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The book was mildly controversial for using a living person, the reclusive author J. D. Salinger, as a main character. Kinsella, who had never met him, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his reclusiveness) based on The Catcher in the Rye, a book that had great meaning to him as a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he reread his ...
A review in Australian Book Review of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray wrote "With its strong emotional pull and its accessible female hero, this novel deserves wide appeal.". [1] A reviewer for Guardian Australia called it "a novel of the myopia and cruelty of “good” intentions." and "a joyful love story, and a literary celebration of the ...
The Dream of Reason was "both popular and critically well received" according to the Australian Book Review. [2] Kirkus Reviews said it was a "[s]uperbly literate, wide-ranging survey" that "rescues philosophy from the dusty textbooks". It is "[a]necdotal", at times "breezy", "resolutely and refreshingly nonacademic" according to the review. [7]
Dreams of Joy is a 2011 novel by Lisa See. It debuted as #1 in the New York Times list of best selling fiction. [1] In this book See completes the circle she began in Shanghai Girls. See's novel uses Mao's China as her background, but her story focuses on the change and growth of her main characters – Pearl, Joy, Z.G., and May.
Animal Dreams features Kingsolver's trademark—alternating perspectives throughout the novel. Most chapters are told from the perspective of Codi, while others are told from her father, Homer's, perspective. The book was dedicated to Ben Linder, who was killed by the Contras on April 28, 1987. The novel features some Hispanic and Native ...
The book was adapted as an animated short film of the same name in 2005 by Michael Sporn for Weston Woods Studios, Inc [2] and it was narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal.The film received the Audience Choice Award for best short film at the 2005 Heartland Film Festival, [3] and the award for Best Short Animation Made for Children at the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Priscilla was just 14 years-old ...
Behold the Dreamers is a 2016 debut novel by Imbolo Mbue. [1] The novel details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial crisis: an immigrant family from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and their wealthy employers, the Edwards family.