"The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000, it was adapted into a film directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. In a cheap hotel on the Khao San Road in Bangkok, Richard, a young American backpacker, meets a mentally disturbed Scotsman going by the"
"On the Beach (novel) On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he immigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently. Shute's initial story appeared as a four-part series, ""The Last Days on Earth"", in the London weekly periodical ""Sunday Graphic"" in April 1957. For the novel, Shute expanded on the storyline."
"save lives in the event of a nuclear attack, in the mistaken belief that any precaution is futile. On the Beach (novel) On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he immigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently. Shute's initial story appeared as a four-part series, ""The Last Days on Earth"","
"Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter Styles in late 1934 at the Styles mansion on the shore of Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, New York City. Eddie is a former vaudeville performer who switched to become a stockbroker during the Roaring Twenties, then was"
"clever descriptive writing and inventive action—sustains the entertainment mightily"" The Mosquito Coast (novel) The Mosquito Coast is the most successful novel by American author Paul Theroux. Published in 1981 it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year. It was adapted into a 1986 film starring Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix. Theroux wrote the novel whilst living in London. Although he is rumoured to have based the main character Allie Fox on himself, he denied this in an interview for ""Atlantic Unbound"", saying he based the character on a number"
"Novels"" with the themes of ""moody gangster noir; sweeping WWII romance; classic New York immigrants’ tale; timeless story of the sea."" In the UK, the ""Guardian"" wrote that ""Manhattan Beach"" was a ""work of remarkable cinematic scope."" Manhattan Beach (novel) Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published in 2017 by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. ""Time"" magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. Eleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter"
"The House on the Beach The House on the Beach: A Realistic Tale is a novella by English novelist George Meredith. It first appeared in print in 1877. A young woman is forced by conscience to become inappropriately engaged to a far older man, who threatens to reveal the secret that her father was previously a deserter. Although the novella wasn't written until the late 1870s, Meredith had started the story 15 years prior. ""The House on the Beach"" was first published in ""New Quarterly"" magazine in January 1877, a magazine in which Meredith also published ""The Case of General"
"the Sea"" were reprinted in quality paperback editions as part of its ""Bluejacket Books"" series Beach married Ingrid Schenck, daughter of Stanford University professor Hubert G. Schenck and Inga Bergström Schenck, in Palo Alto in 1944. They had four children: Inga-Marie (1945–1948), Edward A. (b. 1948), Hugh S. (b. 1949) and Ingrid Alice (b. 1952). During his service in the United States Navy, Beach was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star with Gold Star in lieu of a second Silver Star, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star with a combat Distinguished ""V"" and Gold Star in lieu of"
"comfortable with it (the novel)."" ""The Beach"" has been translated into 25 different languages and sold close to 700,000 copies by the start of 1999. It would later be developed into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In 1998, Garland followed up ""The Beach"" with ""The Tesseract"", a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters set in Manila, Philippines. The novel is characterized by a post-modernist narrative style and structure. It explores several themes such as love and violence through each character's circumstance and context of surroundings as well as seemingly inconsequential actions and the repercussions of those actions on other characters."
"Alex Garland Alexander Medawar Garland (born 26 May 1970) is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel ""The Beach"", which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films ""28 Days Later"" (2002), ""Sunshine"" (2007), ""Never Let Me Go"" (2010) and ""Dredd"" (2012). In 2014, Garland made his directorial debut with ""Ex Machina"", a science fiction thriller which explores the relationship between mankind and artificial intelligence; the film earned him an Academy"
"Aimee Friedman Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., Point and S&S. Her novels South Beach (2004) (a ""New York Times"" bestseller), ""French Kiss"" (2005), and ""Hollywood Hills"" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent. She released ""Sea Change"" on June 1, 2009. ""A Novel Idea"" (2005) is a romantic comedy about a teenager who starts a book club in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Friedman wrote one of the four stories in the holiday"
"Rex Beach Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player. Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan, but moved to Tampa, Florida, with his family where his father was growing fruit trees. Beach was educated at Rollins College, Florida (1891–1896), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900). In 1900 he was drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His second novel ""The Spoilers"" (1906) was based on a"
"sister. Books By Aimee Friedman: Contributed to: Graphic Novel: As Ruth Ames: Aimee Friedman Aimee Friedman (born 1979) is the author of several young adult novels published by Scholastic Inc., Point and S&S. Her novels South Beach (2004) (a ""New York Times"" bestseller), ""French Kiss"" (2005), and ""Hollywood Hills"" (2007)and also The Year My Sister Got Lucky (2008) focus on the scandalous adventures of on-again, off-again best friends Holly Jacobson and Alexa St. Laurent. She released ""Sea Change"" on June 1, 2009. ""A Novel Idea"" (2005) is a romantic comedy about a teenager who starts a book club in Park"
"and a threat by Weymouth and Portland borough council to fine him £2,000 led the author to return the pebbles. ""I was not aware of having committed a crime,"" he said. ""Chesil Beach is beautiful and I'm delighted to return the shingle to it."" After it was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2007, where its entry generated controversy over its length—at 166 pages and fewer than 40,000 words—even the author declared it to be a novella. In the end, the prize went to ""The Gathering"". On 17 February 2016, it was announced that Saoirse Ronan, who previously played Briony"
"as ""Heart of Darkness"" and ""Lord of the Flies"", and the anonymous memoirs of an escaped Australian prisoner. Although set in Thailand, Garland wrote the book while living in the Philippines and in particular was inspired by similar geography on the island of Palawan . Novelist Nick Hornby referred to ""The Beach"" as ""a ""Lord of the Flies"" for Generation X"", and the ""Sunday Oregonian"" called it ""Generation X's first great novel"". ""The Washington Post"" wrote that it is ""a furiously intelligent first novel"" and ""a book that moves with the kind of speed and grace many older writers can"
"Cadillac Beach Cadillac Beach is the sixth novel written by Tim Dorsey, published in 2004. The year is 1996. At long last, Serge A. Storms has been captured. He is committed to the psychiatric hospital at Chattahoochee, where he patiently tries to explain his views. Serge grows tired of this diversion, however, and escapes once more. His newest obsession involves investigating the circumstances surrounding his grandfather's death forty years earlier, when he allegedly committed suicide by wandering into the ocean at a Miami beach. Serge's grandfather, who passed on many of his habits and interests (as well as his mental"
"friend of Serge's grandfather's named Chi Chi, and City and Country, a pair of dim-witted women that Serge ditched at the beginning of ""The Stingray Shuffle"", in 1998. Cadillac Beach Cadillac Beach is the sixth novel written by Tim Dorsey, published in 2004. The year is 1996. At long last, Serge A. Storms has been captured. He is committed to the psychiatric hospital at Chattahoochee, where he patiently tries to explain his views. Serge grows tired of this diversion, however, and escapes once more. His newest obsession involves investigating the circumstances surrounding his grandfather's death forty years earlier, when he"
"Brian Antoni Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel ""South Beach: The Novel"". ""South Beach: The Novel"" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades. His writing has also been included in the parody novel Naked Came the Manatee where he wrote one of the chapters. He also writes non fiction articles for travel magazines. Brian Antoni was born in Detroit, Michigan but was raised in Freeport Bahamas. His parents are from Trinidad. His sister is Janine Antoni a well known Bahamian artist. His brother Robert Antoni"
"Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also won three BIFA awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best British Independent Film. His second film, 2018's ""Annihilation"", based on the 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, was a critical success, but a box office failure. Garland was born in London, England, the son of psychologist Caroline (""née"" Medawar) and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland. He graduated from the University of Manchester with a degree in History of Art. His maternal grandfather is Nobel Prize-winning British biologist Peter Medawar. In 1996, Garland's first novel, ""The Beach"" was published. ""The Beach"" is based upon"
"Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on March 14, 1887, the second of three"
"Ocean Sea (novel) Ocean Sea () is a 1993 novel by the Italian writer Alessandro Baricco. Its narrative revolves around the lives of a group of people gathered at a remote seaside hotel. The novel won the Viareggio Prize. Richard Bernstein reviewed the book for ""The New York Times"", and wrote: """"Ocean Sea"" unfolds in its poetically elliptical way. Mr. Baricco is a literary cubist, a stylist who looks simultaneously at the several sides of things. He switches from one rhetorical mode to another, from a kind of symbolist poetry to grand adventure narrative to picaresque comedy."" Bernstein continued: ""This"
"is a well known Caribbean writer. Brian Antoni studied law at Emory University and got his law doctorate at Georgetown University. Although he never practiced as a lawyer he is well known for his published book ""South Beach: The Novel"". Brian Antoni currently lives in Miami Beach, New York City and Key West. Brian Antoni Brian Antoni is the author of the well regarded novel ""South Beach: The Novel"". ""South Beach: The Novel"" is based on Antoni's first hand knowledge of the resurgence of Miami Beach in the past two decades. His writing has also been included in the parody"
"it has been run by his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, named after Beach. Sylvia Beach Sylvia Beach (March 14, 1887 – October 5, 1962), born Nancy Woodbridge Beach, was an American-born bookseller and publisher who lived most of her life in Paris, where she was one of the leading expatriate figures between World War I and II. She is known for her Paris bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where she published James Joyce's controversial book, ""Ulysses"" (1922), and encouraged the publication and sold copies of Hemingway's first book, ""Three Stories and Ten Poems"" (1923). Beach was born in her father's parsonage"
"A Day at the Beach A Day at the Beach is a British 1970 film based on the 1962 book ""Een dagje naar het strand"" by Dutch author Heere Heeresma. The screenplay was written by Roman Polanski, who was originally intended to be the director, although most of the direction was finally done by first-timer Simon Hesera. Set in a rundown Danish seaside resort, it depicts a day in the life of Bernie, a self-destructive alcoholic, as he takes Winnie, a young girl with a leg brace, to the resort despite constant rain. Though Winnie calls Bernie ""uncle,"" he is"
"On Chesil Beach On Chesil Beach is a 2007 novel/novella by British writer Ian McEwan. The novel was selected for the 2007 Booker Prize shortlist. ""The Washington Post"" and Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Jonathan Yardley placed ""On Chesil Beach"" on his top ten for 2007, praising McEwan's writing and saying that ""even when he's in a minor mode, as he is here, he is nothing short of amazing"". In July 1962, Edward Mayhew, a graduate student of history, and Florence Ponting, a violinist of a string quartet, have just been married and are spending their honeymoon in a small hotel"
"The House on the Strand The House on the Strand is a novel by Daphne du Maurier. First published in the UK in 1969 by Victor Gollancz, with a jacket illustration by her daughter, Flavia Tower, the US edition was published by Doubleday. Like many of du Maurier's novels, ""The House on the Strand"" has a supernatural element, exploring the ability to mentally travel back in time and experience historical events at first hand - but not to influence them. It has been called a Gothic tale, ""influenced by writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Dante, and the psychologist"
"very much. They later became lovers and lived together for 36 years until Monnier’s suicide in 1955. Beach immediately became a member of Monnier’s lending library, and when in Paris she regularly attended the readings by authors such as André Gide, Paul Valéry and Jules Romains. Inspired by the literary life of the Left Bank and by Monnier’s efforts to promote innovative writing, Beach dreamed of starting a branch of Monnier’s book shop in New York that would offer contemporary French works to American readers. Since her only capital was US$3,000 which her mother gave her from her savings, Beach"
"The Beach of Falesá ""The Beach of Falesá"" is a short story by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in the ""Illustrated London News"" in 1892, and later published in book form in the short-story collection ""Island Nights' Entertainments"" (1893). It was written after Stevenson moved to the South Seas island of Samoa just a few years before he died there. The story is told in the first person by John Wiltshire, a British copra trader on the fictional South Sea island of Falesá. Upon arriving on the island, he meets a rival trader named Case, who"
"Beach Music (novel) Beach Music is Pat Conroy's novel of Jack McCall, a South Carolina native who flees the South with his daughter Leah after his wife commits suicide. This novel explores the Vietnam War-era, the Holocaust, and coming of age in the 20th century. It was published in 1995. Jack McCall, an American living in Rome with his daughter, is trying to find peace after the recent trauma of his wife's suicide, but his search for solitude is disturbed when a telegram from a family member summons Jack back to South Carolina to be with his ailing mother. He"
"Monkey Beach Monkey Beach is Eden Robinson's first novel, published by Vintage Canada in 2000. It was the recipient of the 2001 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, which is given to work by writers from British Columbia, and was a shortlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. The story of ""Monkey Beach"" is relayed through the eyes of Lisamarie Hill, a feisty young woman with supernatural abilities. Lisamarie's brother, Jimmy, has gone missing at sea under questionable circumstances. Lisamarie reflects on profound events in her life, as she waits on news of her"
"Beaches (film) Beaches (also known as Forever Friends) is a 1988 American comedy-drama film adapted by Mary Agnes Donoghue from the Iris Rainer Dart novel of the same name. It was directed by Garry Marshall, and stars Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, Mayim Bialik, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, and Lainie Kazan. Despite generally negative reviews from critics, the film was a commercial success, grossing $59 million in the box office, and gained a cult following. A sequel, based on the novel ""Beaches II: I'll Be There"" was planned with Barbara Eden but never filmed. The story of two friends"
"of a billionaire adventurer, who arrives in Old Orchard Beach under unusual circumstances one summer, with the stories of several townies. The book was named a 2012 Indie Sleeper Pick by ""Publishers Weekly"", and a Best Books of 2012 selection by the ""Maine Edge"". Pahigian is a Mentor in the Western Connecticut State University Low Residency Master of Fine Arts program in Creative and Professional Writing, and a Fellow in the University of New England Center for Global Humanities in Biddeford, Maine. Josh Pahigian Joshua R. Pahigian (born January 22, 1974) is an American author who specializes in books and"
"doctor. Nevil Shute's 1957 novel ""On the Beach"" depicts a future just six years later, based on the premise that a nuclear war has released so much radioactive fallout that all life in the Northern Hemisphere has been killed. The novel is set in Australia, which, along with the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, awaits a similar and inevitable fate. Helen Caldicott describes reading the novel in adolescence as 'a formative event' in her becoming part of the anti-nuclear movement. In the former Soviet Union many patients with negligible radioactive exposure after the Chernobyl disaster displayed extreme anxiety about low"