"Moon Tiger Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II. The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize. It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time. It begins as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and develops into a story of love, incest and the desire to be recognized as an independent free thinking woman of the time. Claudia Hampton, a 76-year-old English woman and a professional historian, is terminally ill"
"Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel, 1965 The Last Flapper by William Luce, 1987 Heaven’s Hard by Jordan Budde, 1989 Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit, 1990 Act of Passion by John Tyson, 1990 Jekyll & Hyde, music by Frank Wildhorn, book and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, 1990 The Czar of Rock & Roll, music and lyrics by Rusty Magee, book by Lewis Black, 1990 Svengali, music by Frank Wildhorn, book by Gregory Boyd, lyrics by John Bettis, Gregory Boyd, and Frank Wildhorn, 1991 The Kiddie Pool by Michael Wilson, 1992 American Vaudeville by Tina Landau"
"Hunter's Moon (novel) Hunter's Moon, known as The Foxes of Firstdark in the United States, is a novel by English fantasy author Garry Kilworth, published in 1989. It concerns the lives of a group of foxes, who are anthropomorphised to some extent, but are not shown as performing any action physically impossible for the species. The protagonist of the story of O-Ha, a beautiful yet proud vixen fox who keeps to traditional and conservative country ways. The story is rich in mythology and the author creates stories about the fox and animal cultures. The foxes perform prayers before eating, after"
"Owl Moon Owl Moon is a 1987 children's picture book by Jane Yolen, illustrated by John Schoenherr. It won many awards, most notably being the Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, and has appeared on ""Reading Rainbow"". It has been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages, including French, German, Chinese, and Korean. Yolen described the book as, ""a positive family story. It's about a girl and her father. Usually stories of a little girl are with her mother. It is gentle yet adventurous, quiet yet full of sound"". The story deals with a father that takes his daughter owling"
"the sensual images of the text, coupled with the artist's direct, yet subtly disjointed pictures in vivid watery colors, combine for a harmonious nighttime symphony of sound and color."" ""Half a Moon"" received the 1987 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award. Half a Moon and One Whole Star Half a Moon and One Whole Star is a 1986 book by Crescent Dragonwagon and illustrator Jerry Pinkney about a girl, Susan, who falls asleep in her bed, while the world continues outside. ""Publishers Weekly"" in a review of ""Half a Moon and One Whole Star"", wrote "" Half A Moon and One"
"2007, the National Education Association named ""Goodnight Moon"" one of its ""Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children"". In 2012 it was ranked number four among the ""Top 100 Picture Books"" in a survey published by ""School Library Journal"". Hurd also illustrated over fifty books written by his wife Edith Thacher Hurd (a friend of Brown's) as well as a children's book written by Gertrude Stein, ""The World Is Round"". Hurd wrote and illustrated the book ""Run, Run, Run"". Hurd died of Alzheimer's disease at a San Francisco hospital in 1988. His son Thacher Hurd is also a children's book author"
"the Moon"" was a finalist for the 1992 Stonewall Book Award. Stephen Dubner, writing for ""New York Magazine"", describes the novel as ""a sprawling tragicomedy set in a gold-rush town called Excellent, Idaho. Shed, who is definitely bisexual and most likely mixed race, shares time, beds, and whiskey bottles with a pair of loving, flamboyant prostitutes and a soulful rancher who might be his father. The book is equal parts bizarre Bildungsroman, raucous picaresque, and hard-driving wild-West yarn."" In keeping with the thread of autobiography that runs through his novels ""by the time his first novel was published... in 1988,"
"and starred Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, and Aidan Quinn; it won the 1995 Academy Award for cinematography. Jim Harrison had a writing credit for the film. Other films he scripted or co-wrote include ""Cold Feet"" (1989), with Keith Carradine, Tom Waits, and Rip Torn and ""Revenge"" (1990), starring Kevin Costner. For his work on the screenplay for ""Wolf"" (1994, starring Jack Nicholson) Harrison, along with co-writer Wesley Strick, shared the Saturn Award for Best Writing. NOTE: Jim Harrison James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American writer known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the"
"Prize. Notable for its portrayal of Gilmore and the anguish surrounding the murders he committed, the book expressed Mailer's thinking about the national debate over the revival of capital punishment. Another writer to blend fact with fiction was Colombian writer Rafael Chaparro Madiedo, who featured Gilmore as one of the main characters of his 1992 novel ""Opio en las Nubes,"" which won the National Prize. In 1982, ""The Executioner's Song"" was adapted by Mailer for a television movie of the same name starring Tommy Lee Jones as Gilmore, and co-starring Christine Lahti, Eli Wallach, and Rosanna Arquette. Jones won an"
"Warrior: Memoir of a Childhood among Ghosts. In the 1980s, David Henry Hwang won the Obie award for his play, ""FOB"", as well as a Tony Award for Best Play for his ""M. Butterfly"". Bette Bao Lord's ""Spring Moon"" (1981) became an international bestseller and an American Book Award nominee. Amy Tan's ""The Joy Luck Club"" was published to immediate popularity and wide, though not universal, acclaim. The book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for over forty weeks, and won the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Commonwealth Gold Award. ""The Joy"
"Elizabeth Moon Elizabeth Moon (born March 7, 1945) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel ""The Speed of Dark"" won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps. Moon was born Susan Elizabeth Norris and grew up in McAllen, Texas. She started writing when she was a child and first tried a book, which was about her dog, at age six. She was inspired to write creatively, and says that she began writing science fiction in her teens, considering"
"Wolf Moon (novel) Wolf Moon is a 1988 fantasy novel by Charles de Lint. The ""wolf moon"" is the first moon of winter, when the climax of the story takes place. Kern, a werewolf, is hunted by a harper who uses magic; escaping, but injured, he finds himself at an inn called the Yellow Tinker. Long ago, he had once tried to find acceptance as a man and a werewolf, and was nearly killed for revealing what he truly is. Kern comes to love the woman who is the innkeeper, and decides to stay, and never reveal his animal nature."
"1986 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 21st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1987, honored the best filmmaking of 1986. 1. Blue Velvet<br> 2. ""Hannah and Her Sisters""<br> 3. ""Platoon"" 1. David Lynch – ""Blue Velvet""<br> 2. Andrei Tarkovsky – ""The Sacrifice"" (""Offret"")<br> 3. Oliver Stone – ""Platoon"" and ""Salvador"" 1. Bob Hoskins – ""Mona Lisa""<br> 2. Jeff Goldblum – ""The Fly""<br> 3. Paul Newman – ""The Color of Money"" 1. Chloe Webb – ""Sid and Nancy""<br> 2. Sandrine Bonnaire – ""Vagabond"" (""Sans toit ni loi"")<br> 2. Kathleen Turner – ""Peggy Sue Got Married"""
"Grace Moon Grace Moon (1884–1947) was an American children's author, publishing many works on Native American themes. Her most notable work was ""Runaway Papoose"", which won a Newbery Honor in 1929. She was born Grace Purdie in Indianapolis. Moon received her education from the University of Wisconsin, National Academy of Design, New York and the Art Institute of Chicago. She spent several years in Europe and explored Aztec ruins in Mexico with her father. Her ""bringing out"" party was at the American Legation in Buenos Aires. In 1911 she married Carl Moon, a painter and photographer of the American Indian."
"the Claremont Elizabeth Taylor 78. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré 79. Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 80. The Bottle Factory Outing Beryl Bainbridge 81. The Executioner's Song Norman Mailer 82. If On a Winter's Night a Traveller Italo Calvino 83. A Bend in the River VS Naipaul 84. Waiting for the Barbarians JM Coetzee 85. Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 86. Lanark Alasdair Gray 87. The New York Trilogy Paul Auster 88. The BFG Roald Dahl 89. The Periodic Table Primo Levi 90. Money Martin Amis 91. An Artist of the Floating World Kazuo Ishiguro 92. Oscar And Lucinda Peter"
"Swan Song (McCammon novel) Swan Song is a 1987 horror novel by American novelist Robert R. McCammon. It is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction describing the aftermath of a nuclear war that provokes an evolution in humankind. ""Swan Song "" won the 1987 Bram Stoker award (tied with ""Misery""). The President of the United States and his advisors are discussing how the Soviet Union is building up its forces for a nuclear strike. The relationship between the Soviet and American governments has deteriorated badly. Soviet and American ships play cat and mouse in the Atlantic Ocean. With Soviet submarines closing"
"""American Review"". Hoffman's first job was at Doubleday, which later published two of her novels. She was the recipient of a New Jersey Notable Book Award. She won a Hammett Prize for ""Turtle Moon"". She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film ""Independence Day"", starring Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest. She resides in Boston. After being treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, she helped establish the hospital's Hoffman Breast Center. Hoffman is Jewish although her characters are generally not. Alice Hoffman Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer,"
"example of someone who loved writing and found doing it both good and important, probably influenced me more deeply than any other."" ""Rain of Fire"" (1983) won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1984. Bauer received the Kerlan Award in 1986. ""On My Honor"" (1986) won a Newbery Medal Honor in 1987, and won the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 1989. ""Am I Blue"", an anthology of children's fiction about gay and lesbian issues, won a Lambda Literary Award in 1994, and the Stonewall Book Award for literature in 1995. ""The Longest Night"" won a Golden Kite"
"Third Kind"" – Joe Alves 1979: ""Alien"" – Michael Seymour 1980: ""The Elephant Man"" – Stuart Craig 1981: ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" – Norman Reynolds 1982: ""Blade Runner"" – Lawrence G. Paull 1983: ""La Traviata"" – Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli 1985: ""Brazil"" – Norman Garwood 1986: ""A Room with a View"" – Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta 1987: ""Radio Days"" – Santo Loquasto 1988: """" – Dean Tavoularis 1989: ""The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"" – Dante Ferretti 1990: ""Dick Tracy"" – Richard Sylbert 1991: ""Edward Scissorhands"" – Bo Welch 1992: ""Strictly Ballroom"" – Catherine Martin 1993: ""The Piano"""
"Vern Sneider Vernon J. Sneider (6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical ""Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen"" in 1970. The play ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954. His novel ""A Pail of Oysters"", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor Press on February 28, 2016,"
"Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award The Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award was created in 1989 by Ted Turner, to be awarded to an unpublished work of fiction offering creative and positive solutions to global problems. ""Ishmael"" by Daniel Quinn won the award in 1991, which will not be awarded again, and was selected out of 2500 entries by a celebrity panel including famous sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury. The award was worth $500,000, the largest single sum ever awarded to a single work of literature. Turner created the prize in hopes of combining literary merit with potential solutions to near-term environmental concerns. While"
"1988: Pete Dexter — ""Paris Trout"" 1989: John Casey — ""Spartina"" 1990: Charles Johnson — ""Middle Passage"" 1991: Norman Rush — ""Mating"" 1992: Cormac McCarthy — ""All the Pretty Horses"" 1993: E. Annie Proulx — ""The Shipping News"" 1994: William Gaddis — ""A Frolic of His Own"" 1995: Philip Roth — ""Sabbath's Theater"" 1996: Andrea Barrett — ""Ship Fever and Other Stories"" 1997: Charles Frazier — ""Cold Mountain"" 1998: Alice McDermott — ""Charming Billy"" 1999: Ha Jin — ""Waiting"" 2000: Susan Sontag — ""In America"" 2001: Jonathan Franzen — ""The Corrections"" 2002: Julia Glass — ""Three Junes"" 2003: Shirley Hazzard"
"Bitter Moon Bitter Moon is a 1992 Franco-British-American erotic romantic thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Peter Coyote. The film is known in France as ' (a pun on the French phrase ""lune de miel"", meaning ""honeymoon"", in Italian it is known as '). The script is inspired by the novel ""Lunes de fiel"", written by the French author Pascal Bruckner. The score was composed by Vangelis. British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona Dobson (Kristin Scott Thomas) are on a Mediterranean cruise ship to Istanbul en route to India."
"Gorm Henrik Rasmussen Gorm Henrik Rasmussen (born 1955) is a Danish poet who wrote the first biography about the guitarist and singer-songwriter Nick Drake, ""Pink Moon"" (1986). The book is based upon interviews Gorm Henrik Rasmussen made with Nick Drake's parents, Rodney and Molly Drake, in their home in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire, England, in 1979 and 1980. ""Pink Moon"" was re-written and translated into English in 2009. In 2012, it became the launch title for Rocket 88, a new music book imprint of Essential Works. A Spanish version has also appeared in 2012. Gorm Henrik Rasmussen is known in Denmark for"
"Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962) 82. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962) 83. A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964) 84. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966) 85. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1966) 86. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth (1969) 87. Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor (1971) 88. Rabbit Redux by John Updike (1971) 89. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977) 90. A Bend in the River by VS Naipaul (1979) 91. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981) 92. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1981) 93. Money: A Suicide Note by Martin"
"sell-out success in the US. New Musical Express' Andy Gill gave a positive review of the book, noting the clear affection that Butler had for Moon. The book was republished in the early 2000s by Faber and Faber. Dougal Butler Peter ""Dougal"" Butler is a British author and retired roadie. He is best known for being Keith Moon's personal assistant during the 1970s, and for publishing several books about Moon's life, ""Full Moon"" and ""Keith Moon – A Personal Portrait"". Butler grew up in London at the same time as The Who became successful. He left school at 15 and"
"Owl Goingback Owl Goingback (born 1959) is an American author of horror and children's books, a fiction ghostwriter, and a writer of non-fiction. Having served as a jet engine mechanic in the Air Force, and the former owner of a restaurant and lounge, Owl Goingback became a full-time writer in 1987. He has written numerous novels, children's books, short stories, and magazine articles. He has also ghostwritten novels for celebrities. His novel ""Crota"" won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and was one of four finalists in the Best Novel category. Owl's novel ""Shaman Moon"" was published"
"Award for Best Novel, and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988. The Urth of the New Sun The Urth of the New Sun is a 1987 science fiction novel by Gene Wolfe that serves as a coda to his four-volume ""Book of the New Sun"" series. Like ""Book"", it is of the dying earth subgenre. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1988. ""Urth of the New Sun"" picks up the tale of Severian, the protagonist of ""Book of the"
"Pyramid Books. Tongues of the Moon Tongues of the Moon is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip José Farmer. Originally released in 1964, the book is an action story, focusing on fighting and combat scenes rather than a complex plot. It was initially printed as a novella in ""Amazing Stories"". In ""Tongues of the Moon"", colonists on Earth's Moon engage in a small-scale war after a nuclear holocaust on Earth. The warring parties include the Soviet Union, here allied with the United States, and a military faction called the ""South Atlantic Axis"". The novel was reprinted several times,"
"be reached by mail at:<br> Vern Sneider Vernon J. Sneider (6 October 1916 – 1 May 1981) was an American novelist perhaps most noted for his 1951 novel ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"", which was later adapted by John Patrick for a Broadway play in 1953, a motion picture in 1956, and the Broadway musical ""Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen"" in 1970. The play ""The Teahouse of the August Moon"" won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1954. His novel ""A Pail of Oysters"", about life during the White Terror by Chinese Nationalists regime in Taiwan, was reissued by Camphor"
"Dragon Moon Dragon Moon is a children's fantasy novel by Carole Wilkinson, first published in 2007. It is the third book of the Dragonkeeper series. The books before it are ""Dragonkeeper"" and ""Garden of the Purple Dragon"". It is followed by ""Blood Brothers"", ""Shadow Sisters"" and ""Bronze Bird Tower"" The trilogy, based in ancient China, during the Han Dynasty, has won many awards. ""Dragon Moon"" continues the story of the Dragonkeeper Ping, as she tries to fulfill her first dragon's wishes to care for his son, Kai, and take him to the Dragon Haven, where he can be raised by"
"Killer's Moon Killer's Moon is a 1978 British horror film written and directed by Alan Birkinshaw, with uncredited dialogue written by his novelist sister, Fay Weldon. A coach full of schoolgirls breaks down in the Lake District, forcing the girls to take shelter for the night in a remote hotel. Meanwhile, strange and macabre things are happening to the locals (and their pets) and it is revealed that four escaped mental patients- Mr. Smith, Mr. Trubshaw, Mr. Muldoon and Mr. Jones - who have been dosed with LSD as part of their treatment, are roaming the area, convinced they are"
"the film bears a resemblance to the illustrations in the book. However, the novel ""The Dragon and the George"" by Gordon R. Dickson was the inspiration for the film's plot. One of the main characters is Peter Dickinson, the book's author himself struggling to complete his text. Peter Dickinson Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL (16 December 1927 – 16 December 2015) was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Dickinson won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for both ""Tulku"" (1979) and ""City of Gold"" (1980), each being recognised as"