Life of Pi

...moved here temporarily from Hawaii. Though the president reads aloud with his children in the evenings - he and Sasha are finishing Life of Pi - parenting in the White House is more complicated. Because the first couple cannot move...

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...thinking I'd fly right through it, but I'm only about 500 pages in! I finally picked up "Once a Runner" by John L. Parker Jr. Also, "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Being a Children's Lit. professor, I read A LOT of young adult novels, I...

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...the knotty subjects that other directors might shy away from. Right now, he's working on bringing Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel Life of Pi to screen. It's a book many have said is unfilmable. "I think it's workable," he says...

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...50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts, which helped launch his own literary career. (He is best known as the author of Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2002.) On that day, as Mr. Martel and 49 other artists stood...

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Our literary insider gets the gossip on Aravind Adiga and next year's literary heavyweights, including Ian McEwan and Life of Pi author Yann Martel * The rumour that David Godwin, Aravind Adiga's agent, had offered the Booker winner's new...

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...more than AGBP170,000 due to the collapse of Woolworths a previously counted its biggest success as the Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi. It is preparing for further success towards the end of this year with releases including The...

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...adaptation of Life of Pi, and Martel said he has "faith" in the project. "I'm just trusting that they'll pull it off," he said, and added that he envisions the character Pi Patel will be played by "some young, unknown Indian actor."

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Life of Pi is about a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger Author Yann Martel is to follow his Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi with another story focusing on animals. Beatrice And Virgil, a literary allegory for the...

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Director Ang Lee is adapting the book Life of Pi into a feature length film. Speaking recently withA Digital Spy, Lee mentioned that heaEUR™s recently turned in his first draft of the script, and that we can probably expect it in two...

In this article: Ang Lee, Orangutan, Bengal tiger, Digital Spy, Yann Martel, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet

...a tiger tame enough to employ for such a role. I wonder if the tiger from "The Hangover" is available. Any fans of the novel think "Life of Pi" could work as a movie? Are you hopeful that Ang Lee will do a good job bringing the source...

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