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White Oleander is a 1999 novel by American author Janet Fitch. In the fashion of a picaresque novel , it deals with themes of motherhood, telling the story of a girl named Astrid who is separated from her mother, Ingrid, and placed in a series of foster homes .
White Oleander was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video on March 11, 2003 and includes special features such as the theatrical trailer, interviews with the cast and creators, behind the scenes footage, deleted scenes, an audio commentary with Peter Kosminsky, John Wells and Janet Fitch, and Cast and Crew film highlights.
Janet Fitch (born November 9, 1955) [1] is an American author. She wrote the novel White Oleander, which became a film in 2002.She is a graduate of Reed College. [2]Fitch was born in Los Angeles, a third-generation native, and grew up in a family of voracious readers.
Lohman was subsequently cast in White Oleander, an adaptation of Janet Fitch's novel, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. Due to her previous haircut, [12] she had to wear a wig during filming. [11] Released in 2002, White Oleander earned positive reviews, and Lohman's performance was met with widespread acclaim. [13]
White Rage became a New York Times Best Seller, [5] and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by The New York Times, [6] The Washington Post, [7] The Boston Globe, [8] and the Chicago Review of Books. [9] White Rage was also listed by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice, [10] and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism ...
Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. [ 1 ] Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street , the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as ...
Sotheby’s inaugural auction in Saudi Arabia — and the country’s first major international art and luxury auction — topped $17 million in sale, with works by Arab artists setting records.
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus. The novel is written as a series of journals chronicling the fictitious adventures of "J. Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.