Joyce Maynard's Books
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The Cloud ChamberWhen Nate Chance arrives home from school, he sees two police cars and an ambulance in his yard. Before his mother can get him and his little sister,...Read More
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Rope of Silicon, March 28, 2013
...his Thank You For Smoking screenplay before that... both of which were adaptations. Labor Day is based on Joyce Maynard's novel of the same name and we'll see if he can wow us once again with this coming-of-age story. 5.) Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy...
Globe and Mail, March 1, 2013
...Jason Reitman directs, with Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Tobey Maguire in an adaptation of the novel by Joyce Maynard, about an agoraphobic mother and her son, who take home an escaped criminal. Why it’s a contender: Reitman’s already racked up four...
Individual.com, February 27, 2013
...need of help. They bring him home and ... it gets complicated from there. Reitman adapted the story from Joyce Maynard's poignant, coming-of-age novel. "August: Osage County" (Fall): Director, John Wells; cast, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Juliette...
Indiewire, February 26, 2013
...best film). But we'd be surprised if the same happened with "Labor Day," his adaptation of Joyce Maynard's acclaimed novel. The coming-of-age tale follows Henry (newcomer Gattlin Griffith, with Tobey Maguire subbing in as his older self), whose ordinary...
The Atlantic Wire, January 29, 2013
...The word " recluse " precedes the name of late author J.D. Salinger so often, you'd think it was his official title. " Hermit " is another popular descriptor for the intensely private creator of The Catcher in the Rye 's Holden Caulfield. Some writers...
The Week Magazine, January 13, 2013
...daughter is caught steaming up a car's windows with a high school teacher. The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard (St. Martin's, $16). Maynard beautifully illuminates the resilience of children in this 2004 novel about a 13-year-old girl whose mother dies on...
Bohemian, November 28, 2012
...with ‘Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight Up.’ In a celebration of the book’s release, contributors Joyce Maynard and Pam Houston share their drinking tales on Sunday, Dec. 2, at Book Passage. 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera....
Metacritic, January 17, 2013
...Paramount | date tbd Reitman's fifth film (following 2011's somewhat under-the-radar Young Adult) is based on Joyce Maynard's novel of the same name. Set during a Labor Day weekend in the 1980s, the drama follows a single mom (Kate Winslet) and her...
The Week Magazine, January 13, 2013
...daughter is caught steaming up a car's windows with a high school teacher. The Usual Rules by Joyce Maynard (St. Martin's, $16). Maynard beautifully illuminates the resilience of children in this 2004 novel about a 13-year-old girl whose mother dies on...
IBerkshires.com, December 31, 2012
...19 great-great-grandchildren; three great-great-great-grandchildren and a foster son, Peter Keating. She was predeceased by her children Robert Maynard, Joyce Maynard and Ellen Maynard and three who died in infancy. She was also predeceased by four...
Boston Globe, December 30, 2012
...I’m excited.” “Labor Day” is based on the novel of the same name by New England author Joyce Maynard . .� .� . In other local movie news, “The Way, Way Back” — the film starring Steve Carell and Toni Collette that filmed south of Boston...
Boston Globe, December 28, 2012
...in which she stars with Cheryl Hines and New Hampshire’s Wilson Bethel (son of New England writer Joyce Maynard). Witt says she and Folds will probably play their “Pasadena” song during Monday night’s show. She said she didn’t quite believe...
McAllen Monitor, December 25, 2012
...effort to stay positive, it’s easy to get discouraged. But children can get discouraged, too, as best-selling novelist Joyce Maynard points out in a December article in Good Housekeeping magazine. When Maynard’s son entered sixth grade,...
Acton Patch, December 21, 2012
...Center is going to be use for some scenes . The movie is based on the 2009 book by Joyce Maynard, "Labor Day." Click here to read the plot . For more on this story, click here...
