Fiction into Film

This month in the library you'll find two displays featuring books that have gone Hollywood. Here are just a few of the many titles you'll find:

Austenland by Shannon Hale: Jane Hayes is a seemingly normal young New Yorker, but she has a secret with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice which no real man can compare. But when a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-crazed women, Jane's fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined. 

Austenland was adapted into a film starring  Keri Russell, Jane Seymour, Jennifer Coolidge and J.J. Feild was released in United States in August 2013.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer: Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, and pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. 

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was made into a film with the same name starring Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock which was released in 2011. 

Under the Skin by Michael Faber: Isserley is tiny, scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening as she cruises the roads of the Scottish Highlands sizing up male hitchhikers with big muscles. As she drives them deep into the Scottish wilds, they open up to her, revealing a complex and varied picture of life on earth - but Isserley is listening for clues such as who might miss them if they should disappear. If she decides they're worth the risk, she takes them farther than they ever dreamed of going. But takes them where?

Under the Skin has been adapted into a film starring Scarlett Johansson which will be released in the United States on April 4, 2014.

For more "Fiction into Film" titles, stop by the display in the alcove by the New Book collection, see the "From Page to Screen" display in the Video Room and stop by the reference desk to speak with a librarian.