DOCSLIB.ORG

Summer Reading List

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Summer Reading List AP Literature 2012-2013 Contact information: All assignments and information are posted electronically on the blog: http://mrgiorgi.blogspot.com I can also be reached by email: [email protected], [email protected] (in case there is problem with school email) Required Books—your responsibility You should read each of the following six (6) books during summer vacation. This year we are doing six because some of the novels are very short. You should take notes on each in a journal, on note cards, or in a computer file you can easily reference when you return to school. Read the Thomas Foster book first For this book make notes on each chapter as he always gives you something to look for. Read the novels in any order you like For each of the five novels, it is suggested that you keep a record of the following: Basic plot points Main characters and brief description of each Important symbols and explanations At least two important themes from each book with appropriate commentary on each Any additional information that will help you in class. Required Writing—your responsibility Write your College Essay From the Common App: “Please write an essay (250 words minimum) on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below, and attach it to your application before submission. Please indicate your topic by checking the appropriate box. This personal essay helps us become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself.” 1. Evaluate a significant experience, achievement, risk you have taken, or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. 2. Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you. 3. Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you, and describe that influence. 4. Describe a character in fiction, a historical figure, or a creative work (as in art, music, science, etc.) that has had an influence on you, and explain that influence. 5. A range of academic interests, personal perspectives, and life experiences adds much to the educational mix. Given your personal background, describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you. 6. Topic of your choice. When you return to school: There will be a comprehensive assessment when you return, including a 50 question multiple choice exam related to the 6 required books as well as essays and class work on each of the books. The first 4-5 weeks will depend on the summer reading. Be ready on day one. No, I will not be collecting your notes, but will be happy to go over them with you if you like. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Hate symbols? Haven’t read the Bible? Can’t recognize a poetic form when you see one? Think water is just something you swim in? Think your English teacher is constantly making stuff up in class? Well, read Thomas Foster’s book on the art of reading and it will change the way you will read forever…and make the course one of the most enjoyable experiences ever. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Winner of the Man Booker Prize and written by a former Financial Times writer from Mumbai who has a bird’s eye view of both globalization and daily life for the majority of Indians, this is perhaps the most penetrating look at modern India yet offered by a contemporary novelist. Framed as a series of letters by Balram to Wen Jiabao, Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, this novel also looks at the relationship between the rising powers of India and China and a vision of the future. Connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and Cosmopolis by Don Delillo. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Short listed for the Man Book Prize by the author of Moth Smoke, this is A novel about 9/11 told through the eyes of a Pakistani living, studying, and working in the United States. The novel is by a Pakistani expatriate living in London; the author was short-listed for the Pen-Hemingway award for Moth Smoke. This book connects to Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo and The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Boy21 by Matthew Quick Matthew Quick has earned a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention and his first novel, The Silver Linings Playbook is now a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. In his latest novel, is about a friendship between two high school basketball players. For Finley, basketball has always been an escape from his life in Bellmont, a Philadelphia town ruled by the Irish Mob, drugs and violence. He’s always dreamed of getting out somehow with his girlfriend, Erin. Russ has just moved to the neighborhood. A former teen basketball phenom from a privileged home, his life has been turned upside down by tragedy. Cut off from everyone he knows, he now answers only to the name Boy21—his former jersey number—and has an unusual obsession with outer space. As their final year of high school brings these two boys together, “Boy21” may turn out to be the answer they both need. Cosmopolis by Don Delillo National Book Award winner Don DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer "wants to be one civilization ahead of this one." But on an April day in the year 2000, Eric's fortune and life fall apart. The story tracks him as he traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthony's, his father's old barber. Though this novel was published in 2004, it seems to have anticipated our contemporary times and has been turned into a motion picture by David Cronenberg. This book connects to White Tiger by Aravind Adiga and The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. (Special Note: Avoid the movie as it is different from the novel.) A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving The story of John Wheelwright and his best friend Owen Meany. It is a story of faith and a tale of love, war, and family told in a grand style that captures the last half century of America’s history and reflects on the country’s roots. Suggested Books for Self Selected Reading Codes: “Blank”= reasonable; “SS”=short and sweet; “C”=challenging; “RC”=Really Challenging; “L”=Long; “RL”=Really Long My Antonia by Willa Cather The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean Howells Remains of the Day, An Artist of the Floating World, The Unconsoled, A Pale Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Pudd’nhead View of Hills, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Wilson, Mark Twain Ethan Frome; Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton Sister Carrie (L), Theodore Dreiser Beloved, Song of Soloman, Toni Morrison Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston Bellefleur, We were the Mulvaneys Joyce Carol Oates McTeague, Frank Norris Mile Zero, The Zoot Suit Murders, Thomas Sanchez The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett A Thousand Acres, Age of Grief, Jane Smiley Moby Dick (LC), Herman Melville Point Omega (F), Running Dog, Players, Libra (JFK), Mao II, Underworld A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The First 49 Short Stories, To (LC), The Body Artist (SC), Don DeLillo Have and Have Not, The Garden of Eden Ernest Hemingway House on Mango Street (SS), Sandra Cisneros Where I’m Calling From, Cathedral, Raymond Carver In the Time of the Butterflies (H), Julia Alvarez Nostromo (LC), Lord Jim Joseph Conrad The Sweet Hereafter, Continental Drift, Affliction, Rule of the Bone, Russell The Metamorphosis, Kafka Banks The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (SS), Luis Sepulveda Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie Anna Karenina (LC), Leo Tolstoy The Crying of Lot 49 (SS), Gravity’s Rainbow (RLRC), Thomas Pynchon The Recognitions (RLRC), A Frolic of His Own (RLRC), William Gaddis Turn of the Screw (SS), Daisy Miller(SS), What Maisie Knew (C), Henry A Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde James The Brothers Karamazov (L), Fyodor Dostoyevsky As I Lay Dying(C), Absalom Absalom!! (C), The Sound & The Fury(C), Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence William Faulkner To The Lighthouse, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf Dubliners (SS), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses (RLRC), James The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje Joyce House of Meetings, Time’s Arrow, Money, The Information, Heavy Water The Eye, Pale Fire (RC), Vladimir Nabokov and Other Stories, Martin Amis Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, Crucible, Arthur Miller Straight Man, Richard Russo Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur and George, A Sense of Ending Julian Barnes The Millstone, Margaret Drabble The Marrow of Tradition, Charles Chesnutt The Bonfire of the Vanities, Thomas Wolfe The Robber Bride, Wilderness Tips, Margaret Atwood The Silver Linings Playbook Matt Quick Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens. Mary & O’Neil, The Summer Guest Justin Cronin Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Hygiene and the Assassin, The Character of Rain Amelie Nothomb Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle(RLRC) Haruki Murakami The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, John Irving The Magus, The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion, Jane Austen .
Recommended publications
  • ENGL 6115 Syllabus SSII 2020

    ENGL 6115 Syllabus SSII 2020

    English 6115 21st Century Global Anglophone Literature Virtual sessions on Google Meet, Wednesdays from 5:30-8:00 Instructor: Matt Franks Virtual Office Hours on Google Meet, Thursdays from 4-5 & by appt. Email: [email protected] Course Description: This class will focus on British, South Asian, African, and Caribbean literature from the past 20 years. We will engage in these texts through a transnational feminist framework focused on the afterlives of slavery and colonialism in the 21st century and ongoing resistance to gender, racial, and class domination. We will attempt to describe the current state of global literatures written in English, asking some of the following questions: how do contemporary writers and theorists respond to late 20th century global frameworks like postcolonialism, subaltern studies, and the black Atlantic? How has advanced globalization impacted formerly colonized sites as well as literary production itself? What problems does the term “Global Anglophone” itself elucidate and conceal? Required Texts: Zadie Smith, NW; Mohsin Hamid, Exit West; Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun; Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other; M. NourbeSe Philip, Zong!; Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return; Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf Learning Outcomes: Students will learn to… ® Demonstrate advanced mastery of content within the field of contemporary Global Anglophone literary studies by answering comprehensive discussion questions about specific writers, genres, texts, and theories within this period in class discussions. ® Demonstrate refined skills in scholarly writing by completing an extended research-based project. ® Demonstrate a facility in relating the facts and ideas of the discipline of English studies to the field of Global Anglophone literature and theory within the context of Western intellectual history.
  • The Inauthentic Portrayal of India in Aravind Adiga's the White Tiger

    The Inauthentic Portrayal of India in Aravind Adiga's the White Tiger

    THE INAUTHENTIC PORTRAYAL OF INDIA IN ARAVIND ADIGA’S THE WHITE TIGER DR. S. MURUGARAJAN Lt. S. NITHYA SGT, PUPS, Assistant Professor, Perumalkovil Pudur, Erode 638151 Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, (TN) INDIA Coimbatore. (TN) INDIA The White Tiger is the reflection of the mind of an Indian born outsider Aravind Adiga. It had won the Booker Prize for Literature in 2008 for its presentation of his ‘Real India’. But truly it is not. It is a cynical anthropology from an outsider. Adiga may be born in India but his novel exposes himself as an outsider. The Indian critics have commended him as an outsider because of his ideas and thoughts, which represented in his novel through the mouth of the protagonist Balram Halwai. Adiga’s The White Tiger is published in 2008 and the same year it had won the man of booker prize. That makes everyone to look at him. It is an attempt to reveal the inauthentic presentation of India by Aravind Adiga. INTRODUCTION The White Tiger is a debut novel, which describes India in a different point of view. Adiga gives a picture or tale of two India’s, the India of Darkness and Light, the India of Poverty. And this novel comes across an inauthentic portrait by real India, it is the comment given by the critics of India. Most of the foreign critics and others are praised Adiga for his presentation of India in a different angle. But the Indian Critics did not accept the views and presentation of such ideas. DR. S. MURUGARAJAN Lt.
  • ADKINS-DOCUMENT-2016.Pdf

    ADKINS-DOCUMENT-2016.Pdf

    Copyright Alexander Adkins 2016 ABSTRACT Postcolonial Satire in Cynical Times by Alexander Adkins Following post-1945 decolonization, many anticolonial figures became disenchanted, for they witnessed not the birth of social revolution, but the mere transfer of power from corrupt white elites to corrupt native elites. Soon after, many postcolonial writers jettisoned the political sincerity of social realism for satire—a less naïve, more pessimistic literary genre and approach to social critique. Satires about the postcolonial condition employ a cynical idiom even as they often take political cynicism as their chief object of derision. This dissertation is among the first literary studies to discuss the use of satire in postcolonial writing, exploring how and why some major Anglophone global writers from decolonization onward use the genre to critique political cynicisms affecting the developing world. It does so by weaving together seemingly disparate novels from the 1960s until today, including Chinua Achebe’s sendup of failed idealism in Africa, Salman Rushdie’s and Hanif Kureishi’s caricatures of Margaret Thatcher’s enterprise culture, and Aravind Adiga’s and Mohsin Hamid’s parodies of self-help narratives in South Asia. Satire is an effective form of social critique for these authors because it is equal opportunity, avoiding simplistic approaches to power and oppression in the postcolonial era. Satire often blames everyone—including itself—by insisting on irony, hypocrisy, and interdependence as existential conditions. Postcolonial satires ridicule victims and victimizers alike, exchanging the politics of blame for messiness, association, and implication. The satires examined here emphasize that we are all, to different degrees, mutually implicated subjects, especially in the era of global capitalism.
  • Exhuming the Narrator in the Buried Giant Jay Campbell

    Exhuming the Narrator in the Buried Giant Jay Campbell

    EXHUMING THE NARRATOR IN THE BURIED GIANT GENRE AND INTERTEXTUAL INFERENCE IN THE NOVELS OF KAZUO ISHIGURO BY JAY CAMPBELL FORLONG A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON IN FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON 2019 2 Contents Abstract .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 7 Method and Theory .................................................................................................................................. 14 Chapter Overviews.................................................................................................................................... 18 Chapter One – Establishing Expectations of Mimesis ..................................................... 23 Realism and The Remains of the Day ............................................................................................... 24 Science Fiction and Never Let Me Go ................................................................................................ 35 Chapter Two – The Buried Giant and Pushing Beyond Mimesis .................................. 45 Intentional Awkwardness and Synthetic Commitments ........................................................ 48 Expecting the Unexpected and Deferred Revelation
  • Read Doc \ the Unconsoled (Paperback)

    Read Doc \ the Unconsoled (Paperback)

    2FFYVLPX4LS6 » Kindle » The Unconsoled (Paperback) Find Doc THE UNCONSOLED (PAPERBACK) FABER FABER, United Kingdom, 2013. Paperback. Condition: New. Main. Language: English . Brand New Book. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to... Read PDF The Unconsoled (Paperback) Authored by Kazuo Ishiguro Released at 2013 Filesize: 7.17 MB Reviews This publication is fantastic. It can be rally intriguing throgh looking at time. You may like the way the author compose this publication. -- Mr. Wilber Thiel Good e book and valuable one. Better then never, though i am quite late in start reading this one. You are going to like how the article writer publish this publication. -- Malcolm Block TERMS | DMCA ZF5DAOXZAVND » Doc » The Unconsoled (Paperback) Related Books Index to the Classified Subject Catalogue of the Buffalo Library; The Whole System Being Adopted from the Classification and Subject Index of Mr. Melvil Dewey,... Six Steps to Inclusive Preschool Curriculum: A UDL-Based Framework for Children's School Success Two Treatises: The Pearle of the Gospell, and the Pilgrims Profession to Which Is Added a Glasse for Gentlewomen to Dresse Themselues By. by Thomas... The Frog Tells Her Side of the Story: Hey God, I m Having an Awful Vacation in Egypt Thanks to Moses! (Hardback) Accused: My Fight for Truth, Justice and the Strength to Forgive.
  • The Price of Our Silence Exegesis: Modern Indian English Novel ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Hanadi Falki MCW 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    The Price of Our Silence Exegesis: Modern Indian English Novel ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Hanadi Falki MCW 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

    ! Thesis: The Price of Our Silence Exegesis: Modern Indian English Novel ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Hanadi Falki MCW 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !1 Contents ! ! Pages 1. Attestation of Authorship ii 2. Abstract iii 3. Thesis- The Price of Our Silence 1 4. Exegesis- Modern Indian English Novel 311 5. References 333 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !2 Attestation of Authorship ! I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, it contains no material preciously published or written by another person (except where explicitly defined in the acknowledgements), nor material which to a substantial extent has been submitted for the award of any degree or diploma of a university or other institution of higher learning. ! ! ! Signed : __________________________Hanadi Falki Date : 26th November, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !3 Abstract ! The creative thesis titled ‘The Price of Our Silence’ is a realistic fictional novel that taps into the world of the growing 3D Stereoscopic Production Companies in India. The novel traces the lives of the young stereo-compositing artists who meet in an increasingly deterioting work environment, coming from diverse backgrounds, having different dreams and their own distinct characteristics brought together in the sacred bond of friendship. As the novel explores what it is to be young and restless in the contemporary Indian society, it required representation of multiple viewpoints. So the thesis has been written in third person subjective through the eyes of three main protagonists, and at times, in
  • On Rereading Kazuo Ishiguro Chris Holmes, Kelly Mee Rich

    On Rereading Kazuo Ishiguro Chris Holmes, Kelly Mee Rich

    On Rereading Kazuo Ishiguro Chris Holmes, Kelly Mee Rich MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 67, Number 1, Spring 2021, pp. 1-19 (Article) Published by Johns Hopkins University Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786756 [ Access provided at 1 Apr 2021 01:55 GMT from Ithaca College ] Chris Holmes and Kelly Mee Rich 1 On Rereading Kazuo f Ishiguro Chris Holmes and Kelly Mee Rich To consider the career of a single author is necessarily an exercise in rereading. It means revisiting their work, certainly, but also, more carefully, studying how the impress of their authorship evolves over time, and what core elements remain that make them recognizably themselves. Of those authors writing today, Kazuo Ishiguro lends himself exceptionally well to rereading in part because his oeuvre, especially his novels, are so coherent. Featuring first-person narrators reflecting on the remains of their day, these protagonists struggle to come to terms with their participation in structures of harm, and do so with a formal complexity and tonal distance that suggests unreli- ability or a vexed relationship to their own place in the order of things. Ishiguro is also an impeccable re-reader, as the intertextuality of his prose suggests. He convincingly inhabits, as well as cleverly rewrites, existing genres such as the country house novel, the novel of manners, the English boarding school novel, the mystery novel, the bildung- sroman, science fiction, and, most recently, Arthurian fantasy. Artist, detective, pianist, clone: to read Ishiguro always entails rereading in relation to his own oeuvre, as well as to the literary canon.
  • Addition to Summer Letter

    Addition to Summer Letter

    May 2020 Dear Student, You are enrolled in Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition for the coming school year. Bowling Green High School has offered this course since 1983. I thought that I would tell you a little bit about the course and what will be expected of you. Please share this letter with your parents or guardians. A.P. Literature and Composition is a year-long class that is taught on a college freshman level. This means that we will read college level texts—often from college anthologies—and we will deal with other materials generally taught in college. You should be advised that some of these texts are sophisticated and contain mature themes and/or advanced levels of difficulty. In this class we will concentrate on refining reading, writing, and critical analysis skills, as well as personal reactions to literature. A.P. Literature is not a survey course or a history of literature course so instead of studying English and world literature chronologically, we will be studying a mix of classic and contemporary pieces of fiction from all eras and from diverse cultures. This gives us an opportunity to develop more than a superficial understanding of literary works and their ideas. Writing is at the heart of this A.P. course, so you will write often in journals, in both personal and researched essays, and in creative responses. You will need to revise your writing. I have found that even good students—like you—need to refine, mature, and improve their writing skills. You will have to work diligently at revising major essays.
  • Wait Upon Ishiguro, Englishness, and Class

    Wait Upon Ishiguro, Englishness, and Class

    CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Purdue University Press ©Purdue University Volume 15 (2013) Issue 2 Article 10 Wait upon Ishiguro, Englishness, and Class Mustapha Marrouchi University of of Nevada Las Vegas Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Part of the American Studies Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Education Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Reading and Language Commons, Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Television Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact: <[email protected]> Recommended Citation Marrouchi, Mustapha.
  • Needle's Eye, Volume 29, Number 4

    Needle's Eye, Volume 29, Number 4

    VATE October 2017 VOICES Thank You for Reading Conference Preview Tori Otstot, Editor Ashlee Meredith, President-Elect Welcome back, teacher friends! Matthew Quick By now, your school year is well underway. You’ve worked Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author on building a community in your classroom, helped students of The Silver Linings Playbook, which was made into an understand your classroom expectations and procedures, Oscar-winning film; The Good Luck of Right Now; Love May collected writing samples, conducted diagnostic testing, Fail; The Reason You're Alive; and four young adult organized countless forms, and maybe even got a little novels: Sorta Like a Rock Star; Boy21; Forgive Me, sleep at night! One thing that I hope you’ve found time to Leonard Peacock; and Every Exquisite Thing. His work has do is register for our upcoming fall conference and book been translated into more than thirty languages, received a your hotel room at our conference hotel, but if you haven’t, PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA you still have time! Please check out the flyer in the Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review newsletter for more information, and visit our website to Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher register for the conference and book your hotel room. Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s 2016 High School Teacher of Excellence Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has Jenny Martin named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.
  • 9783039119974 Intro 002.Pdf

    9783039119974 Intro 002.Pdf

    Introduction Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, is among the most cel­ ebrated writers in contemporary Britain. He embarked on a writing career with A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), but did not secure a firm foothold in the profession until the publication of The Remains of the Day (1989). Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day was adapted into a Merchant–Ivory film in 1993, which drew even greater attention to his literary talent. After the huge success of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro experimented with a style notably dif ferent from the compact narrative that characterizes his first three novels. The Unconsoled (1995) exhibits dreamlike reality and proceeds in constant digressions. Lengthy and convoluted, the fourth novel received mixed responses from readers and critics. This perhaps explains why Whe n We Were Orphans (2000) and Never Let Me Go (2005) returned to Ishiguro’s earlier approach, a relatively realistic rendition of trauma and regret. Like the preceding two novels, his latest work Nocturnes (2009) exhibits real­ ism with occasional absurdity. In addition to the above-mentioned seven books, Ishiguro has written a number of short stories, TV scripts, and screenplays. Most of his short stories were published in the early 1980s. ‘A Strange and Sometimes Sad­ ness’ (1980) was first printed in a now extinct magazine,Bananas , and was collected, with ‘Waiting for J’ and ‘Getting Poisoned’, in Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981). ‘The Summer after the War’ and ‘October, 1948’ respectively appeared in Granta in 1983 and 1985 before both pieces were incorporated into An Artist of the Floating World.
  • Includes Our Main Attractions

    Includes Our Main Attractions

    Ambler Theater Previews89A SEPTEMBER – DECEMBER 2014 Benedict Cumberbatch in THE IMITATION GAME THE IMITATION Benedict Cumberbatch in INCLUDES OUR MAIN ATTRACTIONS AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS A MBLERT HEATER.ORG 215 345 7855 Welcome to the nonprofit Ambler Theater The Ambler Theater is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization. How can you support ADMISSION AMBLER THEATER the Ambler Theater? MEMBER General ............................................................$10.50 Be a member. Members ...........................................................$6.00 Become a member of the nonprofit Ambler Theater and Seniors (62+) & Students ..................................$8.00 show your support for good Matinees films and a cultural landmark. See back panel for a member- Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri before 4:30 ship form or join online. Your financial support is tax-deductible. Sat & Sun before 2:30 .......................................$8.00 Make a gift. Wed Early Matinee before 2:30 ..........................$7.00 Your additional gifts and support make us even better. Your Affiliated Theaters Members* ..........................$6.00 donations are fully tax-deductible. And you can even put your You must present your membership card to obtain membership discounts. name on a bronze star in the sidewalk! Ticket prices effective October 1, 2014. Contact our Business Office at 215 348 1878 x117 or at Visit our website for further ticket info. [email protected]. Be a sponsor. Receive prominent recognition for your business in exchange *Affiliated Theaters Members for helping our nonprofit theater. Recognition comes in a variety The Ambler Theater, the County Theater, the Hiway Theater, and the of ways – on our movie screens, in our brochures, and on our Princeton Garden Theatre have affiliated admission benefits.