Sentences with phrase «beauty of a good novel»
The beauty of a good novel is all you have to do is flip the page (or the cover on your e-Reader) and you open the door to adventure!
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The other possibility, the evocation of the transcendent good — grace, beauty, God — through the hard temporal realities of individuals in action is much harder to carry off, as evidenced in Greene's The Power and the Glory, Charles Williams» Descent into Hell, C. S. Lewis» Out of the Silent Planet, Tolstoy's Resurrection, and perhaps most poignantly in the dismal failure of most literary attempts to portray the central mystery, the life of Jesus — Kazantzakis» The Greek Passion, Faulkner's A Fable, or — most dismal of all, historical novels about Jesus (what could be less hidden?)
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Drawing on elements from African history and tribal culture, as well as contemporary and forward - looking flourishes, «Black Panther» pulses with color, vibrancy and layered textural beauty, from the beadwork and textiles of Ruth Carter's spectacular costumes and Hannah Beachler's warm, dazzlingly eye - catching production design to hairstyles, tattoos and scarifications that feel both ancient and novel.
A chewy, handsomely staged novel of a movie, Sorry Angel (whose much better French title translates to Pleasure, Love, and Run Fast) contains moments of piercing intelligence and heartbreaking beauty.
It works well in New York street scenes and panoramas — such as the novel's celebrated vision of Manhattan glimpsed from the Queensborough Bridge («the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world»)-- but it makes the actors look more like mannequins than people.
When it's done well, it has the lyrical quality of the perfect poem, the emotional punch of a novel and the beauty of a sculpture.
Sheri S. Tepper is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Margarets, The Companions, The Visitor, The Fresco, Singer from the Sea, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Shadow's End, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, and Beauty, which was voted Best Fantasy Novel of the Year by readers of Locus magazine.
The result is a novel of immense beauty, as Brockmeier slowly reveals the quiet intimacies of a happy marriage, as well as the bonds and shared pain between the six strangers.
Dietland By Sarai Walker Mariner • $ 14.95 • ISBN 9780544704831 Walker's daring debut novel, an Indie Next pick which came in at # 26 on our Best Books of 2015 ranking, features a 300 - pound heroine who takes a revolutionary approach to beauty and weight loss.
... At the end of this heartfelt and well - paced novel nothing tangible has changed; Emilia still misses Isabel, still finds William's questions trying, still finds it a challenge to cope with the ex-wife; but she has survived and grown through her grief, having been transformed into someone who can appreciate the «accidental beauty» of life in both the good and bad moments.
In their review of Almond's first novel, School Library Journal best summed up what I think is Almond's greatest strength as a writer: «The beauty here is that there is no answer and readers will be left to wonder and debate, and make up their own minds.»
She forged new ground, first by focusing on storytelling in her comics and then by prioritizing visual art in her two acclaimed novels: The Good Times Are Killing Me, which was adapted into an off - Broadway play, and Cruddy, which the New York Times called, «a work of terrible beauty.»
His last novel, The Well - Beloved (1892/96), describes the romantic, sexual and artistic frustration of a sculptor searching for the ideal of feminine beauty in his life and in his art.