

Yellow Earth
Author: John Sayles
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Unabridged: 16 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 01/07/2020
Categories: Fiction, Political, Indigenous
Author: John Sayles
Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
Unabridged: 16 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 01/07/2020
Categories: Fiction, Political, Indigenous
John Sayles works as a fiction writer, screenwriter, actor, and feature film director. His novel Union Dues was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics' Circle Award. He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has directed eighteen feature films. His films Matewan and Lone Star, as well as his novel A Moment in the Sun, are often used for instruction in history and American studies courses.
Diving into a John Sayles novel is just that—the reader takes a swan dive, unable to know ahead of time how deep the water is, what might be swimming around in it, or even where one will be. Yellow Earth's "pool" is oil-digging (specifically fracking) country on a state-sized Three Nations Indian re......more
John Sayles writes both novels and screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The feature film I am most familiar with Sayles directing is Matawen about a Virginia coal miners strike that erupted into violence, and introduced the actor Chris Cooper. Sayle......more
As ever the characters in a John Sayles novel are very human, and represent well their place and their time. You learn so much by engaging with the story cinematically (because each chapter and section could be screenplay staging, the dialog is well chosen to get big points across). But...this story......more