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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.
Elizabeth Seeger writes in a biographical note about Mukerji that, "Gay-Neck was written in Brittany, where every afternoon he read to the children gathered about him on the beach the chapter he had written in the morning." [2] In an article in the children's literature journal The Lion and the Unicorn, Meena G. Khorana calls the novel one of ...
Writing in The Guardian, Andrew O'Hagan compared the work favorably to Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. [1] O'Brien has said she admires Woolf. [5]O'Brien has said had she been "sensitive" at the time of publication, she would have "[...] taken a razor to [herself]" in response to its reception at the time.
Upon release, The Night Watch was generally well received. On Metacritic, the book received a 82 out of 100 based on 19 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [1] On the July/Aug 2006 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) stars, with the critical summary stating, "For a few critics the risky narrative device robs the book of its suspense, but in the final tally most ...
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.
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. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this."
It is a young adult invasion literature novel, detailing the occupation of Australia by an unnamed foreign power. It continues the story started in Tomorrow, When the War Began . The novel is told in the first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerrilla ...
The Thirty Names of Night is a novel by Zeyn Joukhadar, published November 24, 2020 by Atria Books. The book received the Stonewall Book Award for Literature [ 1 ] and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction .