Through their stories and interactions Waldman builds a tale of complexity and tension.
He didn't survive, not really, but he did live and slowly came to thrive, and on that tangled paradox Amy Ellis Nutt builds a tale.
F. W. Murnau's 1924 silent film "The Last Laugh," about the agony of an aging hotel doorman demoted to bathroom attendant, is the basis for the Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's 2010 "A Screaming Man" (Amazon), which builds a tale of a mighty political and historical span from the troubles of Adam (Youssouf Djaoro), a pool attendant at a hotel in N'Djamena.
In his latest, most successful novel, "Satanás," or "Satan," Mr. Mendoza builds a tale of three urban dwellers who meet, with devastating consequences, in a restaurant in Bogotá on a day when a troubled war veteran enters to shoot down its occupants.
There are no words, just pictures, so it's easy for younger kids to build a story around the poignant tale of a dog who builds a robot and then loses him on the beach.
The concert was a tribute to the success of Peter's Frampton Comes Alive album, so the promoter Bill Graham had built a huge fairy tale castle on top of this massive stadium stage.
Since he emerged from Southern California drag racing culture and first supplied two 1948 Chevy hot rods and his expertise at racing them for the 1958 movie "High School Confidential!," Mr. Barris has built a collection of tales that has come to rival his collection of cars.
Pears builds a multilayered tale of moral choice, love, danger and loss.
In our homes there needs to be a commercial need to build a fairy tale world of taking mirrors, singing kettles and sassy chatty wardrobes, and a wish from consumers to live in it.
With help from Elizabeth's own account in "The Female Captive", a book she wrote about her time at the Muslim court, Ms Colley builds a breathtaking tale of her escape, virtue intact.
It builds a supernatural tale out of one of the more grisly events from the American West the Donner Party, that ill-fated pioneer caravan that spent a hellacious (and ultimately cannibalistic) winter snowbound and starving in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
