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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A total must-read' The Times 'Totally absorbing and beautifully written' The Bookseller 19. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. I used to think you were a good-for-nothing book reader, he said. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. SMALL STEPS is a contemporary young adult novel from Louis Sachar, the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Awardwinning smash hit phenomenon. 9781408865231 Holes 19.9900 NZD InStock /shop/books /shop/books/teen-young-adult/fiction/general /shop/books/teen-young-adult/fiction /shop/books/teen-young-adult /shop/collections/favourites-upper-middle-teen-and-ya-ranges /shop/collections/favourites-sub-categories/favourites-kids-books /shop/collections/favourites-2022/childrens /shop/books/favourites /shop/collections/favourites-2022/upper-middle This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanley's desert prison burning off the page. The lake was so full of holes and mounds that it reminded Stanley of pictures hed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like many edgy postmodern works, Wolfe’s book is rooted in history and reality. ‘Vanities’, that is, as the empty mirage/s of life the Old Testament ‘Preacher’ denounces at the start of Ecclesiastes (Hebrew: Kohelet): ‘Vanity, all is vanity’ (1.2), a futile vapor without substance or meaning. It is a tough study of what it means for the three main characters – WASP bond trader Sherman McCoy, Jewish Assistant District Attorney Larry Kramer, and the expatriate British journalist Peter Fallow – to be consumed by the modern ‘vanities’ of ambition, class, greed, politics and race. Wolfe’s (originally serialized) novel is set in 1980s New York City. It’s sad – at times, embarrassing – when what is meant as a celebration becomes the opposite a portrait rejected by the sitter, a meal for friends under-cooked, a Christmas gift despised, a good book spoiled by a poor film. ![]() But can we – or, better, should we – read more in the public’s reaction? I suggest we might. Images can be a poor substitute for imagination. ![]() It’s not the first time – and will certainly not be the last – a good book has made a bad film. ![]() Despite its best-selling literary source, satirical humour, and star-studded cast (including Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall and Morgan Freeman), the film was a commercial flop, grossing $15m. 1940) film adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987). When it was released in 1990, critics panned Brian de Palma’s (b. ![]() |