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When the Nines Roll Over (and Other Stories) is a 2004 short story collection by David Benioff. A short film adaptation of the first of the seven stories, for which Benioff wrote the screenplay, directed, and produced, was released in 2005.
Jun 19, 2021 · Language. English. 223 p. ; 22 cm. When the nines roll over -- The Devil comes to Orekovo -- Zoanthropy -- Barefoot girl in clover -- De composition -- Garden of no -- Neversink -- Merde for luck. Access-restricted-item.
In When the Nines Roll Over, David Benioff ( The 25th Hour, City of Thieves) uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a diverse set of characters.
Over the course of eight stories, some with an appealing touch of the surreal, we are introduced to a faded football star, soldiers in a Russian winter, a punk rocker, and...
In When the Nines Roll Over, David Benioff (The 25th Hour, City of Thieves) uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic emotional lives of a...
Sep 1, 2004 · The central story unfurls over a single event-choked year, begun by Wendy, who unlatches a closed adoption and springs on her family the boy her stuffy married sister, Violet, gave away 15 years earlier. (The sisters improbably kept David and Marilyn clueless with a phony study-abroad scheme.)
Now, with When the Nines Roll Over, Benioff uses humor and rich characterizations to explore the sometimes thrilling, sometimes pathetic state of the American urban male. Over the course of eight stories, some with an appealing touch of the surreal, we are introduced to a faded football star, soldiers in a Russian winter, a punk rocker, and ...
