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The Terranauts
''The Terranauts'' is a novel by T. C. Boyle, published in October 2016 by Ecco. It is set in a glassed-in biodome in Arizona, closely similar to the real-life Biosphere II. The plot focuses on two of the inside crew and one jealous outsider. Plot The setting is "Ecosphere 2," a very close analogy of the real-life ecological experiment Biosphere II, which is a 3.14 acre glass-enclosed biodome in Oracle Junction, Arizona. The novel is set in the fictional town of Tillman but the physical description of E2, as it's known, is exactly that of the Biosphere. As with the real-life experiment, four men and four women are shut in for a two-year mission, determined to be self-sufficient in food, water and oxygen. Also as with the real thing, technical problems and major personal strife threaten to end the mission prematurely. There are three narrators in Boyle's literary device--insiders Dawn Chapman and Ramsay Roothoorp, and outsider Linda Ryu. Chapman (nickname E) and Roothoorp (Vod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecco Press
Ecco is a New York–based publishing imprint of HarperCollins. It was founded in 1971 by Daniel Halpern as an independent publishing company; Publishers Weekly described it as "one of America's best-known literary houses." In 1999 Ecco was acquired by HarperCollins, with Halpern remaining at the head. Since 2000, Ecco has published the yearly anthology ''The Best American Science Writing'', edited by Jesse Cohen. In 2011, Ecco created two separate publishing lines, one "curated" by chef-author Anthony Bourdain and the other by novelist Dennis Lehane. History Halpern founded Ecco Press in 1971, originally to publish the literary magazine ''Antaeus (magazine), Antaeus''Deahl, Rachel"Milestones: Halpern Reflects on 40 Years of Ecco,"''Publishers Weekly'' (Nov. 25, 2011). (which folded in 1994). Ecco's name was suggested by Halpern's initial backer, ketchup heiress Drue Heinz. Initially, Ecco specialized in reissues and paperback editions of hardcovers previously published by other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Charles (critic)
Ron Charles (born 1962 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a book critic at ''The Washington Post''. His awards include the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Nona Balakian Citation for book reviews, and 1st Place for A&E Coverage from the Society for Features Journalism in 2011. He was one of three jurors for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize, 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Charles grew up in Town and Country, Missouri, and graduated from Principia College and Washington University in St. Louis before getting a job as a teacher at John Burroughs School. After a student's parent offhandedly suggested he try making a living as a book reviewer, Charles sent his first book review to ''The Christian Science Monitor'', which eventually hired him. He spent seven years as the ''Monitor''s book review editor and staff critic. In 2005, he was hired by the ''Washington Post''. Sometime after August 2010, with his review of Jonathan Franzen's ''Freedom (Franzen novel), Freedom'', Charles began a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By T
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. 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, Medieval Chivalric romance, and 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, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
