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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled The Diviners about York, State, Award with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States.
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conversations.value: the author (born Hiram Frederick the author, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. His first novel Garden State (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. His memoir The Black Veil (2002) won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Paris Review, Harper's, Details, the New York Times, and Grand Street. He grew up in several of the Connecticut suburbs where he later set stories and novels, including Darien and New Canaan. Paul's School in New Hampshire, Brown University, received a master's degree in fine art from Columbia University and has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase and Bennington College. According to The Writer's Almanac, the author dropped out of graduate school at Columbia after a year because he spent most of his time drinking and had a hard time paying his rent or holding a job. the author stated, "I was a clerk at [a bookstore] and I got fired after one month. They said, 'We really like you and we respect you as a writer, but this cash register thing is just not working out.'" the author finally checked himself into a mental hospital, got sober, and then he wrote his first novel, Garden State, about young people growing up in the industrial wasteland of New Jersey. He lives in Brooklyn and Fishers Island.
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conversations.value: the author (born Hiram Frederick the author, III on October 18, 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for The Ice Storm (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973. His first novel Garden State (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. His memoir The Black Veil (2002) won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. He has also received the Addison Metcalf Award, the Paris Review Aga Khan Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, the Paris Review, Harper's, Details, the New York Times, and Grand Street. He grew up in several of the Connecticut suburbs where he later set stories and novels, including Darien and New Canaan. He graduated from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, Brown University, received a master's degree in fine art from Columbia University and has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase and Bennington College. According to The Writer's Almanac, the author dropped out of graduate school at Columbia after a year because he spent most of his time drinking and had a hard time paying his rent or holding a job. the author stated, "I was a clerk at [a bookstore] and I got fired after one month. They said, 'We really like you and we respect you as a writer, but this cash register thing is just not working out. '" the author finally checked himself into a mental hospital, got sober, and then he wrote his first novel, Garden State, about young people growing up in the industrial wasteland of New Jersey. He lives in Brooklyn and Fishers Island.
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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Naughty, John, Library with the genre: Teen & Young Adult, Historical Fiction?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Diviners'
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about York, State, Award with the genre: Literature & Fiction, United States.
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conversations.value: The Diviners (film): The storyline follows Morag Gunn from her tough childhood in Manitoba, Canada to middle-age adult life.\nA key theme of the movie is Morag\'s search for love.\nThe story also introduces unique characters from the Manawaka series.\nThe film provides a glimpse into many ways that society creates outcasts socially.\nThe film also explores mythology, as illustrated by Christie\'s Scottish Piper Gunn, Métis hero Jules Tonnerre, Morag\'s novel and songs by Skinner and Piquette.\nAs Margaret Laurence\'s crowning achievement, The Diviners shows that truth and love can be "divined" in many ways.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled The Diviners.. Start with the sentence 'The Diviners (Bray novel): Evie O'Neill, a young girl in the 1920s, is sent to live with her uncle after another in a series of disastrous events in her hometown'.
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conversations.value: The Diviners (Bray novel): Evie O'Neill, a young girl in the 1920s, is sent to live with her uncle after another in a series of disastrous events in her hometown.\nAt the same time, an ouija board has awakened the spirit by the name of Naughty John.\nAfter hearing of numerous mysterious murders she uses her powers of object reading with the help of her uncle to defeat the spirit serial killer.\nAlong the way, she discovers more people of her kind with supernatural abilities and they unearth mysteries that deepen their suspicions towards a bigger plan behind the murders.\nThe sequel 'Lair of Dreams' picks up the pace, reveals more about characters central to the plot, and opens doors to new horrors.\nThe third book is yet to be announced.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about Naughty, John, Library.
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conversations.value: The Diviners (Bray novel): Evie O'Neill, a young girl in the 1920s, is sent to live with her uncle after another in a series of disastrous events in her hometown.\nAt the same time, an ouija board has awakened the spirit by the name of Naughty John.\nAfter hearing of numerous mysterious murders she uses her powers of object reading with the help of her uncle to defeat the spirit serial killer.\nAlong the way, she discovers more people of her kind with supernatural abilities and they unearth mysteries that deepen their suspicions towards a bigger plan behind the murders.\nThe sequel 'Lair of Dreams' picks up the pace, reveals more about characters central to the plot, and opens doors to new horrors.\nThe third book is yet to be announced.