Shannon is clearly a very imaginative author, and this novel bursts with vivid scenery and inventions.
This turns into an opportunity for the imaginative author to address scholarly debates and literatures central to many different fields from Russian and East European history to American foreign policy and make the story of this small Balkan country relevant to the concerns of numerous readerships.
But for Shepard aficionados, "Heartless" offers a fascinating focus on a figure that this restlessly imaginative author — in contrast to other great American playwrights, like Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill — usually doesn't pay much attention to: good old long-suffering, child-shaping, hearth-keeping Mom.
FOR years a few imaginative authors have argued, based on 16th century maps, that the ice-covered continent of Antarctica was discovered and mapped by an ancient civilization, perhaps one from another planet.
More importantly, it is a film with a palpably beating heart, a companion piece to the female-driven fairytale of Pan's Labyrinth in which the child Ofelia becomes the woman Edith, imaginative author of her own destiny, potential creator of all she surveys, one foot in this world, the other in the next.
As imaginative author Terence McKenna once said, "This is what virtual reality holds out to us — the possibility of walking into the constructs of the imagination".
It is a genre of infinite scenarios being played out by imaginative authors for all ages and genders.
If so, then follow your trusted EB guide through the alternate universes created by some of the world's most imaginative authors in this list of fantastical worlds.
In a stricter sense, however, the term saga is confined to legendary and historical fictions in which the author has attempted an imaginative reconstruction of the past and organized the subject matter according to certain aesthetic principles.
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) was an imaginative stream-of-consciousness film dealing with the painful childhood memories of the Polish author Bruno Schulz.
