Halfway through the novel, it becomes apparent that most of the characters are dead.
Ruby's death is signalled in the first few pages but is not described until more than halfway through the novel.
The names Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Fatty Arbuckle, Sophie Tucker, Charles Lindbergh, Walter Winchell, Sally Rand, Leopold and Loeb play through the novel's pages.
WSJ: The Old Bunch | Meyer Levin | Destiny's Children | Masterpiece by Joseph Epstein
The essence of this dichotomy survives the terse condensing the movie plows through as it takes the viewer through the first third of Rand's novel, up through the mini-climax delivered by the completion of the John Galt Line and the dramatic ignition of Wyatt's Torch.
Fans delight in the smallest hints of life off the court the way, for example, that Jim Courier, a former number one, leafed through a highbrow novel during the changeover.
And I was wondering if your guest had any advice for writers on, you know, muddling through the middle of a novel.
In order to get investors interested, SpringLeaf needed to get its hands on a large-molecule drug that had already been through the regulatory gamut so that its novel delivery system would greatly improve that mature drug by giving patients greater convenience and control and thus boosting sales of the combination.
Early-stage research, at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Pittsburgh, is looking into attacking acne through novel action mechanisms, such as harnessing viruses that naturally infect the acne-causing bacterium, which is known as Propionibacterium acnes.
WSJ: As More Adults Get Acne, New Photodynmic Treatments Use Light
The emotional force of a novel that has the power to grip a reader through many readings spread across multiple decades just cannot be delivered by a 112-minute movie.
FORBES: Atlas Shrugged Part II: Ideas That Tower Above Any Movie
Appears this is regulated in part through the reactivation of polycomb repressor complexes by novel histone demethylases.
Morrison, battling the flu and sniffling through much of the afternoon, was promoting the paperback edition of her novel "Home, " published last year.
Out On the Coast, that wonderful novel about the Hollywood studio system in its prime, seen through a prism of humor and pain, has not been matched to this day.
This bravura general explanation--of how a failing company and its toadying audit firm can cook the books through nonexistent revenue--is an expository tour de force and the core of the novel.
The author recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about novel writing's black magic, the ordeal her hometown went through this past week and the books she reads when nobody's looking.
According to older pilots, this useless statistic came into favour at the time of conversion to jet aeroplanes when the impact of flying over the weather, rather than through it, was novel.
Scaling the winning solutions through the SME Finance Innovation Fund is just the most immediate of the many benefits that are expected to emerge from this novel Challenge.
Where the novel slowly boils the frog, taking the reader through the operative arc of progressive politics, the movie tosses the frog into the pot without laying the groundwork.
Her novel begins before the first world war and concludes midway through the second.
Then again, how many of your neighbors have the attention span to make it through an 1, 100-page novel replete with 90-page philosophy screeds?
Based on a careful review of applications for novel therapeutic agents approved from 2001 through 2010, we found that the FDA was almost two months faster than the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada.
In the proto steampunk science fiction novel from 1970, time travel is achieved through just such a kind of perfectly art-directed recreation of a place and moment in time.
FORBES: Clive Palmer's Titanic II Is Something New, A Reenactment Of The 20th Century
And inspired by a gift from a friend, he'd started writing music to accompany the 1929 wordless graphic novel "God's Man, " told through a series of wood engravings by American artist Lynd Ward.
This newcomer gives the screen version of Janet Fitch's novel an emotional grounding it doesn't always deserve as she moves through the several stages of a hard-luck role that plays like "Oliver Twist" in Los Angeles (in a production that starts to get silly when it moves to Malibu).
If you've strolled through a bookstore, maybe while avoiding work on your great American novel, and walked into the section on writing, you can be forgiven if you never go back to your laptop.
You got the woman with the Coach purse and post nasal drip sitting next to me sniffling her way through a David Baldacci novel.
应用推荐