grandchildren with tales of baseball greats Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and others who forged the path toward breaking the race barrier before Jackie Robinson made his historic debut.

Piecing together the answers is an unnamed narrator who must come to grips with his own interpretation of himself and those around him.

Some savvy readers will figure out the identity of the unnamed narrator quite early, while others may be initially frustrated by the disorienting chapters, wondering what they're doing there.

It might be tempting to label the unnamed narrator, a young man in his late twenties or early thirties, as the novel's protagonist, but that would be a mistake.

The unnamed narrator in Zadie Smith's Swing Time, our second fiction shortlist title, tells the entwined, if sometimes divergent, stories of herself and her childhood best friend, two «brown girls» growing up in London enthralled by dance, in a shrewdly funny, socially astute novel about the quest for meaning, creativity, and love.

Award - winning children's book creator Nelson offers a history of the Negro Leagues, told from the vantage point of an unnamed narrator, that reads as if an old - timer is regaling grandchildren with tales of baseball greats Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and others who forged the path toward breaking the race barrier before Jackie Robinson made his historic debut.

The story begins on an undisclosed island where the unnamed narrator and her father are the two newest and least liked members of a commune that has taken up residence there.

The friendship between Leah and Natalie was one of the high points of Smith's last novel, NW, and Swing Time is centered on a friendship between two women as well: an unnamed narrator and her friend, Tracy, who ends up pursuing the dance career that both women dreamed of as girls.

In Oblivion, the unnamed narrator travels to the abandoned uranimum mines on the outer edges of the Siberian taiga to discover the truth about Grandfather II, a family friend who played an important role in his upbringing.

Gaiman's hero is an unnamed narrator who returns to his childhood home as an adult and is flooded with memories of a farm at the end of the English country lane where he grew up.

Through 10 conversations, we learn the painful background story of the unnamed narrator, an author heading to Greece to teach a summer writing course.

The good news is that the unnamed narrator is going to get a pooch for his birthday; he simply needs to decide which type is best for...

In vignette - style chapters, our unnamed narrator wrestles with the misery of writing and his strange relationships to both his friends and to fiction.

For example, it is in a dacha bedroom, when she is talking to a close friend, that the unnamed narrator is convinced that what she does not want «is a small life, a life of mundane concerns.»

The unnamed narrator works as a translator, though we never learn her country of origin.

Contrary to other independent - minded literary heroines like Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening or the unnamed narrator in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story «The Yellow Wallpaper,» Jane is not actively shunning social expectations, but rather forced into a life of solitude by circumstances beyond her control.

In the Classroom: The unnamed narrator of Meg Medina's Tía Isa Wants a Car lives with her aunt and uncle in an apartment, while other family members still live far away.

«The subject of the new novel from Heti is neither birth nor child - rearing, but the question of whether to want a child, which the unnamed narrator calls «the greatest secret I keep from myself»....

In Smith's sophisticated and ambitious new page - turner, Swing Time, an unnamed narrator tries to make sense of her life and choices after being fired from her job as a personal assistant to a world - famous pop star, seeking answers in memories of a pivotal childhood friendship gone awry.

The story of an unnamed narrator trudging through the grass and sand, reading out letters meant for his dead wife, Esther, remains elusive and haunting, the exact time and place of the action obfuscated behind historical yarns and recollections, as though the island is exerting its own autobiography onto the telling.

The game's story is told in random bits and pieces by an unnamed narrator, in the manner of a letter written to his love, a woman named Esther.

Because Zelda games aren't voiced, and Hyrule Warriors is no exception apart from its unnamed narrator.

It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere objects.