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The Ballad Of A Small Player
''The Ballad of a Small Player'' is a 2014 novel by British writer Lawrence Osborne. Set in the gambling casinos of Macau, it follows the fortunes of an English con man who passes himself off as a runaway Lord. Part ghost story, part psychological thriller, it earned Osborne comparisons with Graham Greene and Dostoevsky. Reception The novel was selected for numerous year's best novel lists, including the 100 Notable Books of 2014 in '' The New York Times'', by Neal Mukarjee in '' New Statesman'', and by Ian Crouch in '' The New Yorker''. It was admiringly reviewed by Tom Shone in ''The New York Times''. China scholar Paul French in the '' Los Angeles Review of Books'' wrote: "I'll come right out and say it... Osborne's novel is the best on contemporary China since Malraux's." Film adaptation A film adaptation for Netflix is currently in production directed by Edward Berger (''All Quiet on the Western Front ''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Osborne
Lawrence Osborne (born 1958) is a British novelist and journalist who is currently residing in Bangkok. Osborne was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in Poland, France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and Istanbul. Osborne has been published widely as a long-form journalist in the United States, most notably in ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Gourmet'', ''Salon'', ''Playboy'', and '' Condé Nast Traveler''. His writings about wine and spirits appeared in a regular column called Cellar in ''Men's Vogue''. He has also been an occasional Op-Ed columnist at Forbes.com and is a frequent contributor to ''Newsweek International'', ''The Daily Beast'', and ''The Wall Street Journal Magazine''. His feature for ''Playboy'', "Getting a Drink in Islamabad", won a 2011 Thomas Lowell Award for Travel Journalism. He is the author of the novel ''Ania Malina''; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and five Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Swinton began her career by appearing in the experimental films ''Caravaggio'' (1986), '' The Last of England'' (1988), ''War Requiem'' (1989), and '' The Garden'' (1990). Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Isabella of France in ''Edward II'' (1991). She next starred in Sally Potter's ''Orlando'' (1992), for which she was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in '' The Deep End'' (2001). That followed with appearances in ''Vanilla Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Laurence Osborne
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
