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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 ...
Mott's fourth and most critically acclaimed novel, Hell of a Book, was published by E. P. Dutton on June 29, 2021. [5] It is at times an absurdist and metafictional look into the complex and fraught African American experience. On November 17, 2021, the novel was awarded the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. [6]
An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.
Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations, the biggest examples of which are Christianity and Islam, whereas religions with reincarnation usually depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations, as is the case in the dharmic religions.
An English edition of Letters from Hell appeared in 1866, under the pseudonym of M Rowel. The translator was Rev. Mordaunt Roger Barnard. The book's title caused it to be banned by Mudie's circulating library. Letters from Hell went through several editions in the 19th century, one of which (1884) contained a preface by George MacDonald. [2]
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The narrator, unmarried and friendless, books a room in a Paris boarding house. By chance he finds a hole in his wall, through which he can see the adjoining room and its inhabitants. From the other side, he witnesses lesbianism, adultery , incest , thievery, vicious proselytizing and death, musing to the reader on the philosophical ...
Up to the release of the film in August 1953, the book had sold 400,000 copies and was selling an average of 500 copies a month. After the release of the film, sales increased to 4,000 copies a week. As the film toned down the strong language used in the book, it was suggested that sales may have been partly influenced by people wanting to find ...