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In Wild Game, Brodeur recounts how Brodeur helped her mother conceal her affair beginning in 1980 when Brodeur was 14. [2] [3] Brodeur's mother Malabar Brewster was a food writer for The Boston Globe, [4] and the book's title comes from the name of an unproduced cookbook Brewster planned to write with her husband, Charles, her lover, Ben Southern, a hunter, and Ben's wife, Lily.
Adrienne Brodeur [1] is an American writer. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me and the novel Little Monsters (2023), as well as the novel Man Camp (2005). [2]
The book consists of two different stories, told in non-linear fashion in alternating chapters, which contain both parallels and contrasts. Wild Palms starts in New Orleans in 1937 with Harry, an impoverished and virginal intern finishing his training in a hospital. At a party he meets Charlotte, who abandons her husband and two children to run ...
Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent", which appeared in the January 1993 issue of Outside. [2] The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2007, directed by Sean Penn with Emile Hirsch starring as McCandless.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
December 4, 2012: Wild was voted No. 1 book of 2012 in the "Memoir and Autobiography" category in the "Goodreads Choice Awards 2012." [6] January 2013: Wild was selected as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4, where a five-episode abridgement of the book was read. [7] 2013: Wild spent 52 weeks on the NPR Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List. [8]
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.
Northern Lights (titled The Golden Compass in North America and some other countries) is a young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK.Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious ...