"Which novel begins with the line ""Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way""?"
"Anna Karenina principle The Anna Karenina principle states that a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms an endeavor to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one where every possible deficiency has been avoided. The name of the principle derives from Leo Tolstoy's book ""Anna Karenina"", which begins: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.In other words: in order to be happy, a family must be successful on ""each and every one"" of ""a"" ""range"" of criteria e.g.: sexual attraction, money issues, parenting, religion, in-laws. Failure"
"All Families Are Psychotic All Families Are Psychotic is the seventh novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2001. The novel is the fictional story of the dysfunctional Drummond family and their adventures on a trip to see their daughter's space shuttle launch. The novel is the tale of the Drummond family from Vancouver gathering together to watch Sarah Drummond's space shuttle blast off at the Kennedy Space Center. The Drummonds are a group of misfits with a wide array of personal foibles and intricacies. The novel's plot is the tale of events that reunite the Drummond family after many years"
"family life in changing times. Her no-muss, no-fuss storytelling, if unsurprising, is also frequently subtle, wry and moving."" The New York Times review included 'Some Luck' was ""...very skillfully conceived, an elegant solution to the historical novelist’s problem of how to raise the big barn that is the past without relying too much on power tools or hired help."" Some Luck Some Luck is a 2014 novel by Jane Smiley. It is the first in a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. It was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award. Beginning in 1920"
"prayed every day in the Moran household, and the event is a repeating motif throughout the novel. The novel opens with an elderly, weak, and depressed Michael Moran being taken care of by his daughters. Although they have busy lives and families of their own in Dublin and London, they have never really left the family home because they feel more important there. They have decided to recreate ""Monaghan Day,"" an event Moran always seemed to enjoy, hoping that this will somehow reverse his failing health. Monaghan Day was a market day, when Moran's friend McQuaid used to visit and"
"Orwell's Animal Farm by saying to her daughter, ""All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others."" The producers of the novela clearly come down on the progressive side of the class debate: with the exception of Daniel, every upper-class character is stereotyped as snobbish, greedy, insane, or all three. One of the Novela's primary villains, Veronica, continually evokes her membership in the upper-class as justification for her unsavory and occasionally violent actions. In contrast, the Fabiana's working-class family and neighbors are consistently portrayed sympathetically as hard-working people who want nothing more than happiness for everyone, regardless"
"all the odds"". Creech was the first American winner of the British award and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal (""Walk Two Moons"", 1994) and the British Carnegie. The story starts in the Boxton Creek Home, an 'orphanage' run by a strict couple, the Trepids. A thirteen-year-old boy named Dallas, who is an imaginative young teenager, and his twin sister Florida, a sassy and bold girl, have been living for a long time in the Home, and they have been punished many times for breaking of the rules that the Trepids post all over the House."
"or 2007. The project remains in development. Writer Mark Poirier has been commissioned to adapt the screenplay from Coupland's novel. All Families Are Psychotic All Families Are Psychotic is the seventh novel by Douglas Coupland, published in 2001. The novel is the fictional story of the dysfunctional Drummond family and their adventures on a trip to see their daughter's space shuttle launch. The novel is the tale of the Drummond family from Vancouver gathering together to watch Sarah Drummond's space shuttle blast off at the Kennedy Space Center. The Drummonds are a group of misfits with a wide array of"
"to ""The House of the Eye"" (), and the Japanese version 最悪のはじまり translates to ""The Worst Beginning"" (Soshisha, 2001: ). The Bad Beginning The Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series ""A Series of Unfortunate Events"" by Lemony Snicket. The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance. The book was published on September 30, 1999, by Scholastic Inc. and illustrated by Brett Helquist. An audiobook was released in 2003, several special"
"miscommunication and mayhem in a family like no other."" ""Hello from the Gillespies"" was included on Oprah Winfrey's ""Three Books to Take on a Flight"" list, as well as Booktopia's 2014 Books of the Year and Australia's Favourite Author polls, and the Huffington Post's 2015 Top 10 Novels to Read this Winter list. In her 2017 novel, ""The Trip of a Lifetime"", McInerney reacquaints readers with the Quinlan family, previously featured in ""The Alphabet Sisters"" and ""Lola's Secret"". This time, the family's wilful and eccentric matriarch, Lola, takes her granddaughter and great-granddaughter to visit her Irish homeland. But as the"
"May's description of galactic mental Unity. The series title echoes Teilhard's 1957 book ""Le Milieu Divin"". The Remillard family are Catholic, and on several occasions family members discuss their faith. The most notable example occurs in the first part of Chapter 24 of ""Jack the Bodiless"", where Teresa Kendall explains Christianity to her unborn son. ""Jack the Bodiless"" begins with a set of quotations, including the Spanish proverb ""God writes straight with crooked lines."" This proverb summarises the plot of the whole series, in which tragedies and disasters (particularly the Metapsychic Rebellion) result in ultimate good (particularly the repentance and"
"book, it occurs in the household of Patrick Henry. Throughout the novel, there are many conflicts. In the beginning of the novel, the main conflict is the fact that their mother goes crazy and becomes unable to care for the family. This leaves a gap in the family, especially with their father gone the majority of the time. Patsy and her siblings are forced to cope with life without their mother, many at a very young age. This conflict starts out the whole novel. The other conflicts that follow include Patsy's harsh reign and how their siblings have to live"
"to be given everything in life without having to work for it, and most of all he greatly resents his stepmother Rose. He still feels that she is an unwelcome presence in the house, supplanting his mother and causing nothing but trouble with her uninhibited tongue. ""…a leading example of India’s emergent writers, blending the Hindu with the Christian outlook, possessed equally of a cool analytical brain and broadly human sympathies."" – ""The Times"" At its first release in 1985, ""Rich Like Us"" received wide critical acclaim. The latter publication dates in 1999 and 2003 followed suit, with high praise"
"drugs. There have been no dramatic disasters, but overpopulation has made housing and other resources scarce; the response is a program of compulsory birth control and eugenics. A welfare state provides for basic needs through an all-encompassing agency called MODICUM, but there is an extreme class division between welfare recipients and professionals. The novel consists of five independent novellas (previously published separately) with a common setting but different characters, and a longer sub-novel called ""334"" whose many short sections trace the members of a single family forward and backward in time. The sections are as follows: ""334"" was selected by"
"and forth from when John was about 9 until when he graduates with a degree as a drama teacher. John Godber has described it as ""humour with a touch of sadness"". It takes its name from the card game of the same name - Happy Families. Happy Families (play) Happy Families is a play written by John Godber in 1991. It is an autobiographical play set in Northern England and tells the story of a boy called John and his parents Vic and Dot. It tells of the stresses and strains of growing up with his family. It tells of"
"""The Bad Beginning"" were featured in the 2004 film adaptation of the first three books in the series, ""Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events"". Most foreign editions have borne titles which are direct translations of the phrase ""the bad beginning"", including: However, the Indonesian version, ""Mula Malapetaka"", translates to ""The First Catastrophe"" (); the French ""Tout commence mal…"", ""All Begins Badly"", translated by Rose-Marie Vassallo (Éditions Nathan, 2002: ); and the Quebec French ""Nés sous une mauvaise étoile"", ""Born Under a Bad Star"", apparently also translated by Rose-Marie Vassallo (Éditions Heritage, 2007: ), the Korean version ""눈동자의 집"" translates"
"The Whole Family The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) is a collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author. This unusual project was conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carried out under the direction of ""Harper's Bazaar"" editor Elizabeth Jordan, who (like Howells) would write one of the chapters herself. Howells' idea for the novel was to show how an engagement or marriage would affect and be affected by an entire family. The project became somewhat curious for the way the authors' contentious interrelationships mirrored the sometimes dysfunctional family they described in their"
"however, and each can be read as an independent story. There are similarities and differences in the experiences of the Whiteoak family and that of de la Roche. While the lives and successes of the Whiteoaks rise and fall, there remained for them the steadiness of the family manor, known as Jalna. De la Roche's family endured the illness of her mother, the perpetual job searches of her father, and the adoption of her orphaned cousin while being moved 17 times. Several critics believe that Finch Whiteoak who majors in ""Finch's Fortune"" (1932) is a reflection of de la Roche"
"must deal with “Ms. Tyler's oddball families, which any self-respecting therapist would call ‘dysfunctional’... An inexplicable centripetal force hurls these relatives upon one another, catches them in a dizzying inward spiral of obligation, affection and old-fashioned guilt—as well as an inexpressible longing for some perfect or ""normal"" family in a distant past that never really was. Almost every novel by Anne Tyler begins with a loss or absence that reactivates in the family some primordial sense of itself.” Larry McMurtry wrote, ""...in book after book, siblings are drawn inexorably back home, as if their parents or (more often) grandparents had"
"the main series. All four novels were collected into one volume ""Happily Ever After"", including bonus content and epilogues. Cass stated that she began writing ""The Selection"" after thinking about the differences between Esther and Cinderella, wondering if either of them were happy with how they ended up. She also commented that she had written the book ""from start to finish"", while her writing process for the other books differed. In a dystopian fairy-tale world where society is divided into castes, with Ones as the most prosperous, consisting of royals and elites, and Eights who are mostly orphans, drug users,"
"about the curious friendship between Howie Jeffries, a shy, 50-year-old recluse and Emily Phane, an irreverent young woman who suffers from horrific sleep paralysis attacks. It takes place in Queens Falls, the same fictional upstate New York town Wodicka wrote about in ""All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well"". The novel was awarded a Kirkus Star and was critically acclaimed in ""The New Yorker"", ""The Financial Times"", ""Esquire Magazine"", ""The Sunday Times"", ""Artforum"", ""Tank Magazine"" and ""The Independent"". Tod Wodicka's essays, criticism and fiction has appeared in ""The Guardian"", ""Granta"","
"The Bad Beginning The Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series ""A Series of Unfortunate Events"" by Lemony Snicket. The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance. The book was published on September 30, 1999, by Scholastic Inc. and illustrated by Brett Helquist. An audiobook was released in 2003, several special editions of the book have been made and the book has been translated into many different languages. Violet Baudelaire is"
"social ladder as their eldest sons, Koizumi Minoru and Hashimoyo Tatsuo, take on disastrous financial projects. The character Sankichi is the youngest son of the Koizumi family, a writer – a thinly disguised ""alter ego"" for the author himself. The Family (Shimazaki novel) The Family is a Japanese novel written by Tōson Shimazaki, first serialized in 1910–11 under the title ""Ie"" (家). This autobiographical novel deals with the disintegration of two provincial families, the Koizumis and the Hashimotos. ""The Family"" covers a period of twelve years in the lives of the Koizumi and the Hashimoto families, from 1898 to 1910."
"birthplace. There is a carnivalesque element to London as a city that is constantly changing. The pairing of opposites is shown in sets of twins and in the family names ""Chance"" and ""Hazard"" (two words with the same meaning, perhaps emphasising the superficial nature of the differences between them). Illegitimacy versus legitimacy: Nora and Dora are from ""the wrong side of the tracks"" and were ""born out of wedlock"", their father is ""a pillar of the legit theatre"" and throughout the book the twins are constantly trying to become legitimate and be accepted. However, Carter questions the concept of legitimacy,"
"The Happy Hollisters The Happy Hollisters is a series of books about a family who loves to solve mysteries. The series was published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and entirely written by Andrew E. Svenson (1910–1975) under the pseudonym Jerry West. Helen S. Hamilton (1921–2014) illustrated the books. This series recounts the adventures of a young American middle-class family solving mysteries from their home on Pine Lake in the city of Shoreham (no state is ever provided). The Hollister family includes five children, their parents, a family of cats, a dog and a burro. Pete is the oldest of the Hollister"
"twentieth century up until the early years of the Obama administration. The novel ""chronicles the struggling marriage of Walter and Patty, a Mid-Western, middle-class couple, interlaced with painfully accurate observations on the travails of family life – incompatible siblings, unruly offspring, inadequate parents and, in its bleakest moments, the slow collective march towards death."" ""Freedom"" opens with a short history of the Berglund family during their time living in St. Paul, Minnesota, from the perspective of their nosy neighbors. The Berglunds are portrayed as an ideal liberal and middle-class family, and they are among the first families to move into"
"list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ""TIME"" magazine included the novel in its ""TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005"". The novel centers on a wealthy family living in New Rochelle, New York, named Father, Mother, Mother's Younger Brother, Grandfather, and 'the little boy', Father and Mother's young son. The narrator is never identified. The family business is the manufacturer of flags and fireworks, an easy source of wealth due to the national enthusiasm for patriotic displays. Father joins Robert Peary's expedition to the North Pole, and his return sees a change in"
"siblings fighting over the trust fund they're all counting on to bail them out of their particular disappointments and self-inflicted disasters."" ""The Washington Post"" slated the book as ""a comedy of filial greed and affection."" ""The New York Times"" reported ""Ms. Sweeney writes like a pro when it comes to moving her chess pieces around a crowded board."" The four siblings of the Plumb family are set to come into their long-awaited inheritance when the youngest turns 40, but one sibling's reckless actions damage the ""nest"". The Nest (2016 novel) The Nest is the bestselling debut novel by Cynthia D'Aprix"
"Like One of the Family Like One of the Family is a novel by Alice Childress. It was originally published in 1956 by Independence Publishers in Brooklyn, New York. It was re-published by Beacon Press in Boston in 1986. Each chapter, 62 in all, is told from the perspective of Mildred, a domestic worker in New York City, to her friend Marge, also a domestic worker. The chapters originally appeared with the title ""Conversation from Life"" in the black Marxist newspaper ""Freedom"" (founded by Paul Robeson), and later were published in the ""Baltimore Afro-American"". Literary scholar Trudier Harris notes that,"
"from Clapham, London; his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ""Hilly"" A Bardwell, was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant. He has an older brother, Philip; his younger sister, Sally, died in 2000. His parents married in 1948 in Oxford and divorced when he was twelve. He attended a number of schools in the 1950s and 1960s—including the Bishop Gore School (Swansea Grammar School), and Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, where he was described by one headmaster as ""unusually unpromising"". The acclaim that followed his father's first novel ""Lucky Jim"" sent the family to Princeton, New Jersey, where"
"line to the works of Charles Dickens in England, particularly his 1838 work ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (which featured a similar storyline), and the 1844 novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", which also featured criticisms of class society in the United States. The story centres on the wealthy and prosperous Harley family, consisting of: Frank (the father), Gazella (the mother), and their nine children. After a series of bad investments results in bankruptcy, the Harleys are forced into destitution, which in turn leads to Frank's untimely death from excessive drinking. Gazella continues life as a seamstress in order to provide for her children, two of"
"to five roses at the start of each Book. At the end of the novel all five families' devices are combined in a larger design, a quincunx of quincunxes. The pattern of narration of the 125 chapters - John Huffam, an omniscient narrator and a third person - exactly matches the colour pattern - white, black and red - of the 125 elements of the design. The mixture of first-person and detached narration is similar to the alternation between Esther Summerson's story and a neutral point of view in ""Bleak House"". Palliser also notes that the heart of the book"
"expectant mother. Mickey, the youngest, is a medical student has an unorthodox plan for her future that will upset her family. The novel also concerns the sisters' parents who, despite their bitter divorce, have begun dating each other again. The novel follows the relationship and career difficulties of each of the three sisters, and their ultimate reconciliation as a family. Kate Bennett has played by the rules her whole life, but has been troubled by extraordinary bad luck. Orphaned while in college, Kate handled her loss by graduating with honors and acquiring a secure job and a dependable boyfriend. But"
"the most light-hearted of the seven published books, disrupts the childhood reassurances that Byatt claims spur the series' success: the book opens with news of a double murder, for example. Stephen King called the series ""a feat of which only a superior imagination is capable"", and declared ""Rowling's punning, one-eyebrow-cocked sense of humor"" to be ""remarkable"". However, he wrote that despite the story being ""a good one"", he is ""a little tired of discovering Harry at home with his horrible aunt and uncle"", the formulaic beginning of all seven books. King has also joked that ""Rowling's never met an adverb"