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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
A Long Way Gone was nominated for a Quill Award in the Best Debut Author category for 2007. Time magazine's Lev Grossman named it one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2007, ranking it at No. 3, and praising it as "painfully sharp", and its ability to take "readers behind the dead eyes of the child-soldier in a way no other writer has."
A Long Way Down (originally titled Up & Down) is a 2014 black comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil, loosely based on author Nick Hornby's 2005 novel of the same name. It stars Pierce Brosnan , Toni Collette , Imogen Poots , and Aaron Paul .
A Long Way Off is a 2014 Christian drama film starring Robert Davi, Edie McClurg, John Diehl and Jason Burkey. The film was released on June 6, 2014, by CMD Distribution . [ 4 ] The film is a modern retelling of The Prodigal Son Parable .
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Long Way Down is a young adult novel in verse by Jason Reynolds, published October 24, 2017, by Atheneum Books. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award [ 1 ] and was named a Printz Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Honor Book, and Newbery Medal Honor Book, [ 2 ] alongside other awards and positive reviews.
The movie is an adaptation of Humberto G. Garcia’s 2012 book, “Mustang Miracle.” To research the book, Garcia spent four years interviewing the former San Felipe players and reading ...
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