![]() ![]() While especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college and university library Literary Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists that "The Chosen and the Beautiful" is also readily available in a digital book format (Kindle, $13.99). She just has to learn how.Ĭritique: With a distinctive narrative storytelling style, author Nghi Vo's debut LBGTQ novel "The Chosen and the Beautiful" reinvents the American canon as a coming-of-age story full of magic, mystery, and glittering excess, and introduces a major new literary voice. In all paper is fire, and Jordan can burn the cut paper heart out of a man. She's also lesbian and Asian, a Vietnamese adoptee treated as an exotic attraction by her peers, while the most important doors remain closed to her.īut the world is full of wonders: infernal pacts and dazzling illusions, lost ghosts and elemental mysteries. ![]() Synopsis: Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s American society-she has money, education, a killer golf handicap, and invitations to some of the most exclusive parties of the Jazz Age.
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![]() ![]() ![]() “Audience and cost.” “A built-in sense of who it’s for and what it’s going to cost.”.You can probably guess the story’s duration (a single night? A weekend?) from it. ![]() “A compelling mental picture.” You can see the story, what might happen.“Isn’t it ironic?” Something unexpected or intriguing.The are four components a good logline should have: You need to be able to describe what the movie is about very briefly, one sentence. Snyder refers to all the characters as “he”, “dude” and “guys”… I’ve just stuck with that. This summary is my notes covering the main points, in case they’re useful or interesting to anyone else. The book doesn’t cover the details of writing a script, like structuring individual scenes, writing convincing characters, writing decent dialogue, etc, but is concerned with structuring the movie… all the stuff you may want to nail down before typing the first words. I had plenty of “Oh, of course, they do all do that” moments. Most Hollywood movies follow similar paths and it’s interesting to have that path spelled out. I assume the many other books about writing movies cover similar points but this seemed well done and useful. I recently read Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder (on Amazon UK and US) and it was a good read. ![]() ![]() Subsequently, he became a member of the directorate of the PCI, which he represented at several international conferences. Thus he took part in the founding of the Italian Communist party (PCI) in 1921 as a representative of the Socialist Youth movement. The circumstances forced him, as he once said, to endure firsthand three essential experiences: poverty, religion, and communism. ![]() He received part of his education at the local seminary and continued his studies in Reggio Calabria but interrupted them at the end of World War I, when he became interested in politics. In 1915 Silone lost both parents and five brothers as a result of an earthquake. Ignazio Silone was born Secondino Tranquilli on May 1, 1900, at Pescina dei Marsi in the Abruzzi. ![]() |