Word: novelizations
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...simultaneously challenging and forbidding, and Gabriel was typed unfairly as an elitist working in a populist form. Biko began breaking this image down, and the So album has put it to rest forever. The process has received no little help from the raucous Sledgehammer video, which shows Gabriel in novel, self-mocking form, acting like a live-action cartoon surrounded by some nicely berserk animation. "I was lying under glass with a steel pole supporting my head," Gabriel reports. "We'd work 16 hours a day, for eight days, shooting almost frame by frame. It was very painful...
Both Kaufer and Weinberg said they were astounded when they read “The Naked and the Dead,” Mailer’s first novel, a vivid depiction of war based on Mailer’s experience as a soldier in the Pacific in World...
Mailer would go on to write over 30 books, but both roommates said “The Naked and the Dead”—a World War II novel that the writer published when he was only 25—was their favorite...
After ten years of silence, Peter Høeg’s fifth novel “The Quiet Girl” hits Danish and international public alike in the form of a loud and eclectic pseudo-thriller. Labeled as post-modern, magical-realist, social realist, and gothic (to name but a few), dismissed by some as new-age pop philosophy while hailed by others as an astute criticism of civilization in general, it seems that the only agreement that can be reached is that Peter Høeg’s work is hard to place.In answer to accusations...
...work of one of the literary geniuses of the last century. In the hands of Joel and Ethan Coen, however, these suspicions could not land further from the truth. “No Country for Old Men,” an adaptation of McCarthy’s 2005 novel, will disappoint few. After a stunning string of flops, including 2003’s “Intolerable Cruelty” and 2004’s “The Ladykillers,” the Coen brothers’ latest venture surpasses stylistic expectations. McCarthy’s work is known...