Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson off the shelf. Feb 28, 20 ten thousand saints starts with new years eve in 1987. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson fictiondb.
As wild as that may sound, wonder of wonders, the book is also carefully and lovingly created. Published june 7th 2011 by harpercollins ebooks first published june 1st 2011. The film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 23, 2015. That might be the subtext of the lovely exchange that opens the book. Jul 03, 2011 ten thousand saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel a planet, a universe, a trip.
Saints is a term describing the cortege that will accompany christ when he returns. Readers of books like the goldfinch and freedom will certainly appreciate this very intricately and. And there are other dropped threads, like judes fas, which dont ever. Jan 16, 2017 please explain the words of enoch in jude 14, enoch also, the seventh from adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. It was men like that enoch seventh descendant from adam prophesied about when he said. I could picture the graffiti, the zines, the people on the streets, the city in all its grimy glory.
Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. Jun 19, 2011 the ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. Aug 15, 2015 like emily mortimer and ethan are really good friends, and juliannes husband was in emilys show. To ask other readers questions about ten thousand saints, please sign up. The film stars asa butterfield as jude keffyhorn, the protagonist of the story. Buy a cheap copy of ten thousand saints book by eleanor henderson. Aug 14, 2015 directed by shari springer berman, robert pulcini. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app.
With ethan hawke, asa butterfield, hailee steinfeld, emily mortimer. Ten thousand saints is set primarily during the youth crew era, a resurgence of a culture that first hit the scene in the 70s. Like all good nostalgia novels, ten thousand saints is a love letter to a bygone time, and makes even a reader who never experienced it in the first place ache to be a part of it. The ten thousand represents harold coyle at his visionary and apocalyptic.
Aug, 2015 all 32 songs from 10,000 saints 2015, with scene descriptions. May 14, 2015 ten thousand saints, by eleanor henderson adapted into a film starring hailee steinfeld and ethan hawke scheduled for release this year, hendersons novel gives us a glimpse of an east village that no longer exists. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Ten thousand saints opens with the death of 15yearold teddy on new. For a movie with extremely loud punkrock music at its core, ten thousand saints is a pleasantly lowkey experience. Ten thousand saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel a planet, a universe, a trip. Ann patchett, author of commonwealth i loved ten thousand saints. The little book of feminist saints random house books. Jude and teddy are teenagers celebrating the coming new year with some others, but unfortunately after a night of partying and drug taking, one of them doesnt live to see 1988. It is based on the novel of the same name by eleanor henderson. Great american literature is chockfull of seemingly inessential characters like jude, with nick carraways standing in the shadows cast by jay. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor henderson s debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful.
Eleanor henderson, author of ten thousand saints proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder. Harold coyle has established himself as one of americas finest suspense novelists. With four consecutive new york times bestselling novels of epic war, team yankee, sword point, bright star, and trial by fire, he is a master of the supercharged merging of global conflicts, strategy, politics, and probable world events. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. In ten thousand saints eleanor henderson has written the quintessential novel of new york citys east village in the late 1980s. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. Ten thousand saints portrays the chaos of the postnuclear family in the hands of former hippies, but henderson never judges her characters, and rarely sentimentalises them. Sep 20, 2017 like all good nostalgia novels, ten thousand saints is a love letter to a bygone time, and makes even a reader who never experienced it in the first place ache to be a part of it.
Bookbrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfictionbooks that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and. Charles yu, author of how to live safely in a science fictional universe. Like emily mortimer and ethan are really good friends, and juliannes husband was in emilys show. The film stars asa butterfield as jude keffyhorn, the protagonist of the story the film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 23, 2015 the film was released in a limited release and through. Goodreads members who liked ten thousand saints also liked. Julia pierpont is the author of the new york times bestseller among the ten thousand things, winner of the prix fitzgerald in france. I remember this manhattan, the sunday matinees at cbs, the rage over yuppies colonizing the east village. Behold, the lord comes with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have. After meeting his estranged dad, johnny feels a false rush of assurance, like a son, as though he had a mother and a. Ten thousand saints eleanor henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut. If you like ten thousand saints you might like similar movies rudderless, like sunday, like rain, a brilliant young mind, the road within, before i disappear.
Saints comes to feel like a modern, drugandrockriddled version of peter pan. Jun 26, 2011 ten thousand saintsby eleanor hendersonecco. By his own estimation, jude keffyhorn, the skateboarding teen drug abuser turned cleanliving proselytizer in eleanor hendersons first novel, ten thousand saints, is an inessential. An associate professor at ithaca college, she lives. An associate professor at ithaca college, she lives in ithaca. Charles yu, author of how to live safely in a science fictional.
Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads. Her debut novel, ten thousand saints, was named one of the 10 best books of. Recorded books, llc harpercollins firm sometimes too much of a good thing is just not enough. Please explain the words of enoch in jude 14, enoch also, the seventh from adam, prophesied of these, saying, behold the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. She earned an mfa degree from the university of virginia in 2005. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback barnes. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson booksamillion. Ten thousand saints, by eleanor henderson adapted into a film starring hailee steinfeld and ethan hawke scheduled for release this year, hendersons novel gives us a glimpse of an east village that no longer exists. The clubs in new york city, the legendary club cbgb was a mecca. Ten thousand saints starts with new years eve in 1987. Find books like ten thousand saints from the worlds largest community of readers. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so.
Ten thousand saints trailer hd asa butterfield, hailee. Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal jude keffyhorn spends much of his youth getting high with his best friend, teddy, in their bucolic and deeply numbing vermont town. Eleanor henderson was born in greece, grew up in florida, and attended middlebury college and the university of virginia. In eleanor hendersons proudly unsentimental debut novel, a teenager who ods on new years eve unknowingly pulls together the friends and family he left behind. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Listen to the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Ten thousand saints is easy to admire for its close observation and the energy of its prose, but the novels tone grows uncomfortably manic in its closing chapters. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder a sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during the late 1980s, ten thousand saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable. Premillennialists assert that this statement refers to the return of the righteous to the earth at the end of the socalled rapture period. She is a graduate of barnard college and the mfa program at new york university. Marks are brought back to lifehendersons book reads in part like an elegy. The edge of seventeen red band trailer 2016 hailee steinfeld, woody harrelson comedy movie hd duration.
Ten thousand saints threatens to get cluttered at times, but henderson reins in her sprawling cast with a series of contrasts and a neighborhood as a supporting player. I think a lot of the kids involved in the scene felt adrift and like they needed to make their own family, and also saw the. This is a story of a group of teenagers struggling to come to terms with the death of a friend. The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. She truly has breathed life into the east villages recent storied past, and has transformed that neighborhood into a character as vividly realized as her novels people. In nearly 400 pages, henderson does not hold back once.
Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback. A novel and millions of other books are available for instant access. Ten thousand saints, a coming of age in the east village, circa 1980s asa butterfield, aloft, plays a troubled vermont teenager who moves to new york to live with his estranged. An associate professor at ithaca college, she lives in ithaca, new york, with her husband and two sons. Jun 26, 2011 by his own estimation, jude keffyhorn, the skateboarding teen drug abuser turned cleanliving proselytizer in eleanor hendersons first novel, ten thousand saints, is an inessential. Jude asa butterfield is a teenage boy who is trying to reconnect with his father les ethan hawke in 1987 manhattan. Moving back and forth between vermont and new york city, ten thousand saints is an emphatically observed story of a frayed tangle of family members brought painfully together by a death, then carried along in anticipation of a new and unexpected life.
In ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel, the ghosts of st. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wondera sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york. In saints, a straightedge coming of age set in the late 1980s, eleanor hendersons bittersweet ten thousand saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing manhattan. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. Jun 29, 2015 the edge of seventeen red band trailer 2016 hailee steinfeld, woody harrelson comedy movie hd duration. Jun 01, 2011 ten thousand saints is a coming of age story thats close enough to a visit from the goon squad but not as amazingly brilliant and a tiny bit like freedom but luckily devoid of franzens annoying selfimportance. With empathy and masterful skill, eleanor henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern age and the struggles that unite and divide generations.
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