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List Of Works Set Within One Day
Full-length media whose entire plot takes place during one day. Novels *''1982, Janine'' *''253 (novel), 253'' *''The 25th Hour'' *''A Girl in Winter'' *''A Single Man (novel), A Single Man'' *''The Act of Roger Murgatroyd'' *''After Dark (Murakami novel), After Dark'' *''Alastalon salissa'' *''The Almost Moon'' *''Angels & Demons'' *''April Morning'' *''Arlington Park (novel), Arlington Park'' *''The Art of the Engine Driver'' *''Between the Acts'' *''Billiards at Half-past Nine'' *''The Birthday Party (novel), The Birthday Party'' *''Breathing Lessons'' *''The British Museum Is Falling Down'' *''Bunny Lake Is Missing (novel), Bunny Lake Is Missing'' *''By Night in Chile'' *''The Cambridge Quintet'' *''Concluding'' *''Cosmopolis (novel), Cosmopolis'' *''Cosmétique de l'ennemi'' *''The Da Vinci Code'' *''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'' *''Death of a River Guide'' *''The Dinner (novel), The Dinner'' *''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' *''Eleven (novel), Eleven'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982, Janine
''1982, Janine'' is a novel by the Scottish author Alasdair Gray. His second, it was published in 1984, and remains his most controversial work. Its use of pornography as a narrative device attracted much criticism, although others, including Gray himself, consider it his best work. Plot summary The novel is narrated by Jock McLeish, a supervisor of the installation of alarm systems. Divorced, alcoholic and approaching fifty, his problems coalesce in a long night of the soul in a hotel room in Peebles or Selkirk. McLeish attempts to spend the night assembling an intricate pornographic fantasy. His cast of characters includes: Janine, based on a childhood memory of Jane Russell in ''The Outlaw''; Superb (short for Superbitch); and Big Momma, an obese lesbian. All of these are submitted to sadomasochistic practices, parts of which are described at some length. However, McLeish constantly returns to reminiscences of his previous life and lovers. These prompt his attem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The British Museum Is Falling Down
''The British Museum is Falling Down'' (1965) is a comic novel by British author David Lodge about a 25-year-old poverty-stricken student of English literature who, rather than work on his thesis (entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels") in the reading room of the British Museum, is distracted time and again from his work and who gets into trouble instead. Summary Set in Swinging London, the novel describes one day in the life of Adam Appleby, who lives in constant fear that his wife might be pregnant again with a fourth child in a small flat in Battersea. As Catholics, they are denied any form of contraception and have to play " Vatican roulette" instead. Adam and Barbara have three children: Clare, Dominic, and Edward; their friends ask if they "intend working through the whole alphabet". In the course of only one busy day several chances to make some money present themselves to Adam. For example, he is offered the opportunity to edit a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleven Hours
''Eleven Hours'' (1998) is a Thriller novel 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 ... by author Paullina Simons. Plot summary On the eve of giving birth to her third child, Didi Wood goes to the mall to escape the Dallas heat and do a little shopping. She is supposed to meet her husband for lunch in an hour, but a chance encounter with a stranger changes everything. When Didi does not show up, Richard Wood first gets worried, then anxious, then frantic. And with good reason. His pregnant wife seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. As the FBI joins Richard in a desperate search for his wife and unborn child, Didi’s terrifying eleven-hour ride takes her to the brink of all endurance and puts her on a collision course with fate itself. External links eclectic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleven (novel)
''Eleven'' is a 2006 novel by David Llewellyn and published by Seren Press. ''Eleven'' is written entirely in the form of emails, drawing to a certain extent upon the tradition of epistolary novels. The action of the novel is limited to a single day, between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm. Reception Niall Griffiths wrote that ''Eleven'' "conveys an almost unbearable poignancy". Rob Dawson, writing in ''Gay Times'' commented that "the characters are a little too stereotypical at times", while Nicholas Clee in ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...'' described it as "a funny (and) disturbing view of a disaffected age". Author Ray French voted it one of his "Top Ten Black Comedies" in ''The Guardian''. See also * September 11, 2001 attacks in po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' (retrospectively titled ''Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'' in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by a nuclear global war. The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who has to "retire" (i.e. kill) six escaped Nexus-6 model androids, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-par IQ who aids the fugitive androids. The book served as the basis for the 1982 film '' Blade Runner'' and, even though some aspects of the novel were changed, many elements and themes from it were used in the film's 2017 sequel '' Blade Runner 2049''. Plot summary In a futuristic 1992 ( 2021 in later editions), after a global war that rendered Earth's atmosphere highly radioactive, most animal species are now endangered or extinct. As a result, owning real animal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dinner (novel)
''The Dinner'' (Dutch: ''Het Diner'') is a novel by the Dutch author Herman Koch. The book was first published by Ambo Anthos in 2009. It was translated into English by Sam Garrett, published in Great Britain in 2012, and the United States in 2013. The book became an international bestseller with many translations and has been adapted into four films. Plot The story is narrated by Paul Lohman, a former history teacher. He and his wife Claire meet at a fancy restaurant in Amsterdam with his elder brother Serge, a prominent politician and contender for the position of Prime Minister of the Netherlands, and his wife Babette. The plan is to discuss over dinner how to handle a crime committed by their teenage sons, Michel and Rick, respectively. The violent act of the two boys had been filmed by a security camera and shown on TV, but, so far, they have not been identified. The parents have to decide on what to do. They debate over dinner causing tension throughout the evening. Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Of A River Guide
''Death of a River Guide'' is a 1994 novel by Australian author Richard Flanagan. ''Death of a River Guide'' was Flanagan's first novel. Synopsis As Aljaz Cosini lies dying at the bottom of a river in Tasmania he starts to experience a series of flashbacks, forcing him to re-examine his own life. Critical reception The reviewer on ''The Novel Approach'' website stated: "It's startling (and, quite frankly, a little depressing) to realise that Death of a River Guide is Flanagan's first novel. Not only is he in complete command of the language—in his descriptions of Aljaz's interiority as well as his bountiful descriptions of the Franklin River and its surroundings—but structurally, too, the novel is almost perfect." In ''The Canberra Times'' Marian Eldridge noted the connection between character and landscape: "Land use, convicts, brutality, migration, and racial prejudice all are strands in Aljaz's heritage. When, I wondered, are we going to consider the original inhabitants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Lasts More Than A Hundred Years
''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'' (, "And longer than a century lasts a day"), originally published in Russian in the ''Novy Mir'' literary magazine in 1980, is a novel written by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov. The novel was included into the 2013 list 100 Books for Schoolchildren recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia). The title of the novel In an introduction written in 1990, during ''perestroika'', the author wrote that the original title was ''The Hoop'' ("Обруч"), which was rejected by censors. The title ''The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years'', taken from the poem "Unique Days" ("Единственные дни") by Boris Pasternak, used for the magazine version (''Novy Mir'', #11, 1980), was also criticized as too complicated, and the first "book-size" version of the novel was printed in ''Roman-Gazeta'' in a censored form under the title ''The Buranny Railway Stop'' (Буранный полустанок). Introduction The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Da Vinci Code
''The Da Vinci Code'' is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is “the best-selling American novel of all time.” Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon—the first was his 2000 novel '' Angels & Demons''—''The Da Vinci Code'' follows symbologist Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris entangles them in a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. The novel explores an alternative religious history, whose central plot point is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, ideas derived from Clive Prince's '' The Templar Revelation'' (1997) and books by Margaret Starbird. The book also refers to '' The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail'' (1982), although Brown stated that it was not used as research material. ''The Da Vinci Code'' provoked a popular inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmétique De L'ennemi
''The Enemy's Cosmetique'' () is the tenth novel written by Belgian author Amélie Nothomb. It was also the tenth book published by Albin Michel. It was first published in 2001. Plot summary ''"Without wanting to, I have committed the perfect crime: nobody saw me coming, except for the victim. The proof, I am still free."'' The whole story takes place at an airport. Jérôme Angust, a man on a business trip, waits for a delayed flight. He meets another man, who introduces himself as Textor Texel from Holland. At first Angust is annoyed by Texel, who insists on talking to him, despite cues that Angust is not interested in being engaged. He wonders why Texel insists on talking to him. Texel explains that he simply wants to, and he always does exactly what he wants. Eventually Angust becomes drawn into the conversation. Texel begins telling a story about his childhood, in which he believes he "murdered" one of his elementary-school classmates. Texel explains that as a child he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cosmopolis (novel)
''Cosmopolis'' is a novel by American writer Don DeLillo. His thirteenth novel, it was published by Scribner on April 14, 2003. Plot summary ''Cosmopolis'' is the story of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire and asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut. He drives around in a stretch limo, which is richly described as luxurious, spacious and highly technical, filled with television screens and computer monitors, bulletproofed and floored with Carrara marble. It is also cork-lined to eliminate (although unsuccessfully, as Packer notes) the intrusion of street noise. Packer's voyage is obstructed by various traffic jams caused by a presidential visit to the city, a full-fledged anti-capitalist riot, and a funeral procession for a Sufi rap star. Along the way, the hero has several chance meetings with his wife and sexual encounters with other women. Packer is also stalked by two men, a comical "pastry assassin" and an unstable "cred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concluding
''Concluding'' is a novel by British writer Henry Green first published in 1948. It is set entirely on the expansive and idyllic premises of a state-run institution for girls somewhere in rural England and chronicles the events of one summer's day—a Wednesday, and "Founder's Day"—in the lives of the staff, the students, and several other people living on the grounds. During that day, two girls go missing. Plot summary The school has been run since its inception ten years earlier by two elderly educators, Mabel Edge and Hermione Baker, who are regarded by many as old spinsters hopelessly out of touch with reality, especially with what their teenage charges really think and feel. The 300 or so students are virtually indistinguishable from one another, a fact which is stressed by their names all starting with the letter M: Margot, Marion, Mary, Melissa, Merode, Midget, Mirabel, Moira. Their budding but suppressed sexuality—they are all between 16 and 18 years of age and "goi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
