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The Ferryman is a 2023 dystopian fiction novel by Justin Cronin. The protagonist, Proctor Bennett, is a titular "ferryman", responsible for transporting elderly citizens to be reborn. Proctor gradually realizes that his utopian life is not what it seems. The Ferryman is Cronin's first novel since 2016's The City of Mirrors.
Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written six novels: Mary and O'Neil, The Ferryman, and The Summer Guest, as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors.
The series forms a continuing storyline, and each book can lead the reader to different starting points in the following volume depending on which ending is reached. Into the Hollow Earth by Anson Montgomery (2008) Burned by the Inner Sun by Anson Montgomery (2008) Paying the Ferryman by Anson Montgomery (announced but never published)
The production transferred to the Gielgud Theatre, opening on 29 June 2017, following previews from 20 June. [3] After a first cast change on 9 October 2017 with William Houston (Quinn Carney), Sarah Greene (Caitlin Carney), Ivan Kaye (Tom Kettle) and others joining the company, [6] a second cast change took place on 8 January 2018, featuring Rosalie Craig (as Caitlin Carney), Owen McDonnell ...
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin; The Astrologer who Fell into a Well; The Bald Man and the Fly; The Bear and the Travelers; The Beaver; The Belly and the Other Members; The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird ...
For his performance as Michael Carney in The Ferryman, Fee was awarded the 2018 WhatsOnStage Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Play. [5] In the spring of 2018, he filmed the role of Jim in the movie adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth's novel Animals, directed by Sophie Hyde, starring alongside Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. Filming took ...
In this poem, the ferryman Harbard and the god Thor compete in a flyting or verbal contest with one other. The ferryman Hárbarðr (Greybeard) is rude and obnoxious towards Thor who is returning to Asgard after a journey in Jötunheimr, the land of the jötnar. Hárbarðr obstructs his way and refuses him passage across a swollen river.
Who Pays the Ferryman? is a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series alludes to the ancient religious belief and mythology surrounding Charon, the ferryman to Hades. In antiquity, it was customary to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation, symbolizing payment for the ferryman's service to ...