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Bloodbrothers (Price Novel)
''Bloodbrothers'' is a novel by Richard Price, published in 1976. It recounts the story of an eighteen-year-old boy growing up in a working-class environment. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1978. Critical reception ''New York'' wrote that "Price intensifies the themes of ''The Wanderers''—the end of adolescent freedom, the cruelty of parents who despise what they’ve become and take it out on their kids, the paralyzing fear that comes with choosing a future among meager options." ''Kirkus Reviews ''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, no ...'' wrote that "although the characters draw their only life from the frenetic, stabbing speechways echoing down Price's mean streets, this does not diminish the validity or impact of men on the march to nowhere." Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Price (writer)
Richard Price (born on October 12, 1949) is an American novelist and screenwriter, known for the books ''The Wanderers (Price novel), The Wanderers'' (1974), ''Clockers (novel), Clockers'' (1992) and ''Lush Life (novel), Lush Life'' (2008). Price's novels explore late-20th-century urban America in a gritty, realistic manner that has brought him considerable literary acclaim. Several of his novels are set in a fictional northern New Jersey city called Dempsy. Price has also written screenplays for television dramas such as ''The Wire'', ''The Outsider (miniseries), The Outsider'', ''The Night Of,'' and ''The Deuce (TV series), The Deuce''. For writing ''The Color of Money'' (1986), a feature film directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the The Color of Money (novel), 1984 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, Price received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Early life and education Price was born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Harriet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houghton Mifflin
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The Wanderers (Richard Price Novel)
''The Wanderers'' is a novel by the American author Richard Price (writer), Richard Price. It was first published as a book in 1974. The plot is set in the Bronx, New York City, from mid-1962 to mid-1963. Writing and publication Price was 24 years old when ''The Wanderers'', was published. It was his first novel, and the setting of the story is a housing project in the Bronx, New York, which is similar to that in which Price grew up. The book contains 12 chapters, which are loosely connected with each other, mainly by reappearing characters. It is more like a collection of short stories—each chapter can stand on its own. A conventional encompassing plot is missing. However, there is a thread: the protagonists are forced to mature, each one in his own way, toward the end of the book. Parts of the book were published as the story "Big Playground" in Antaeus, New York City, in 1972. Regarding the year(s) in which the story takes place there is an inconsistency. In the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladies' Man (novel)
''Ladies' Man'' is the third novel by Richard Price published in 1978. It was adapted into a 1989 film '' Sea of Love''. Overview Kenny Becker, a young door-to-door salesman, goes on the prowl for love in 1970s New York City. Critical reception ''Kirkus Reviews'' wrote that "what keeps this book afloat long past its torpedoing point is Price's Lenny Bruce-ish, shpritz-style riffery." ''New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...'' called ''Ladies' Man'' "more of a cult book, as it lacks the emotional range and complexity of rice'sfirst two novels." References 1978 American novels American novels adapted into films Novels by Richard Price (writer) Novels set in New York City Houghton Mifflin books {{1970s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloodbrothers (1978 Film)
''Bloodbrothers'' is a 1978 coming-of-age film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Richard Gere, Paul Sorvino, Tony Lo Bianco and Marilu Henner. It was based on the 1976 novel by Richard Price. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Plot The film narrates the coming-of-age story of a teenager hailing from an Italian-American working-class family, specifically a household of construction workers in the Bronx. Tommy De Coco and his brother Louis, affectionately known as Chubby due to his robust build, toil as laborers on construction sites, embodying the life and family values prevalent among immigrant Italians in the working-class milieu of the Bronx. This includes the macho posturing of men, the traditional role of the wife in the kitchen, the marriage to a virtuous girl, and the premarital exploration among vivacious, pleasure-seeking women. Numerous issues remain unaddressed, and the family grapples with finding solutions to certain behaviors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (magazine)
''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' and ''The New York Times Magazine'', it was brasher in voice and more connected to contemporary city life and commerce, and became a cradle of New Journalism. Over time, it became more national in scope, publishing many noteworthy articles about American culture by writers such as Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Pete Hamill, Jacob Weisberg, Michael Wolff (journalist), Michael Wolff, John Heilemann, Frank Rich, and Rebecca Traister. It was among the first "lifestyle magazines" meant to appeal to both male and female audiences, and its format and style have been emulated by many American regional and city publications. ''New York'' in its earliest days focused almost entirely on coverage of its namesake city, but beginning in the 1970s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirkus Reviews
''Kirkus Reviews'' is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media, is headquartered in New York City. ''Kirkus Reviews'' confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature. ''Kirkus Reviews'', published on the first and 15th of each month, previews books before their publication. ''Kirkus'' reviews over 10,000 titles per year. History Virginia Kirkus was hired by Harper & Brothers to establish a children's book department in 1926. In 1932, the department was eliminated as an economic measure. However, within a year, Louise Raymond, the secretary Kirkus hired, had the department running again. Kirkus, however, had left and soon established her own book review service. Initially, she arranged to get galley proofs of "20 or so" books in advance of their publication; almost 80 years later, the service was receiving hundreds of books weekly and reviewing about 100. Ini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 American Novels
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American Novels Adapted Into Films
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Novels By Richard Price (writer)
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
