Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Edmund Valentine White III (born January 13, 1940) is a gay American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer and essayist. He is the recipient of Lambda Literary's Visionary Award, the National Book Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, [1] and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. [2]
Publishers Weekly called the book "a satisfying if not happy end to the series." [6] Similarly, Kirkus Reviews called it "A dark and devastating conclusion." [7] Booklist called the book "a poignant conclusion" and included the book on their list of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels of 2021.
The series incorporates actual events and characters from the time period in the narrative. The four stories were published as a posthumous volume, The Saga of Andy Burnett , in 1947, and were adapted into several episodes of The Wonderful World of Disney during 1957 and 1958, starring Jerome Courtland as Andy Burnett, and Jeff York (Mike Fink ...
The two are unaware that they are half-brothers and are on opposing sides of South Africa's white community. The story opens in the days of the depression, with Centaine Courtney fighting to keep her mine and her company afloat financially competing against the dominance of the De Beers diamond company and their set diamond selling quotas.
Writing Footloose’s book-burning scene. The memorable scene highlights the evolution of antagonist Rev. Shaw Moore (John Lithgow), who convinces his congregation to shun anything he deems as ...
The Burning Room is the 27th [citation needed] novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the seventeenth novel featuring Los Angeles Police Department detective Harry Bosch. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The book was published by Little, Brown and Company on November 3, 2014 .
Quartet: New Voices from South Africa. Short stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive and Alf Wannenburgh. 15: Cook, David: 1965 Various: Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology devised and edited by David Cook. Prose and verse. 16: Achebe, Chinua: 1965 Novel: Arrow of God: 17: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James) 1965 Novel: The ...
White Book of Sarnen, a Swiss collection of medieval manuscripts; White Book – German Occupation of Poland, an Extract of Note Addressed to The Allied and Neutral Powers; White Book (CD standard), a standard for video compact discs. The Little White Book a short collection of creeds by Ben Klassen, founder of the Creativity sect