Ann patchett, author of commonwealth i loved ten thousand saints. Based on the novel by eleanor henderson, it follows jude asa butterfield, who is sent to new york from vermont to live with his estranged father ethan hawke. Laurel macks life stopped in many ways the day her 15yearold daughter, ellie, left the house to study at the library and never returned. In ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel, the ghosts of st. The clubs in new york city, the legendary club cbgb was a mecca. With empathy and masterful skill, eleanor henderson has conjured a rich portrait of the modern. Book tells impact of uncle toms cabin on north, south. The roman catholic church has canonized more than ten thousand named saints, the vast majority of them within the past one. Set in the 1980s, a teenager from vermont moves to new york city to live with his father in east village.
In saints, a straightedge coming of age set in the late 1980s, eleanor hendersons bittersweet ten thousand saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing manhattan. Ten thousand saints is a boring, lifeless comingofage story that tries way too hard to be edgy without really giving us a reason why. For a movie with extremely loud punkrock music at its core, ten thousand saints is a pleasantly lowkey experience. Asa butterfield navigates the 1980s new york punk scene. As time went on, there were a number of unexplained, miraculous, or, at least, fortunate events attributed to requests made or venerations of particular saints.
Whats the story a comingofage story about three teenagers in late 1980s new york cityjude asa butterfield, new to the city from vermont, straightedge musician johnny emile hirsch, and troubled, rich uptown girl eliza hailee steinfeldwho break away from their messedup parents ethan hawke and emily mortimer to form their own surrogate family. In nearly 400 pages, henderson does not hold back once. I remember this manhattan, the sunday matinees at cbs, the rage over yuppies colonizing the east village. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your. Eleanor hendersons debut novel ten thousand saints is set in late 1980s vermont and, more memorably, new york. Ten thousand saints, is an enjoyable coming of age film about complicated and dysfunctional families and characters in the late 1980s. Given the title of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons. Inspired by the historical journey of ten thousand greek warriors in the persian empire circa 401 bc, this tale is a gritty, bloody, and brutal look at the realities of ancient war especially civil war and its undeniable horrors. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this ten thousand saints study guide and get instant access to the following chapter summaries. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads. Sixteenyearold jude begins the book as a drugaddled misfit and misfits fan in.
The ten thousand is a grimdark fantasy penned by paul kearney. With ethan hawke, asa butterfield, hailee steinfeld, emily mortimer. Its very bland, boring, uninteresting, and despite some solid performances, never really gets you connected to the main character, which is crucial in a ten thousand saints is a boring, lifeless comingofage story that tries way too hard to be edgy. As henderson says, now the makebelieve had come to an end, and her. In her 2011 novel, ten thousand saints, author eleanor henderson pushed millions of readers out into those same city streets to experience the. Ann kopitzke the conclusion i drew at the end of the books was the judes unnamed wife was eliza.
Premillennialists assert that this statement refers to the return of the righteous to the earth at the end of the socalled rapture period. A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during the late 1980s, ten thousand saints. A comingofage story whose growing pains are divided among not just adolescents but presumed adults, shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. Ten thousand saints is set primarily during the youth crew era, a resurgence of a culture that first hit the scene in the 70s.
Ten thousand saints, a punk period piece carried in tandem by butterfield and ethan hawke. She truly has breathed life into the east villages recent storied past, and has transformed that neighborhood into a character as vividly realized as her novels people. Ten thousand saints is a film adapted from novel ten thousand saints book works eleanor henderson. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading. During the first few centuries of the church, people began to remember, honor, and even venerate many saints. Marks are brought back to lifehendersons book reads in part like an elegy. Ten thousand saints, the new film from shari springer berman and robert pulcini that opened in theaters and on demand friday, is set in that late 80s east village moment. The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, paperback.
The film, based on the novel by eleanor henderson, begins in rural vermont where we meet two bestfriend stoner teens from broken hippy families. Ten thousand saints sheila omalley august 14, 2015. Author gets off to fast start with ten thousand saints. Given the title of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons entertaining and readable debut novel, and the fact that its protagonist is named for saint jude, you might reasonably conclude that the book is about goodness, sainthood, moral transformation. Ten thousand saints, a coming of age in the east village, circa 1980s asa butterfield, aloft, plays a troubled vermont teenager who moves to new york to live with his estranged. Ten thousand saints has a rich, textured look, with a tendency toward the dour and desaturated in its cinematography, which fits the milieu of angsty 80s teens in the city. Ten thousand saints 2015 cast and crew a teen asa butterfield, a pregnant girl hailee steinfeld and the lead singer emile hirsch of a punkrock band form their own surrogate family in late. The script sometimes borders on the tooliterary and symbolic judes name, first of all, and the book of jude quoted at teddys funeral, but the acting is so solid, so fascinating to watch behaviorally, that its not an issue. Moving back and forth between vermont and new york city, ten thousand saints is an emphatically observed story of a frayed tangle of family members brought painfully together by a death, then carried along in anticipation of a new and unexpected life. All 32 songs from the 10,000 saints 2015 movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. Perhaps not, reynolds judges, but he argues that the book, and the dozens of uncle toms cabin plays that ceaselessly toured the country, were a strong factor in the election in 1860 of lincoln. Ten thousand saints writerdirectors on assembling starstudded cast, recreating late80s new york. With a starstudded ensemble cast, ten thousand saints tells the story of a group of friends and family members who come together in late80s.
She remarked, i read the book and i loved how human the characters were and how flawed, yet wellmeaning, they were, which i think is a very. It was the hair, at first i thought i would hate this movie because of the kids hair. This is the trailer for the book ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson, not the movie we do not own this video. Listen to and download the music, ost, score, list of songs and trailers. Ten thousand saints youtube hailee steinfeld talks ten thousand saints, pitch perfect 2, barely lethal and more duration. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Published by ecco books in 2011, ten thousand saints is also available from. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder a sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during the late 1980s, ten thousand saints triumphantly heralds the. Though it loses some steam as it hurtles toward a happy ending, ten thousand saints is at its best when depicting the punk scene in new york in the 1980s and its amalgam of homeless. Making the new east village old again in ten thousand saints. Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer. Eleanor henderson, author of ten thousand saints proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder.
He comes with ten thousand of his holy ones saints to execute judgment on all, and to destroy all the ungodly wicked. Stroll down saint marks place in new york city today past the glossy new high rises and the twentysomethings dressed in hip highend. In ten thousand saints eleanor henderson has written the quintessential novel of new york citys east village in the late 1980s. Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she cant truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. The book is less hagiography than peter pan, a band of orphans fighting their own.