Top 20 fiction books of 2016 so far amy parker medium. The book is a worthy love letter to the late 1980s and the people affected and blessed by the times. When he arrives in new york everything change for him but also for his father. Aug 14, 2015 in the first scene, a young boy named jude hangs out with his wildchild father, les ethan hawke in the makeshift greenhouse in their vermont backyard. Buy a cheap copy of ten thousand saints book by eleanor henderson. The film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 23, 2015. The script sometimes borders on the tooliterary and symbolic judes name, first of all, and the book of jude quoted at teddys funeral, but the acting is so solid, so fascinating to watch behaviorally, that its not an issue. Jude 14,15 jesus returns with ten thousand of his saints. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Aug 15, 2015 with a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s new york to help raise the unborn child of teenager.
Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this ten thousand saints study guide and get instant access to the following chapter summaries. But the owner of the umbrella, a girl around the boys age, peers down and sees. Everything you need to know about ten thousand saints. Not sure why i liked it so much, and i certainly dont really care about the answer, but i do want to find out more about someone who would ask that question. In the meantime, ten thousand saints works as an acceptable vessel to the remarkable past with an honest meditation on what a family represents in todays day and age. Ten thousand saints is based on a novel which i read about half of. Now offering a 50% discount for students and teachers during the evolving covid19 crisis. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback barnes. In my opinion, the best films use highly specific settings to tell stories with universal appeal. Ten thousand saints has a rich, textured look, with a tendency toward the dour and desaturated in its cinematography, which fits the milieu of angsty 80s teens in the city.
Ten thousand saints pulsates with fullblooded supporting characters who create a tragicabsurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the ronald reagan years, from depressed new england to volatile. The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. I would say that from what i read of the book that the movie was fairly loyal to the source material but much like the book it was just sort of uninteresting. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder. 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. Leila moore, our friend of the week, and gina pell our resident bookworm and content chief have combined their top ten lists to create the top 20 fiction books of 2016 so far. The book traces the effects of teddys death on a handful of intertwined people, skittering. The east village of manhattan was home to a huge punk rock movement in the 1980s, and the new drama film ten thousand saints pays tribute to this. Seriously, i felt a lot better about jude when about halfway through ten thousand saints he cuts that lock of hair off and has pretty much a normal haircut. Ten thousand is the number of gods saints redeemed from the flesh. Aug, 2015 all 32 songs from the 10,000 saints 2015 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Ten thousand saints 2015 a teen asa butterfield, a pregnant girl hailee steinfeld and the lead singer emile hirsch of a punkrock band form their own surrogate family in late1980s new york. Released by nettwerk america in 2015 containing music from ten thousand saints 2015.
Gods judgment on the ungodly they are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame. Eleanor henderson is in possession of an enormous talent whic. The film stars asa butterfield as jude keffyhorn, the protagonist of the story. The story is structured along geographical themes with four major divisions. Feb 23, 2014 this is the trailer for the book ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, not the movie we do not own this video. The ten thousand is a grimdark fantasy penned by paul kearney. 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.
A comingofage story whose growing pains are divided among not just adolescents but presumed adults, shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten. Eleanor henderson was born in greece, grew up in florida, and attended middlebury college and the university of virginia. Jan 24, 2015 a coming of age story whose growing pains are divided among not just adolescents but presumed adults, shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten thousand saints offers both a premise and a. Eleanor hendersons ten thousand saints hooked me from the first line. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading their lines off to the sides of the set. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading. Eleanor hendersons fierce, elegiac novel follows a group of friends, lovers, parents and children through the straightedge music scene and. The books territory the mid80s hardcore and straight. Now offering a 50 % discount for students and teachers during the evolving covid19 crisis. Released august 14th, 2015, ten thousand saints stars asabutterfield, haileesteinfeld, ethanhawke, emilehirsch the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 46 min, and received a score of 62 out of. This is the trailer for the book ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, not the movie we do not own this video. Asa butterfield navigates the 1980s new york punk scene. A meditation on memory, loss, free will and necessity, kings novel sends a teacher back to 1958 by way of a time portal in a maine diner.
Aug, 2015 seriously, i felt a lot better about jude when about halfway through ten thousand saints he cuts that lock of hair off and has pretty much a normal haircut. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so. Four years later, the book has been adapted into a movie and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. Jan 24, 2015 ten thousand saints has a rich, textured look, with a tendency toward the dour and desaturated in its cinematography, which fits the milieu of angsty 80s teens in the city.
Parents need to know that ten thousand saints is an edgy drama about two teens in a tough situation, set in 1980s new york. Is the book of enoch something of god, or is it a book of false doctrine that christians should stay away from. Asa butterfield, aloft, plays a troubled vermont teenager who moves to new york to live with his estranged. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers.
Ten thousand saints soundtrack from 2015, composed by garth stevenson. It is based on the novel of the same name by eleanor henderson. An associate professor at ithaca college, she lives in ithaca. The book of enochknowing the end at the beginning the word of the blessing of enoch, with which he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed concerning the elect i said, as i began my story concerning them. Dec 03, 2015 ten thousand saints soundtrack from 2015, composed by garth stevenson. It is quite natural, then, to understand that the term saints holy ones in jude 14 refers to the holy angels of god. The movies script, adapting eleanor hendersons novel, contrasts. The story is a rich tapestry of family life against the exotic, tropical background of the molucca islands of indonesia. Behold, the lord is coming with myriads of his holy ones 15 to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and. Aug 14, 2015 ten thousand saints is a drama movie which takes place in 1980s and shows a boy who is living with his mother in vermont and moves to new york city to live with his father.
Ic profs ten thousand saints made into film ithaca journal. I enjoyed tenthousand saints and i found it hard to put down once i started reading it. Aug 14, 2015 in my opinion, the best films use highly specific settings to tell stories with universal appeal. Asa butterfield navigates the 1980s new york punk scene in. I believe from the book of mormon musical on the 65th tony awards. Where can you get the ten thousand saints soundtrack. Perhaps as a novel these different plot strands could cohere into a satisfying whole, but on screen they feel malnourished and underdeveloped. While i dont use it to determine doctrine, i find it interesting and worth looking at in comparing to the foundation of scripture from the accepted canon of books. They smoke pot and take plenty of other drugs including cocaine and inhalants.
Ann kopitzke the conclusion i drew at the end of the books was the judes unnamed wife was eliza. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. While he may have missed out on spiderman, asa butterfield is sure to continue his ascension from child actor into a burgeoning young talent. All 32 songs from the 10,000 saints 2015 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. A comingofage story about three teenagers in late 1980s new york cityjude asa butterfield, new to the city from vermont, straigh.
Ten thousand saints is a drama movie which takes place in 1980s and shows a boy who is living with his mother in vermont and moves to new york city to live with his father. Eleanor henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. With a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s. 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. The story is kind of flat and its hard to get engaged. To ask other readers questions about ten thousand saints, please sign up. 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. In ten thousand saints eleanor henderson has written the quintessential novel of new york citys east village in the late 1980s. I found myself caring for the characters, even the idiot adults.
With empathy and masterful skill, eleanor henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern. Ten thousand saints is a film adapted from novel ten thousand saints book works eleanor henderson. A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during. As further evidence to this conclusion, let us observe that jude 14 states. Numbers in scripture ten completeness of the flesh. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads. The tribulation is from feast of trumpets 2023 to tisha bav 2030. Ten thousand saints on dvd october 6, 2015 starring hailee steinfeld, ethan hawke, asa butterfield, emile hirsch.
Inspired by the historical journey of ten thousand greek warriors in the persian empire circa 401 bc, this tale is a gritty, bloody, and brutal look at the realities of ancient war especially civil war and its undeniable horrors. Ten thousand saints, a coming of age in the east village, circa 1980s. In ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel, the ghosts of st. Les is in the greenhouse, but also in the doghouse with his wife, and he opens up to his child son about it, all while lighting up a joint. In the case of the movie ten thousand saints, that setting is new york city in the late 80s. With food and a bed supplied by his dad, jude takes to the area immediately. Now she sent and summoned barak the son of abinoam from kedeshnaphtali, and said to him, behold, the lord, the god of israel, has commanded, go and march to mount tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of naphtali and from the sons of zebulun. Ten thousand saints sheila omalley august 14, 2015.
Ten thousand saints 2015stream and watch online moviefone. The first 50 pages of ten thousand saints, which chronicle a single night. Its a shame about this book, because its obvious why the. Illustrious farr and wide, but by his own first seen, them unexpected joy. Everything you need to know about ten thousand saints movie. Aug 17, 2015 in the meantime, ten thousand saints works as an acceptable vessel to the remarkable past with an honest meditation on what a family represents in todays day and age.