You In Five Acts

Author : Una LaMarche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101998953

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You in Five Acts by Una LaMarche Pdf

The latest contemporary novel from Una LaMarche, acclaimed author of Five Summers, Like No Other, and Don’t Fail Me Now. In the high-pressure months leading up to the performance that will determine their futures, a group of friends at a performing arts school look back on when an unexpected event upended everything. "A poignant and timely socially conscious narrative." —Kirkus It's always been you—you know that, right? At a prestigious New York City performing arts school, five friends connect over one dream of stardom. But for Joy, Diego, Liv, Ethan and Dave, that dream falters under the pressure of second-semester, Senior year. Ambitions shift and change, new emotions rush to the surface, and a sense of urgency pulses between them: Their time together is running out. Diego hopes to get out of the friend zone. Liv wants to escape, losing herself in fantasies of the new guy. Ethan conspires to turn his muse into his girlfriend. Dave pines for the drama queen. And if Joy doesn’t open her eyes, she could lose the love that’s been in front of her all along. An epic ensemble piece in the vein of Fame and Let’s Get Lost, You in Five Acts is a eulogy for a friendship—the heartbreaks, the betrayals, the inside jokes, the remember-whens. And the tragedy that changed everything.

Author : Una Lamarche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3423740469

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You in Five Acts by Una Lamarche Pdf

Author : Daniela Krien
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529406404

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Love in Five Acts by Daniela Krien Pdf

Author : John Yorke
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781846146442

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Into The Woods by John Yorke Pdf

Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? John Yorke has been telling stories almost his entire adult life, and the more he has done it, the more he has asked himself why? Every great thinker or writer has their theories: Aristotle, David Hare, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, Gustav Freytag, David Mamet, Christopher Booker, Charlie Kaufman, William Goldman and Aaron Sorkin - all have offered insightful and illuminating answers. Here, John Yorke draws on these figures and more as he takes us on a historical, philosophical, scientific and psychological journey to the heart of all storytelling. What he reveals is that there truly is a unifying shape to narrative - one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within. Much more than a 'how to write' book, Into the Woods is an exploration of this fundamental structure underneath all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing. With astonishing detail and wisdom, John Yorke explains to us a phenomenon that, whether it is as a simple fable, or a big-budget 3D blockbuster, most of us experience almost every day of our lives.

Author : Alex Espinoza
Publisher : Random House
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812984637

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The Five Acts of Diego Leon by Alex Espinoza Pdf

Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza, whose writing Lisa See has called “fresh, magical, beautiful, and evocative,” returns with a captivating, unforgettable novel set in Hollywood’s Golden Age, as a gifted and determined young man leaves Mexico—and everything he’s ever known—to follow his dreams. Growing up in a rural village at the height of the Mexican Revolution, Diego León has many first loves: singing, dancing, and hearing the stories of his ancestors, the P’urhépecha. But when tragedy strikes, young Diego is sent to the city to live with his aristocratic grandparents, who insist he forget his roots and groom him to take over the family business. Under pressure to enter a profession—and a life—he cares nothing for, and haunted by the violence once again erupting all around him, Diego flees his war-torn country to forge his own destiny. Diego arrives in Hollywood in 1927, when silent films are giving way to talkies, Prohibition is in full swing, and “Latin lover” types are sought out even as they are looked down upon. Working his way up in the movie business with talent and ingenuity, Diego soon figures out that getting one’s face on the silver screen has as much to do with what goes on behind the camera as what goes on in front of it. But the closer Diego comes to stardom, the more he finds that the past is not so easily escaped, as he is drawn again and again to the painful legacy of history and the wounds of his homeland. A sweeping, sensual novel of love, ambition, and identity, The Five Acts of Diego León bears all the marks of a classic Hollywood story: romance, betrayal, glamour, and an underdog hero to root for till the end. “An elegant, startling vision of a Mexican in America, The Five Acts of Diego León proclaims the ascendance of a unique new talent, Alex Espinoza—a Chicano in America certain to surpass the fame of his novel’s silent Hollywood hero. Espinoza takes our literature from a mute, black-and-white era to a national stage with full-spectrum color, in high-tech surround sound.”—Dagoberto Gilb, author of Before the End, After the Beginning

Author : Gretchen Woelfle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Actors
ISBN : 082342281X

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All the World's a Stage by Gretchen Woelfle Pdf

Based on fact, this coming-of-age story offers a vivid picture of life behind the curtain at Shakespeare's theater. Illustrations.

Author : John Haskell
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555979799

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The Complete Ballet by John Haskell Pdf

A dark-hued, hybrid novel by a writer who “delivers our culture back to us, made entirely new” (A. M. Homes) In The Complete Ballet, John Haskell choreographs an intricate and irresistible pas de deux in which fiction and criticism come together to create a new kind of story. Fueled by the dramatic retelling of five romantic ballets, and interwoven with a contemporary story about a man whose daunting gambling debt pushes him to the edge of his own abyss, it is both a pulpy entertainment and a meditation on the physicality—and psychology—of dance. The unnamed narrator finds himself inexorably drawn back to the pre–cell phone world of Technicolor Los Angeles, to a time when the tragedies of his life were about to collide. Working as a part-time masseur in Hollywood, he attends an underground poker game with his friend Cosmo, a strip-club entrepreneur. What happens there hurtles the narrator down the road and into the room where the novel’s violent and surreal showdown leaves him a different person. As the narrator revisits his past, he simultaneously inhabits and reconstructs the mythic stories of ballet, assessing along the way the lives and obsessions of Nijinsky and Balanchine, Pavlova and Fonteyn, Joseph Cornell and the story’s presiding spirit, the film director John Cassavetes. This compulsively readable fiction is ultimately a profound and haunting consideration of the nature of art and identity.

Author : Caridad Svich
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : LITERARY COLLECTIONS
ISBN : 9781559365116

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Innovation in Five Acts by Caridad Svich Pdf

Theatre leaders and creators weigh in on theatrical innovation in this exciting collection of essays. Curated and edited by playwright Caridad Svich, the essays in this collection reflect the creative challenges and triumphs of playwrights, directors, performers, teachers, dramaturgs, artistic directors and founders.

Author : Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822226677

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Bob by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Pdf

THE STORY: BOB chronicles the highly unusual life of Bob and his lifelong quest to become a Great Man. Born and abandoned in the bathroom of a fast food restaurant, Bob energetically embarks on an epic journey across America and encounters inspir

Author : Una LaMarche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606773

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Five Summers by Una LaMarche Pdf

Bittersweet, funny, and achingly honest, Five Summers is a story of friendship, love, and growing up that is perfect for fans of Ann Brashares' The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Judy Blume's Summer Sisters. Four best friends, five summers of camp memories Emma, Skylar, Jo, and Maddie have all come back to camp for a weekend of tipsy canoe trips to the island, midnight skinny dipping in the lake, and an epic game of capture the flag—boys versus girls. But the weekend isn't quite as sunwashed as they'd imagined as the memories come flooding back. . . . The summer we were nine: Emma was branded “Skylar’s friend Emma” by the infamous Adam Loring . . . The summer we were ten: Maddie realized she was too far into her lies to think about telling the truth . . . The summer we were eleven: Johanna totally freaked out during her first game of Spin the Bottle . . . The summer we were twelve: Skylar’s love letters from her boyfriend back home were exciting to all of us—except Skylar . . . Our last summer together: Emma and Adam almost kissed. Jo found out Maddie’s secret. Skylar did something unthinkable . . . and whether we knew it then or not, five summers of friendship began to fall apart. A young adult book with a friendship story that will last long after the last s'more is gone.

Author : Philippe Quinault
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781434457844

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Atys by Philippe Quinault Pdf

In this play based on Greek mythology, Atys hides his love for the nymph Sangride under a mask of indifference. But the nymph actually dotes on Atys, and tells him so. Atys allows his feelings to override common sense, and seeks the help of the goddess Cybele to assist the lovers, unaware that the goddess also loves him. The result is a classic Greek tragedy.

Author : Gary Chapman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781575678856

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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman Pdf

Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse's primary love language-quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called A Love Language Minute that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program Building Relationships with Gary Chapman, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. The Five Love Languages is a consistent New York Times bestseller - with over 5 million copies sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running!

Author : Astrid Varnay
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555534554

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Fifty-five Years in Five Acts by Astrid Varnay Pdf

One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.

Author : Amanda Stone
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0976498111

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Raging Silence by Amanda Stone Pdf

Sheltered from the political unrest over Vietnam, Melena Dupree dreams of two things: a family and an envy-worthy home. Her husband, Ernest, plans an empire manned by his sons. Shadows and lies bring on a slow-moving rot that threatens the survival of the well-intentioned family. Destined to struggle through darkness, will Melena's darling baby girl destroy their foundation of lies?

Author : Una LaMarche
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606780

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Like No Other by Una LaMarche Pdf

“One of the most poignant and star-crossed love stories since The Fault in Our Stars.” —Entertainment Weekly Fitting seamlessly alongside current bestsellers like Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, and John Green's Paper Towns, LIKE NO OTHER provides a thoroughly modern take on romance that will inspire laughter, tears, and the belief that love can happen when you least expect it. Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart? Devorah is a consummate good girl who has never challenged the ways of her strict Hasidic upbringing. Jaxon is a fun-loving, book-smart nerd who has never been comfortable around girls (unless you count his four younger sisters). They've spent their entire lives in Brooklyn, on opposite sides of the same street. Their paths never crossed . . . until one day, they did. When a hurricane strikes the Northeast, the pair becomes stranded in an elevator together, where fate leaves them no choice but to make an otherwise risky connection. Though their relation is strictly forbidden, Devorah and Jax arrange secret meetings and risk everything to be together. But how far can they go? Just how much are they willing to give up?