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It depicts the story of a seventeen-year-old African American boy named Andrew "Andy" Jackson, who feels deeply guilty for inadvertently causing his best friend Robert "Rob" Washington's death through drunk driving. The story is told through multiple different formats such as journal entries, first person narratives, and newspaper articles.
A Thousand Deaths (London short story) Jack London: 1899 A Toy for Juliette: Robert Bloch: Dangerous Visions: 1967 A Walk in the Sun (short story) Geoffrey A. Landis: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1991 A Work of Art: James Blish: Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury
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Flowers for Algernon, short story and novel by Daniel Keyes (short story 1959, novel 1966) To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by Harper Lee (1960) Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls (1961) A Clockwork Orange, a novel by Anthony Burgess (1962) The Learning Tree, novel by Gordon Parks (1963) The Graduate, novel by Charles Webb (1963)
The story is about a man who picks up a hitch-hiker whilst driving to London. The pick-pocketing of a policeman's notebook during a traffic stop closely follows "Hitch-Hike", a 1960 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents based on a short story by Ed Lacy. It was adapted as the 13th episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
Daly is a teen writing for teens and her work influenced other writers to write specifically with the young adult audience in mind. Dwight Burton claims that, because Daly was so near adolescence herself, "Seventeenth Summer captures better than any other novel, the spirit of adolescents." [3] The book was controversial for its time.
Episode 8 of the anime Martian Successor Nadesico is named for and takes elements from the story. The story formed the basis for a 1996 made-for-TV movie starring Billy Campbell and Poppy Montgomery, which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel. [18] It is the basis of the award-winning 2014 short film, "The Stowaway", [19] which was released on YouTube. [20]
Starter for Ten by David Nicholls is a novel first published in 2003 about the character Brian Jackson and his first year of university (1985–86), his attempts to get on the Granada Television quiz show University Challenge, and his tentative attempts at romance with Alice Harbinson, another member of the University Challenge team. [1]