If you’ve seen Wes Anderson’s new super-meta comedy The Grand Budapest Hotel, you know that, in typical Anderson style, it involves several layers of a narrative onion, which the writer/director peels back perhaps more efficiently than ever before. (If you haven’t seen the movie, I promise you this ruins nothing.) In it, Jude Law plays […]

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday
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BN ID: | 2940012993946 |
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Publisher: | Plunkett Lake Press |
Publication date: | 09/04/2011 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Sales rank: | 143,353 |
File size: | 12 MB |
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