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Black Swan Green is a semi-autobiographical novel written by David Mitchell, published in April 2006 in the U.S. and May 2006 in the UK.The bildungsroman's thirteen chapters each represent one month—from January 1982 through January 1983—in the life of 13-year-old Worcestershire boy Jason Taylor.
Dad is the second novel by the American novelist William Wharton. It is "a story of fathers and sons drawn from [the author's own] relationship with his own dying father". [1] The novel was published in 1981 following Birdy (1978). It deals with a Paris-based American artist who is called to his mother's bedside as she has had a serious heart ...
Smek for President!, a sequel billed as "Book Two of the Smek Smeries ", was released by Disney Hyperion on February 10, 2015, along with an audiobook edition read by Bahni Turpin. [2] The novel follows Tip and J.Lo on an impromptu summer vacation to New Boovworld, where J.Lo seeks a pardon from Captain Smek, but instead finds himself a pawn in ...
In the book’s first essay, Chabon opens up about a writer he met who warned him not to have kids, because for every child you have, “you lose a book” and called children “notorious thieves ...
Jack Levine writes about the life lessons he learned from his dad, who lost his sight when Levine was a young child.
Wonderstruck (2011) is an American young-adult fiction novel written and illustrated by Brian Selznick, who also created The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007). In Wonderstruck, Selznick continued the narrative approach of his last book, using both words and illustrations — though in this book he separates the illustrations and the writings into their own story and weaves them together at the end.
The poster tagline for A Man Called Otto, the comedic drama starring Tom Hanks, reads: “Fall in love with the grumpiest man in America.”. Suffice to say Hanks is playing against type in the ...
Skellig is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998.It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding children's book by a British author. [3]