Where the Boys Are Where the Boys Are Where the Boys Are is a 1960 Metrocolor and CinemaScope American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Henry Levin, written by George Wells based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Glendon Swarthout, about four Midwestern college co-eds who spend spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The title song "Where the Boys Are" was sung by Connie Francis, who also co-starred in a supporting role. The film was aimed at the teen market, featuring sun, sand and romance. Released in the wintertime, it inspired many American college students to head to Fort Lauderdale for their
Giraffe (novel) if Radiohead's 'Idioteque' had mixed with something by Haruki Murakami." The "New York Times" critic was "continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange." According to one of the novel's publishers, Penguin Press, ""Giraffe" marks the debut of an unforgettable talent... At once vivid and unearthly, "Giraffe" is a meditation on suffering, on the strangeness of vertical creatures, and on the inhabitants of a middling totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the ‘communist moment’." Giraffe (novel) Giraffe is a debut novel by Scottish writer J. M. Ledgard. "Giraffe" is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered