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Pleasantville is a 1998 American teen fantasy comedy-drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Gary Ross (in his directorial debut). It stars Tobey Maguire , Jeff Daniels , Joan Allen , William H. Macy , J. T. Walsh , and Reese Witherspoon , with Don Knotts , Paul Walker , Marley Shelton , and Jane Kaczmarek in supporting roles.
Pleasantville, the fictional town and setting for the TV series Big Wolf on Campus Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pleasantville .
The book was banned in Australia, [23] [24] and a book describing the British trial, The Trial of Lady Chatterley, was also banned. [25] In 1965 a copy of the British edition was smuggled into the country by Alexander William Sheppard , Leon Fink, and Ken Buckley, and then a run of 10,000 copies was printed and sold nationwide.
Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk.It was Palahniuk's first published novel, and follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia.The protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups, after his doctor remarks that insomnia is not "real suffering" and that he should find out what it is really like to suffer.
Tom Perrotta was born in Summit, New Jersey, and raised in Garwood, New Jersey, [1] where he spent his entire childhood, and was raised Roman Catholic. [2] His father was an Italian immigrant postal worker, whose parents emigrated from a village near Avellino, Campania, and his mother is an Albanian-Italian immigrant former secretary, who stayed home to raise him along with his older brother ...
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Paterson is the setting of many of Junot Díaz's short stories and novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and John Updike's 1997 novel In the Beauty of the Lilies. [239] The Poisoned Glass (2019) by Kimberly Tilley is the true story of the murder of 17-year-old immigrant Jennie Bosschieter in October ...
Frindle is a middle-grade American children's novel written by Andrew Clements, illustrated by Brian Selznick, and published by Aladdin Paperbacks in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 Phoenix Award, which is granted by the Children's Literature Association annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the ...