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5. Fences (2016) PG-13 | 139 min | Drama. A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life. Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo.
- The Killer Angels
- The Age of Innocence
- The Old Man and The Sea
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Hours
- The Road
- Gone with The Wind
- Lonesome Dove
- The Color Purple
- To Kill A Mockingbird
Michael Shaara's 1974 fiction book (McKay) The Killer Angels, ishailed as a novel that reminds readers of the horrors humankind is capable of in wartime. Shaara's novel immerses its audiences in the heart, minds, and spirits of Union and Rebel soldiers through 4 days and into the fatal Civil War. Shaara writes with a command of history that's unmat...
The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton (won 1921- the first woman to win the coveted prize) details the account of Newland Archer, May Weeland, and May's cousin Ellen as they navigate the struggle between Gilded Age New York's societal rules and conventions against the passionate love and desire of the three characters. Wharton lends a voice ...
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952 from Scribner) is recognized for its prose and plot of an old man at sea attempting to catch one more fish after a dry spell. It peers inside the physical, emotional, and mental toil of a man in his golden years who wants to prove himself as he wrestles with strong forces. It mirrors the author...
John Steinbeck's novelfrom Viking (1938, won in 1940) is known and appreciated for its simple, concise, and plain language, as well as its rich description and compelling plot tracking the Joad family from Oklahoma to California in the middle and after the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck's book is a tragic social and historical commentary on the injustices of...
Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel The Hours (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux), for which he won in 1999, takes its cues from Virginia Woolf to interweave the life of her and two 20th-century American women dealing with love, inheritance, hope, and despair, as they attempt to carve out the lives they want for themselves despite various obstacles. The Hours w...
Cormac McCarthy's novel (2006) about a dystopian, devastated America is a love letter between a father and son who have to traverse the destroyed landscape of the United States full of lawless bands of rogue people scavenging for food, supplies, and a way to survive. All father and son have are their own provisions, a pistol, and one another. The b...
Gone with the Wind (1936, won in 1937), a book of epic proportions, is a Bildungsroman-woven tale spun by Margaret Mitchell about romance, history, and the social structures of the deep South. Mitchell's novel deals with the transformative face of the South before, during, and after the Civil War, as well as the institution of slavery, a woman's ro...
Simon & Schuster's Lonesome Dove, (1985) by Larry McMurtry, received the prize in 1986 for its epic Western of life near the 'Texican' border that grapples with humankind's relationship to the natural world, love, lawlessness, mortality, respect/reputation, and more that make this text stand up against the test of time. For its larger-than-life plo...
Alice Walker's searing historical fiction epistolary/confessional bookfrom Harcourt Brace details Celie's life as she confronts verbal, physical, and sexual abuse by the men in her life, as well as the poverty-stricken home she lives in and the demands made to her by her family, friends, and society-at-large. In her letters to God, readers bear wit...
This high-school reading book from Harper Leeand Lippincott in 1960 recounts Scout, her brother, and her lawyer father in Alabama during the Depression-era South as he defends a black man on trial for the rape of a white woman. Good and evil's coexistence, childhood innocence, law, a moral education, and other themes spill from the pages of this cl...
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- The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Book published: 2007. Movie released: 2011. Evoking graphic novels, picture books, flip books, and films, The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick is utterly brilliant.
- My Abandonment by Peter Rock. Book published: 2009. Movie released: 2018. Inspired by a true story and told through the vantage point of its teenage protagonist, My Abandonment is a tale of survival, family, and what it means to have a loving home.
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Book published: 2009. Movie released: 2011. This novel is one of the best historical fiction books ever written, and as far as books made into movies go, both have made an impact on readers and viewers alike.
- The Cider House Rules by John Irving. Book published: 1985. Movie released: 1999. Set in a Maine orphanage, this classic by John Irving is harsh and dark—and essential.
A tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery. Votes: 97,170 | Gross: $98.47M. Pulitzer Prize Winner - 1983.
- The Road. Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic tale is about a journey of a father and son go across a landscape blasted by a nuclear bomb that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth.
- The Hours. Three women from three different generations are all connected by the book Mrs. Dalloway written by Virginia Woolf. This is the premise behind the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner The Hours, and its subsequent film adaptation.
- The Magnificent Ambersons. This 1918 novel written by Booth Tarkington follows an American family that locally ruled the roost and was vanished virtually in a day as the town spread into a city.
- The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton’s twelfth novel, Age of Innocence, was set in the upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so-called Gilded Age.
Sep 13, 2019 · The Color Purple marked director Steven Spielberg's eighth film and a marked departure from his action-heavy blockbusters of the time. Based on Alice Walker's 1982 Pulitzer-winning novel, the film ...
Oct 7, 2015 · The Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner was itself based on a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the book Tales of the South Pacific. The original Broadway production enjoyed immense critical and box-office success, it became the second-longest running Broadway musical to that point (behind Rodgers and Hammerstein’s earlier Oklahoma!), and has remained ...
