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Most of the stories are related to Crutcher's early work and often come from his experience as a family counselor. [1] This book also contains the short story "A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune" which first appeared in Connections, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 by Delacorte Press. It was adapted into the film Angus. The ...
Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald.MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty.
Endless Night is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) [ 4 ] and the US edition at $4.95. [ 3 ]
“Nightmusic” is from a first-person point-of-view, present tense, by a child narrator. The story is presented in eight parts. Part 1: A five-year-old musician is being groomed to observe a formal performance from the only instrument that he fears: the trumpet.
[5] [6] 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 ...
The horror stories in A Tree of Night and Other Stories involve recurring themes of isolation and emotional anxiety. The protagonists are not quite ready to grow up, whether they are adults or children. The adult characters are emotionally isolated and bear unresolved emotional conflicts from childhood.
"Nightfall" [1] is a 1941 science fiction short story by the American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has appeared in many anthologies and six collections of Asimov stories.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro's first collection of short stories, though it is described by the publisher as a "story cycle". As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and musicians, and the close of day.