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Both books tell the real-life story of “passing” that I’ve thought about for a long time after reading. I wonder whether the authors truly captured the essence of person they based the story ...
A Man on the Inside is based on the real-life story of widower Sergio Chamy, who at 83 years old, was hired by private eye Rómulo Aitken to go undercover as a resident at a nursing home in Chile ...
Aadujeevitham (English: Goat Days [4] or The Goat Life) is a 2008 Malayalam-language novel by Indian author Benyamin. It is about an abused Malayali migrant worker employed in Saudi Arabia as a goatherd against his will. [5] [6] The novel is based on real-life events and was a best seller in Kerala. [7]
This is Ted Chiang's second collection of short works, after the 2002 book Stories of Your Life and Others. Exhalation: Stories contains nine stories exploring such issues as humankind's place in the universe, the nature of humanity, bioethics, virtual reality, free will and determinism, time travel, and the uses of robotic forms of A.I. [1] Seven tales were initially published between 2005 ...
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (published in the United Kingdom & Australia as Nonfiction) is a non-fiction book by Chuck Palahniuk, published in 2004. It is a collection of essays, stories, and interviews written for various magazines and newspapers. Some of the pieces had also been previously published on the internet.
We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In his memoir, "Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero" (Post Hill Press), actor Steve Guttenberg writes about his ...
James Arthur Anderson describes "Cookie Jar" as "more literary than King's other fiction" and "an excellent story". [4] Stephen J. Spignesi notes that Cookie Jar" shares a similar framing device as Blockade Billy and The Green Mile, with "a retired senior citizen recounting an epic story from his past". [2]
A Barthelme collection like 'Sixty Stories' is a Whole Earth Catalogue of life in our time." [1] In The New York Times Book Review, critic John Romano called Barthelme a "comic genius," adding, "The will to please us, to make us sit up and laugh with surprise, is greater than the will to disconcert. The chief thing to say about Barthelme ...