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An Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame.Originally produced as a television miniseries, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Alexia Keogh (child), Karen Fergusson (teenager), and Kerry Fox (adult).
The Road to Character is the fourth book written by journalist David Brooks. Brooks taught an undergraduate course at Yale University for three years during the 2010s on humility, the subject of this book. [1] Published in 2015, the author says, "I wrote it, to be honest, to save my own soul."
Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, [1] New Zealand's highest civil honour.
David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) [1] is a Canadian-born American book author and political and cultural commentator. Self-described as an ideologic moderate, others have characterised his regular contributions to the PBS NewsHour, as opinion columnist for The New York Times [2] [page needed] [3] [better source needed] and other work as being centrist, conservative, or moderate conservative.
Top of the Lake is a mystery drama television series created and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, and directed by Campion and Garth Davis.It was broadcast in 2013, and the sequel, entitled Top of the Lake: China Girl, in 2017. [3]
An Angel at My Table (1991), directed by Jane Campion; Big Business (1929), with Laurel and Hardy, directed by James W. Horne and Leo McCarey; The Bill Douglas Trilogy: My Childhood (1972), directed by Bill Douglas; The Boot (1993), directed by Mohammad-Ali Talebi; Children in the Wind (1937), directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
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The book made a deep impression upon the British Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader at the time, David Cameron. Cameron instructed all members of his Cabinet to read the book. He created a seminar at 10 Downing Street so that Brooks, while promoting the book in the UK, could speak directly to the Minister and his closest advisers ...