But Scott Crocker has turned a bird-watching tale into a multilayered story that will fascinate practically everybody in "Ghost Bird," a witty, wistful documentary about the supposed rediscovery in Arkansas of the ivory-billed woodpecker, a bird thought to have been extinct for decades.
In the end, though, we gave the second prize to Of Ice and Men, a multilayered tale of global warming that comes with a ghastly (and topical) twist – the work of "Doulos Nezblanc", better known as David Ross, a Zimbabwean-born former lawyer who now works in a London cinema.
By dissecting each of those elements in turn, Carrier's multilayered tale is, in equal parts, an unfolding detective story whose protagonist is a storm that defies reliable forecasting, and a behind-the-scenes exposé.
Pears builds a multilayered tale of moral choice, love, danger and loss.
Patrick Flanery's first novel, "Absolution" (2012), was a beautiful book of secrets, a multilayered tale of post-apartheid South Africa.
The book is a multilayered tale of the various inhabitants of an apartment building in Aswany's beloved Downtown.
How else can one fit such a sprawling, multilayered tale into a heroic narrative film, let alone a boxed set?
With The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997), a restrained, multilayered tale of a man who has, or has not, had sex with the woman of the title, but uses his imagination to embellish the tryst in a hotel room on the eve of the launch of the doomed liner, Luna proved that one does not have to shock to get attention.
(Picture book; ages 5 to 8) Duke ("Our Guinea Pig Is Not Enough") introduces Hercules, first-grade rodent, in a multilayered tale about time, the seasons and the long, impatient wait for a full-grown pumpkin to pick.
Anyone who fails to recognize it as a brilliant, multilayered tale of the encounter between decadent Europe and crassly overripe America risks being seen as a philistine or a prude.
