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Night is the first in a trilogy—Night, Dawn, Day—marking Wiesel's transition during and after the Holocaust from darkness to light, according to the Jewish tradition of beginning a new day at nightfall. "In Night," he said, "I wanted to show the end, the finality of the event. Everything came to an end—man, history, literature, religion, God.
Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories, [1] first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift won the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award .
City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. It was originally published in 1963 in New York by Grove Press. Earlier excerpts had appeared in Evergreen Review, Big Table, Nugget, and The London Magazine. City of Night is notable for its exposé approach to and stark depiction of hustling, as well as its stream of consciousness narrative style.
Yoder had not written for two years when she began writing Nightbitch. [1] She wrote it in part due to the anger she felt after becoming a mother and the resultant changes to her personal and professional life. [2] She was further inspired by a passage in Jenny Offill's novel Dept. of Speculation. [1]
Chapter 1: Odessa. Bissinger begins the book at the start of the 1988 football season in August and how Gaines is preparing for it. Bissinger then chronicles the history of Odessa. It was founded in the 1880s by land speculators from Zanesville, Ohio. They advertised the land as being as fertile farmland like in Kansas and Iowa. However, the ...
In season one of The Night Agent, Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) goes from manning an emergency phone in the White House to getting wrapped up in a massive government conspiracy. By the season's ...
[1] Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.
Nightjohn is a 1993 historical fiction novel by American author Gary Paulsen. [1] It is about Southern American slavery shortly before the time of the American Civil War . In 1996, it was later made into a movie of the same name .