Sentences with phrase «debut novel explores»
This heartfelt debut novel explores the muddy landscape of truth and lies and lays bare the sometimes painful but often hopeful work of writing one's own authentic story.
https://www.bookbrowse.com/ Not exact matches
READ: Try Zadie Smith's debut novel White Teeth to explore 1970s London, or wander about the English countryside with a classic British novel by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, or one of the Brontë sisters.
In a year that also sees the official eighth story in the main «Harry Potter» epic, «Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,» debuting as a theatrical production, «Fantastic Beasts» reveals another corner of the wizarding world, exploring an American community of witches and wizards 70 years before the events of Rowling's novels.
Adapted from George V. Higgins's debut novel, the gritty drama explores Boston's criminal underworld and stars Mitchum as the titular gunrunner Eddie «Fingers» Coyle.
«In this fast - paced, thought - provoking debut novel, McKay, a psychologist who works with humanitarian relief, explores injustice, religious reconciliation, suffering and faith... This is one of Christian fiction's best novels of the year.»
Her debut novel, the first book in the Seeds trilogy, co-written with her mother Kristy and sister Elena, is a science - fiction dystopia that explores what happens when corrupt politicians control the food system.
This is the terrifying question that author Ali Land explores in her debut novel Good Me, Bad Me.
- Library Journal «In this clever, multilayered debut, McHugh deftly explores the past of an Ozark Mountain family... with plenty to hide and the ruthlessness to keep their secrets hidden... This is an outstanding first novel, replete with suspense, crisp dialogue, and vivid Ozarks color and atmosphere.»
In her debut novel, Prentiss takes a more modern tack as she explores the NYC art scene in the 1980s through the eyes of an art critic whose synesthesia has made him one of the most original writers around and an exiled Argentinian artist fleeing the Dirty War.
Strout explored the complicated relationships of three brothers in her last book, The Burgess Boys, but in her new novel, she once again explores the mother - daughter bond — the relationship that powered her knockout 1999 debut, Amy & Isabelle.
Sharon Guskin's debut novel, The Forgetting Time, explores reincarnation — specifically children who seem to experience it.
From depression and potential suicide in his debut novel, Looking for Alaska, to terminal illness in The Fault in Our Stars, and now obsessive - compulsive disorder in his latest novel, Turtles All the Way Down, it seems that Green it is at his strongest when he is exploring such meaty and delicate topics.
In her debut novel, Children of the Jacaranda Tree, author Sahar Delijani attempts to answer these questions while exploring the impact war has on its prisoners and those left safely outside.
Quatro's debut novel (her follow - up to the excellent short story collection I Want to Show You More) explores heady questions of faith and passion through the story of a woman's adultery.
This is one of the themes that Nancy Reisman, an award - winning writer of short fiction, explores in her beautiful debut novel The First Desire.
Both are debut novels by foreign authors, both explore the interplay between the tight bonds of family and the larger, pervasive national consciousness, and both traverse these themes amidst the backdrop of political and social unrest.