Word: novelizations
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...northern United States, the film is a plot-driven story about adult relationships, rather than the coming-of-age narratives that characterize his other films. While Green wrote original screenplays for each of his past films, he adapted “Snow Angels” from the novel of the same name by Stewart O’Nan. When asked during the question and answer session following the screenings whether he prefers adaptation to the self-conceived screenplays he penned previous to “Snow Angels,” Green said “Sometimes I feel creative...
...books to little-known, underground comics.But chances are, if you’re the average American, you don’t even know what “graphic novel” means. The term tends to refer to either bound collections of individual issues of comic books or actual novels written in comic-book format.TIME is hardly alone in assuming that the country is ready for comic book culture. This summer, Hollywood will try to replicate the success of recent movies inspired by superhero comics. “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight...
...been five years since Tobias Wolff’s last novel and over 10 years since his last collection of short stories. He has had time to hone, revise, even recreate his writing. So what’s new about the new stories in his latest book of short stories?Frankly, not much.Wolff was already a sophisticated writer a decade ago; his marginal improvement can only be that—marginal. His characters, his versatility, and—oh, God—his language are as mesmerizing as ever. But Wolff’s greatest strength...
...doesn’t stray very far from the familiar in “Snow Angels.” His characters emphasize once again the cold reality of human violence, which can even occur in the name of love. Based on Stewart O’Nan’s novel of the same name, the film takes place in a nameless small town. The story centers on Arthur Parkinson (Michael Angarano, “Seabiscuit”), a high school trombone player who must deal with the separation of his parents and the crumbling marriage of his ex-babysitter, Annie...
...debut Pulitzer-winning short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” and her novel “The Namesake,” Jhumpa Lahiri conceived of the Indian-American family of the 1970s as the product of India and America. These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise...