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In alternating chapters, the novel tells the stories of two different characters: a nameless novelist on tour for a book also titled Hell of a Book, and an African-American child named Soot. Soot, who lives near Whiteville , North Carolina , is being bullied on the school bus, while the novelist is troubled by visions of a child he calls "The ...
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Jack Higgins was born Henry Patterson [4] on 27 July 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne to an English father and a Northern Irish mother. [1] When his father abandoned them soon afterward, his mother returned with him to her home town of Belfast, Northern Ireland, to live with her mother and her grandfather on the Shankill Road.
Image credits: QAFY The loss of nature and green spaces creates the “heat island effect,” where urban areas get significantly hotter than the countryside. As a result, disasters like heatwaves ...
"Hell Screen" is narrated by a mostly uninvolved servant who witnesses or hears of the events. The plot of "Hell Screen" centers on the artist Yoshihide. Yoshihide is considered “the greatest painter in the land”, [4] and is often commissioned to create works for the Lord of Horikawa, who also employs Yoshihide's daughter in his mansion, and is rumoured to be taking her as his mistress.
[7] In a book review of Wandering Realities published in BYU Studies, Scott R. Parkin described Peck as maybe "the most important Mormon fiction writer producing today." [ 8 ] He wrote that Peck's works are by people who identify with Mormonism to the extent that they no longer question their own identity as a Mormon, and react to conflict ...
The novel concludes with the final chapter with Daniel's latest comic, showing a father reunited with his daughter, after saving her from the depths of hell. The main plot and subplots are juxtaposed throughout the book with Daniel's latest comic, entitled The Tenth Circle , which parallels with Daniel's life and the novel itself.
More Than This was reviewed favourably by critics and readers. Martin Chilton of The Daily Telegraph describes the novel as "an impressively challenging and philosophical book for young adults," capturing "ambiguity and bewilderment of being young and the uncertainty of what will happen to any of us next in life."