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The Director (novel)
The Director () is a novel by United States author Henry Denker, published in 1971. The novel is about an ambitious young film director, named Jock Finley, who uses two prominent film stars Carr and Daisy Donnel (ostensibly based on Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe) to rebuild his already damaged career. The novel is laced with sharp dialogue and explicit sexual encounters in line with the counterculture of the 1970s. The Underlying theme of the novel is the clash of generations as of values.

Question: Who is the author of The Director?
Answer: Henry Denker
Action (play)
Play by Sam Shepard
Action is a 1974 play by Sam Shepard. The play, which scholar Stephen J. Bottoms described as "stark" and "plotless", is considered by scholars to be among his most important works. It has been compared to the work of Samuel Beckett. Production history. "Action" was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, in October 1974, directed by Nancy Meckler. The original cast was as follows:
The play was also performed at New York's American Place Theatre with a companion piece, Shepard's monologue "Killer's Head", premiered with it as a double bill. In 1975, Sam Shepard directed a revival of the play at the Magic Theater in San Francisco, where he was artist in residence. Plot summary. "Action" follows two men and two women stuck in a house on Christmas, after some implied disastrous event has taken place in the world. They attempt to cook a holiday dinner and perform other domestic rituals, from the mundane like hanging laundry, to the absurd like tap dancing and pretending to be bears. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Action?
Answer: Sam Shepard, Samuel Shepard Rogers III, Samuel "Sam" Shepard Rogers III
Saint (book)
Saint: Why I Should Be Canonized Right Away is a book written by American Catholic radio host Lino Rulli. It was released on September 3, 2013 and is the sequel to Rulli's 2011 book, "Sinner". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Saint?
Answer: Lino Rulli
Makers (novel)
2009 novel by Cory Doctorow
Makers is a novel by Canadian-British science fiction author Cory Doctorow released in October 2009. It was nominated for the Prometheus Award. The book focuses on a near-future imagining of members of the maker culture, a group Doctorow characterizes as being composed of "people who hack hardware, business-models, and living arrangements to discover ways of staying alive and happy even when the economy is falling down the toilet". The novel is available free on the author's website, as a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA download. It is also published in traditional paper form by HarperVoyager. The UK hardcover is 416 pages long. Storyline. The book is based on a near-future story of Lester and Perry, two hardware hackers, and Suzanne, a journalist. Lester and Perry rebuild devices or 3D print things to sell. Kettlewell, the CEO of Kodak and Duracell, becomes aware of this and sends the journalist Suzanne on site to report on it in her blog. Lester and Perry's manufactured products are then manufactured and sold in large quantities. Afterwards, Lester and Perry open an interactive museum and are sued by Disney. Since they file a counterclaim, they settle out of court and Lester transfers to Disney to make new products for them. The story contains numerous side-themes. For instance, extremely fat people like Lester can take a gene-therapy, if they can afford it, and become slim no matter how much they eat. The downside: they "must" now consume 10'000 kcal/d or so just to survive.

Question: Who is the author of Makers?
Answer: Cory Doctorow, craphound, Cory Efram Doctorow
The New Troy
1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas
Montevideo, or the new Troy () is an 1850 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is a historical novel about the Uruguayan Civil War, where the Uruguayan presidents Manuel Oribe and Fructuoso Rivera disputed the rule of the country. The name sets a parallelism with the Trojan War, as Oribe kept Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, under siege for many years (known as the Great Siege of Montevideo). The plot of the book makes a summary of the history of Uruguay, from Spanish colonization to the Civil War. Juan Manuel de Rosas, Juan Facundo Quiroga, José Gervasio Artigas, Bernardino Rivadavia, and Giuseppe Garibaldi are thus treated as literary characters. Dumas describes Artigas and Rosas as barbaric, and Montevideo as a source of civilization. A similar dichotomy between civilization and barbarism was the theme of "Facundo", another antirosist book published by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in 1845. Dumas described Rosas, who supported Oribe, as a coward who avoided the Argentine War of Independence and took control of Buenos Aires with a barbaric horde, and Montevideo as a heroic city standing against him. Dumas had never been to Uruguay, nor known first-hand about the war. His work was based on the reports of the antirosist Melchor Pacheco, who sought French support against Rosas, and thus twisted the information about Rosas' administration in order to get such support.

Question: Who is the author of The New Troy?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas, Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, Alexandre Dumas père, Alexandre Dumas pere, Alexandre Dumas, father, Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, Alexandre Dumas, the Elder
Bodies (novel)
Book by Jed Mercurio
Bodies is the first novel written by the British doctor-turned-novelist and -scriptwriter Jed Mercurio. It was published in 2002 and formed the basis of the award-winning BBC medical drama "Bodies". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Bodies?
Answer: Jed Mercurio, Gerald Gary Mercurio
Nevis Mountain Dew
1978 play written by Steve Carter
Nevis Mountain Dew is a 1978 play by American playwright steve carter . Set in the 1950s, it is the second of Carter's Caribbean trilogy. "Nevis Mountain Dew" explores the subject of euthanasia involving the patriarch of an affluent family who is confined to an iron lung. Plot synopsis. Set in the Queens borough of New York City in 1954, a Caribbean-American family gathers to celebrate the 50th birthday of Jared Philibert, who is confined to an iron lung due to paralysis. Ayton, Jared's best friend, arrives at the party with a bottle of rum called "Nevis Mountain Dew." When people drink it, the rum seems to act as a truth serum. Origins of the play. "Nevis Mountain Dew" is loosely based on the experience of a patient that the playwright encountered while working in a hospital. The play is dedicated to him. Original off-Broadway production. Understudies. "Nevis Mountain Dew" was selected among ten New York City productions as one of "The Best Plays of 1978–1979." Comparison with "Whose Life Is It Anyway?". Both "Nevis Mountain Dew" and Brian Clark's "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" were selected as one of the ten best plays of the 1978–1979 season in New York City. Each play tackles the subject of euthanasia through the eyes of a man that has become paralyzed.

Question: Who is the author of Nevis Mountain Dew?
Answer: Steve Carter
Saint Young Men
Japanese manga series by Hikaru Nakamura
 is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. Its plot involves Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, who are living as roommates in an apartment in Tokyo. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the monthly manga magazine "Morning Two" since September 2006, with chapters collected in twenty-one volumes as of March 2024. Kodansha USA has been publishing the series in English in an omnibus edition since December 2019. A-1 Pictures adapted the manga series into two original animation DVDs (OADs) and an anime film which was released on May 10, 2013. It also inspired a ten-episode live-action web series in 2018. In Japan, the "Saint Young Men" manga has sold over 16 million copies. Individual volumes of the series have frequently appeared on lists of the weekly and annual best-seller manga in Japan. It received a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009 and was nominated for a Manga Taishō Award in the same year. It was also nominated for Best Comic at the 2012 Angoulême International Comics Festival. Its film adaptation has been well received by the Japanese public. Overview. and , the central figures of Christianity and Buddhism respectively, are living together as roommates in an apartment in Tachikawa, part of the suburbs of Tokyo. While taking a vacation on Earth, they attempt to hide their identities and understand modern Japanese society. Each chapter shows their lives during an average day, when they are sightseeing, drinking beer, blogging, or playing video games.

Question: Who is the author of Saint Young Men?
Answer: Hikaru Nakamura
The Treatment (novel)
Book by Mo Hayder
The Treatment is a 2001 novel by British crime-writer Mo Hayder. The novel is based around the theme of pedophilia. It features her protagonist DI Jack Caffery. Plot. A husband and wife are discovered imprisoned in their own home near Brockwell Park in South London. It is a hot summer and they are badly dehydrated. They have been bound and beaten, and the husband seems close to death. Rory Peach, their 8-year-old son, is missing. Detective Inspector (DI) Jack Caffery is one of the police team. The disappearance of the boy rekindles memories in Caffery of his brother Ewan, who was abducted as a 9-year-old and never seen again. Caffery tries to find the boy at the same time as helping his girlfriend cope with having been sexually assaulted. He follows clues that might allow him to find out Ewan's fate. Patterns of child sexual abuse start to emerge, and Caffery tracks down a young man who was abused in the same park many years earlier as a child. Caffery is convinced that the attacker will be targeting another family. Rory's body is discovered, with evidence of sexual attack, but the DNA from semen is found to be that of Rory's father Alek. The case is turned on its head, and confusion is added when bite marks on the boy's shoulder do not match Alek's dental pattern. Caffery understands that Peach was forced to sodomise his son.

Question: Who is the author of The Treatment?
Answer: Mo Hayder, Beatrice Clare Dunkel, Clare Damaris Bastin, Candy Davis, Theo Clare, Clare Dunkel
Silence (1969 play)
Silence is a short play by Harold Pinter first performed in 1969. Production. The première was given by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London on 2 July 1969, directed by Peter Hall. The cast was:
The American première was given in 1970 by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, with Barbara Tarbuck, Robert Symonds and James Patterson, directed by Peter Gill. Background. In the introduction to the first volume of his "Complete Plays", Pinter wrote:
There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed. This speech is speaking of a language locked beneath it. That is its continual reference. The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its place. When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. In 1977 a musical setting of the play, composed by Michael Mantler, was released as a vinyl record. The main roles were sung by Kevin Coyne, Robert Wyatt and Carla Bley. Notes. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;
References. Pinter, Harold. "Plays: Three". London: Eyre Methuen, 1978. .

Question: Who is the author of Silence?
Answer: Harold Pinter
Dancing on Coral
1987 Australian novel by Glenda Adams
Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams. Synopsis. Lark Watter is desperate to leave behind her life in suburban Sydney in the 1960s. At university she meets an American, Tom Brown, and travels with him across the Pacific by freighter to a new life in the USA. Critical reception. Marion Halligan, in "The Canberra Times" referred to the novel as a "fine farce" and noted that the author "seems rather more interested in the episodes than the essentials; or maybe she sees herself as hiding the essentials in order to make her readers work at discovery. But I found that the pleasures of this book were in the multiplicity and complexity of its episodes, pleasures which appeal to the intellect as games and puzzles do. Emotions aren't important, amusement is." Notes. Parts of this novel first appeared in "Lies and Stories" and "The Hottest Night of the Century". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;
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Question: Who is the author of Dancing on Coral?
Answer: Glenda Adams, Glenda Emilie Adams
Glass (novel)
Novel by Ellen Hopkins
Glass is the second novel in the verse novel series "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins, published in hardcover in August 2007 and in softcover on April 7, 2009. The third book of the series, Fallout, was published in 2010. Like the previous novel in the series, "Glass" has been the subject of controversy, with the book being partially responsible for a public appearance by Hopkins getting cancelled due to parental complaints. Plot. Kristina thinks that now she has a baby to care for and love, she can quit her addiction. But she finds herself searching for Robyn, her old contact for the "street crank". While at Robyn's house she meets a boy named Trey and starts to crave for people to look like they want or need her. Once she gets home, she begins to work at a 7-Eleven to get the money to buy more crank. The manager there is a porn dealer and offers her a job as a prostitute, but she declines. After learning that her father is coming to her mother's home to be at the christening of her new baby, Hunter Seth, she begs her mother to let him come and she agrees, on the condition that Kristina has to be the one to tell her older sister Leigh. Once her father comes, he takes her to casinos for her eighteenth birthday party and they snort some lines while there. This causes Kristina to be almost late for Hunter's christening, but she manages to make it on time.

Question: Who is the author of Glass?
Answer: Ellen Hopkins, Ellen Louise Hopkins
Torch (novel)
2006 novel by Cheryl Strayed
Torch is the debut novel of American author Cheryl Strayed. Published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the book was a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award and was selected by "The Oregonian" as one of the top ten books of 2006 by writers living in the Pacific Northwest. The book presents the story of family crisis and grief through the failing health and subsequent death of a mother of two children in Minnesota. The book is loosely based on the real life of the author. Reception. "Torch" has been reviewed by journalists on staff at the "San Francisco Chronicle", "The Austin Chronicle", "Entertainment Weekly", "Curled Up", "Kirkus Reviews", and "Publishers Weekly". References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Torch?
Answer: Cheryl Strayed
Banks and Politics in America
Banks and Politics in America (1957) () is a book by Bray Hammond, which describes the differences in banking and politics in the United States between the American Revolution and the Civil War period. The book was awarded the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Banks and Politics in America?
Answer: Bray Hammond
Three Weeks (book)
1907 novel by Elinor Glyn
Three Weeks is a 1907 erotic romance novel by Elinor Glyn. Plot. Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties, is caught embracing the parson's daughter. His parents decide to send him away to France and then Switzerland. In Switzerland, he sees a woman referred to only as "the Lady". The Lady is older, in her thirties. After several days of exchanging lustful glances, they actually meet. She invites him to her apartment, where they share a sexual relationship for three weeks. Eventually, Paul learns the Lady is actually the queen of a Russian dependency and her husband, the king, is abusive towards her. She disappears after the titular three weeks; Paul is upset and returns to England. Paul later discovers that the Lady has given birth to their son. With his father's assistance, he finds out the Lady's identity; however, before they can meet again, she is murdered by her husband. Paul is upset and spends the next five years wandering around from country to country, until he decides to make preparations to meet his son. Reception. Critical reception was negative in the United Kingdom and United States. The book was described as disjointed, "dull and stupid", "boring, vulgar and extremely silly". Critics also made personal attacks on Glyn, saying she was complacent, her writing immature, and she was "indifferent to her own reputation".

Question: Who is the author of Three Weeks?
Answer: Elinor Glyn, Elinor Sutherland
Getting Free
1978 novel
Getting Free is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton that was first published in 1978. It tells the story of a teenage couple who ran away when they discovered they were expectant parents and to escape from an abusive and disapproving father. Concept. Hinton had neighbours who were famous mountain climbers, a young couple who were into things that he was not. He decided that writing about the couple would be good for him. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of Getting Free?
Answer: Nigel Hinton
The Marriage (Gombrowicz play)
Play written by Witold Gombrowicz
The Marriage () is a play by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz, written in Argentina after World War II. The narrative takes place in a dream, where the dreamer transforms into a king and plans to marry his fiancée in a royal wedding, only as a means to save their integrity. A Spanish translation was first published in 1948, followed by the original Polish version in 1953. The play was first performed in 1960. Plot. Henryk has a dream where his childhood home has been turned into an inn. His father is the innkeeper and his fiancée, Mania, is a serving maid. Drunkards begin to cause trouble and pursue the father. The father, to defend his dignity, claims that he is untouchable, "like a king". This would make Henryk a prince. Henryk is then promised a marriage with Mania, a marriage worthy of a royal in order to restore her purity. As the marriage is prepared—it will be celebrated by none other than a bishop—Henryk begins to have doubts about the validity of the dream. The drunkard enters and is about to fight Henryk when the scene changes into a court banquet. The drunkard is now an ambassador of a hostile nation. The drunkard makes Henryk's friend Władzio hold a flower over Mania's head. He then makes the flower disappear, leaving the two in an improper position, to Henryk's indignation. Henryk becomes a dictator who rules over the whole world. The marriage is still in preparation.

Question: Who is the author of The Marriage?
Answer: Witold Marian Gombrowicz, Gombrowicz, Witold Gombrowicz
Magic (short story collection)
1996 collection of short stories and essays by Isaac Asimov
Magic (1996) is a collection of short stories and essays by American writer Isaac Asimov, all within (or concerning, in the latter case) the fantasy genre, collected and released after his death. The first seven stories are part of his Azazel series, while the remainder are three more traditional medieval fantasies and one mystery story from Asimov's Black Widowers series.

Question: Who is the author of Magic?
Answer: Isaac Asimov, Isaak Osimov, Paul French, Asimov, Isaak Ozimov
Reunion (short story)
Short story by John Cheever
"Reunion" is a short story by the American writer John Cheever, first published in the October 27, 1962 issue of "The New Yorker", and later collected in "The Stories of John Cheever" (1978). It is about a boy who meets his father. Synopsis. Charlie, the narrator, recalls an afternoon meeting as a boy with his father while transferring trains at Grand Central Station in New York City. The boy is innocent and naive and expects his meeting with his father to be an opportunity to reconnect. When he abruptly leaves his father, we assume he now understands why his mother divorced his father, and he also ceases contact with the man. He no longer sees him as a fatherly figure. Tim Lieder notes that a great deal of the power in the story is between the way that the father sees himself (charming funny drunk) and the way that his son sees him (embarrassing bully)
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Question: Who is the author of Reunion?
Answer: John Cheever, John William Cheever
The Last Word (Knight short story)
"The Last Word" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the February 1957 issue of "Satellite Science Fiction" and has been reprinted twice, in "Far Out" (1961) and "The Best of Damon Knight" (1976). Synopsis. The story is told in first person, by a narrator who, it soon becomes clear, is Satan. He briefly recounts his history on Earth and tells how he directed people toward destructive activity, for instance by teaching them how to make gunpowder. Now the final war is over, and almost everyone has been killed. Satan comes across a man and a woman, the last survivors, who are inside a transparent dome that keeps out the contaminated air. The two people recognize Satan for who he is; Satan is troubled by their calm certitude, and asks about the elaborate machine that he sees inside their dome. He is told that it is a time machine, and that they are about to go "back to the beginning" to start over, this time without him:
The woman said, "You've won Armageddon, but you've lost Earth." I knew the answer to that, of course, but she was a woman and had the last word. I gestured toward the purple darkness outside. "Lost Earth? What do you call this?" She poised her hand on the switch. "Hell," she said. And I have remembered her voice, through ten thousand lonely years. Background.

Question: Who is the author of The Last Word?
Answer: Damon Knight, Damon Francis Knight, Stuart Fleming, Conanight
The Wrestling
1996 non-fiction book
The Wrestling is a non-fiction book by Simon Garfield, a British journalist and author. It charts the rise and fall in popularity of British professional wrestling over the course of the twentieth century. Overview. The book consists almost entirely of interviews with professional wrestlers or those who knew them, including Mick McManus, Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Kendo Nagasaki and the female wrestler Klondyke Kate, often giving the appearance of a conversation between the interviewees and the author. Garfield also interviewed those involved in the promotion of professional wrestling, with a particular focus on the decision of LWT chief Greg Dyke to drop the sport from its schedules in 1988. References. &lt;templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" /&gt;

Question: Who is the author of The Wrestling?
Answer: Simon Garfield, Simon Frank Garfield