Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
46
result(s) for
"Recreation centers Fiction."
Sort by:
Rocking out!
\"When Frannie's local community center, The Ark, announces it is going out of business, Frannie and the community join together to create a fundraising concert. Frannie and her friends write letters to rockstar Aimee Chapman asking her to perform at the concert and she says yes! Frannie and her friends learn all about the perks of being a rockstar and, of course, Frannie decides rock star is perfect for a career. After all, a green room is actually an office for rock stars!\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Three Layers of Metaphors in Ross Macdonald’s \Black Money\
In his early career, Kenneth Millar, better known as Ross Macdonald, emulated the style of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. By the 1960s he had established himself as a distinct voice in the hardboiled genre. In his Lew Archer series, he conveys the complexity of his characters and settings primarily by the use of metaphors. In his 1966 novel \"Black Money\" the device performs three functions. In the case of minor characters, the author uses metaphors to comment on Californian society. Concurrently, metaphors describing major characters allow him to develop their dramatic arcs, whereas the recurring elements of the leitmotif serve to demonstrate the narrating detective’s growing concerns with the ongoing investigation. Arguably, it was Macdonald’s use of metaphors that helped define his unique voice.
Journal Article
Chicago Tribune Nina Metz column
[...]you don't hear any sort of accents, really, unless the setting specifically demands it (the small-town Kentucky environs of FX's \"Justified\" ditto for the Georgia-based Sundance series \"Rectified.\")
Newsletter