Sentences with phrase «beautiful novel»

I read Rachel Lyon's sharp and achingly beautiful novel about art and fame and loneliness and death in a frenzy, full of a deep and urgent need.

One Community One Book - The «One Community One Book» selection for May 2018 is Ernest Hemingway's moving and beautiful novel of love and war in World War I Italy.

Acclaimed author Jennifer Gilmore's intimate and achingly beautiful novel deftly explores the role that chance and choice play in shaping the lives of two teenagers who are separated by...

One way to understand what Eliot represents is to look at her first and in some respects most beautiful novel, Adam Bede (1859).

With wry candor and tender humor, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

With wry candor and tender humor, acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman has crafted a strikingly beautiful novel for our time, tackling the absurdities of modern life and reminding us why we love some people no matter what.

Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to contemporary Australia, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence.

Praised for writing that is «vivid and distinct» (Library Journal, starred review) and «exquisite in its simplicity and eloquence» (Kirkus Reviews), Favel Parrett delivers a stunningly beautiful novel about the bond forged between two unlikely and unforgettable strangers.

«Not only is ILLUMINAE a twisting, heart - pounding story moving at the speed of light, but it is a truly beautiful novel that redefines the form.

This heartbreakingly beautiful film, a brilliant adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's equally beautiful novel, is a sort of Casablanca for our time.

It's a very dreamlike, very beautiful novel and it worked well for my purposes.

An absolutely beautiful novel, Back to Jerusalem is a reminder to all of us that whatever you do, wherever you go, «home is forever embedded in your spirit, and your soul.»

In the simplest words, this small, beautiful novel captures the anguish of Japanese American internment through the separate viewpoints of one family: the mother as they leave home, the daughter on the long train journey, the son in the camps, the father returning to his family.

They built the place four years ago after the success of Haruf's beautiful novel Plainsong allowed him to retire after 30 years of...

Celona's ravishingly beautiful novel offers a deeply affecting look at the choices we make and what it means to be a family, and it marks the debut of a magnificent new voice in contemporary fiction.

ROOTS, RUMOR & WRATH is a tragic yet beautiful novel about war, mystery and refugee struggle.

The film owes a debt to the immaculate prose of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 source novel — not to mention her social daring in writing a sophisticated and beautiful novel of love between two women at a time when that love was defined legally and morally as «obscene».

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo is the strangest and most beautiful novel I've read in a long time.

In a stunningly beautiful novel, orphan Crow decides to investigate her own past and in doing so uncovers the complicated history of a nearby former leper colony.

«A truly beautiful novel» (Victoria Aveyard, bestselling author of Red Queen) with over 36,000 five - star ratings on Goodreads!

This achingly beautiful novel is designed to make you feel all the feels.

So lately I've been staying up until 2 a.m. reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett — a beautiful novel set in Jackson Mississippi during the civil rights movement.

This beautiful novel pepper has thrilled the chilehead community with its spicy and unique taste.

While writing Wonder, she was a busy mom and wife, had a demanding full - time career, an elderly parent who needed her support and attention and yet she still found time to write this beautiful novel.

The story is a beautiful novel about moral growth and love, and the relationship between Rachel and Chloe is captivating, but ends feeling rushed and loses the focus.

And that really began with reading The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith's beautiful novel, and the gorgeous adaptation of Phyllis's script that first came to me with Cate attached.

Based on André Aciman's beautiful novel of the same name, the film illustrates a narrative of grueling desire and devastating passion.

It's no surprise that Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, writers and executive producers of NBC's emotionally charged drama This Is Us have done such a remarkable job at translating Becky Albertalli's beautiful novel, Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda for the screen.

I'm rehearsing another play: Elizabeth Strout's beautiful novel My Name Is Lucy Barton, adapted into a monologue, with Laura Linney.

Some cinema - goers were furious about the ending of this Oscar - winning crime saga, in which Javier Bardem's remorseless contract killer walks away scot - free having wiped out practically everyone in the film we care about, but the Coen brothers were being faithful to the spirit of Cormac McCarthy's bleak and beautiful novel.

Based on a true story of a small Jewish child who hid to survive the Nazi occupation of Holland — and didn't know his parents when they came to get him after the war — this spare, beautiful novel is a dramatic way to introduce middle - schoolers to Holocaust history.

This is a brave, beautiful novel, deserving of much praise and a wide readership.

This beautiful novel has a wonderfully uplifting ending.

Americanah is a beautiful novel, and it's more than worthy of the copious amounts of praise heaped upon it.

It sounds like a beautiful novel.

A gripping family drama, this small, beautiful novel, rooted in hard fact, is true to 11 - year - old Tessa's experience after her older brother is killed in a drunk - driving accident.

- Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves «The Nest is a trenchant, darkly funny, and beautiful novel.»

- Ron Rash, author of Serena «From the opening pages of this beautiful novel, I found myself immersed in the lives of these two farm women between the wars and their struggles with their families, themselves, the land and each other.

I posted earlier on the brilliant, beautiful novel The Goldfinch.

This beautiful novel examines a Southern tradition — the do - it - yourself, at - home wedding — in all of its intricacies, from the cast of characters who make the big day a reality and the new relationships that form in such intimate settings to the surprises that wedding guests will tell stories about for years to come.

«Reading this beautiful novel, I felt I was watching a brilliant mind invent new tools for thinking.

This intriguing, beautiful novel is remarkable for its unusual but attentively structured plot: a writer living in coastal British Columbia, currently thwarted by writer's block, one day finds a collection of materials contained in a lunchbox that has washed up on the beach, and what's inside envelops her in the details of someone else's life.

A beautiful novel of shared history, Gateway to the Moon is a moving and memorable portrait of a family and its journey through the centuries.

So begins Walker's quest, as well as this beautiful novel that takes our hard - boiled knight across the vast landscape of an imaginary middle America that begins subtly to morph into something stranger.

«We are immensely excited and inspired to be working with Lucy and Doug on this magical, extraordinary project and look forward to bringing Vanessa Diffenbaugh's beautiful novel to life as a film,» Gabler said.

Doerr's beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France during World War II.

Another beautiful novel.

Knowing how long you worked to craft a beautiful novel, and seeing the range of rejections you received, is ultimately a message of encouragement and a source of hope.