Sentences with phrase «early novel»

Having said that, readers new to the series may note a lack of up front character description - presumably because the characters have been extensively developed in earlier novels.

Plumbing their depths, I thought of a lyrical passage from Pinball the recently published early novel by Haruki Murakami:

«Lowell's primary focus on espionage rather than on romance is a major change from earlier novels, albeit a pleasing one.»

by Anne R. Allen I've been looking over some of my much - rejected early novels recently and discovered they have something in common with a lot of other unpublished fiction: way too much dialogue.

This entertaining film, from a delicious early novel by Henry James, takes place in a New England Arcadia that stands for everything beautiful, pure, and good.

It has been likened to Thomas Berger's modern classic, Little Big Man, but is closer to some other deft literary revisions of this definitively American genre, all published between 1960 and 1972: E. L. Doctorow's early novel Welcome to Hard Times, Charles Portis» True Grit and John Seelye's The Kid.

Todd Haynes's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's early novel stars Cate Blanchett as the titular Carol, a wealthy suburban wife and mother, and Rooney Mara as an aspiring photographer.

After several abortive attempts, and at least three completed earlier novels, I found a buyer for the Spanish thriller, Semana Santa, which appeared in the UK in 1996, won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for first - time novelists, and went on to be published in several different languages around the world, then turned into a movie.

I selected Vanishing Point to review because it was a Nikki Boyd novel, and I've previously read Lisa Harris's three earlier novels featuring Nikki Boyd, and I thought this was part of the same series.

Early novel first serialized in 1941 and published in book form in 1949, about PanAsian invaders of the United States and an isolated group of scientists who fight the invaders by creating a fake religion they refer to as a «sixth column».

Zero K thus extends the reach of the earlier novel.

The Heather Blazing (1992), one of his early novels, opens with Eamon Redmond, a conscientious high court judge in Dublin, writing his last judgment of the term before joining his wife Carmel for summer vacation in the County Wexford, from which they hail.

As in her earlier novels, Miller eschews a conventional happy ending.

«Violence,» as Herzog says in the earlier novel, «is for the goi.»

Although the threads of a romance are introduced in the early novels, Dalgleish does not remarry.

One of the things that causes Harry much anxiety in the earlier novels, such as Chamber of Secrets, is that he turns out to have so much in common with his archenemy, from the ability to speak the serpentine «parsel - tongue» to a traumatic childhood background.

The production design of this cityscape follows the tech - noir trend of Blade Runner 2049 and Netflix's Altered Carbon, and the narrative has riffs of George Lucas» THX 1138 and Yevgeny Zamyatin's early novel We.

You may recognize some of these computer - generated critters from the margins of Rowling's earlier novels, such as the niffler, a duck - billed rodent with a mischievous taste for anything shiny, or the bowtruckle, a shy, twig - like tree dweller that might be an early ancestor of Groot's.

We've been waiting quite some time to see anything besides still photos from The Rum Diary, in which Johnny Depp stars as Paul Kemp, essentially a stand - in for Hunter S. Thompson as seen in Thompson's early novel The Rum Diary.

Kazantzakis, who is better known for his earlier novel Zorba the Greek, is categorized as a Greek agnostic on Wikipedia, but that appears to be an oversimplification of his lifelong exploration of religion and spirituality, which included six months in a monastery.

Leonard's early novels had an electrifying impact on Heather, and she now wants to use her thesis project to spur a rediscovery of his work.

12:15 pm — TCM — Tom Jones The book Tom Jones, written in the late 1700s by Henry Fielding, is usually considered one of the earliest novels, and part of its charm is the way it pastiches earlier literary forms as it tells its story of a rakish young English nobleman and his adventures with women.

Although she is careful not to spell it out, Heard is probably alluding to the hoopla surrounding her recent engagement to Johnny Depp, her costar in 2011's The Rum Diary, which was based on an early novel by Hunter S. Thompson.

Win a bundle of prizes to celebrate the release of the deliciously devious comedy of manners Love & Friendship, adapted by Whit Stillman from an early novel by Jane Austen

Garth Stein leaves us with this suggestion, an exercise he found surprising and effective with an early novel.

In fact, about twenty of my early novel deals were done over dinner up into the mid 1990's.

For me, I visit my used book store and pick up the earlier novels for under a dollar a piece.

As Joe and his father try to help Geraldine heal and figure out who attacked her and why, Erdrich dissects the harsh realities of an imperiled yet vital culture and unjust laws reaching back to a tragedy in her earlier novel The Plague of Doves (2008).

I even attempted and failed at writing one in an early novel.

This past week a client's old publisher came to us with the idea of giving away one of her earlier novels as a promotion to sell her other older titles.

Samuel «Chip» Delany is a friend; I'd been reading him from his earliest novels and stories, sensing with 1967's The Einstein Intersection the true depth of skill, ambition and sheer reach that would lead to Dhalgren in 1975 and, a bit later, the four Neveryon novels.

I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I found the story of Dick Diver's gradual decline to be even more compelling than Fitzgerald's earlier novel.

What worked marvelously in Jin's earlier novel, Waiting, doesn't work as well in A Free Life, twice as long and half as exotic.

The plot is independent of those in Hewson's earlier novels; hence it is unnecessary to read the previous five to enjoy this one.

Still, fans of Ahern's earlier novels will no doubt enjoy her most recent entry in the young - damsel - in - distress genre, and its winning protagonist, Tamara Goodwin.

Grove Publisher Morgan Entrekin says Wanting has the same intellectual depth as his earlier novels «yet may be more approachable for many readers.»

«My earlier novels were, at heart, tales of fatherhood and motherhood.

In the end, though, the Victorian London in my story is a vision from my imagination, in the same way that the Scottish highlands in my earlier novel, Under The Skin, were a personal vision.

For my early novels, although I invested in professional editors and proofreaders to make sure my craft was as water - tight as possible, I was dismayed that readers still managed to find typos.

Or, if your muse just took a vacation on your WIP, take a break and use the time to revise an earlier novel.

Part picaresque, part bildungsroman, Lady Bird & The Fox is a return to the dual - narrative romantic adventure of my early novels — packed with the kinds of historical detail that are generally overlooked in Australian fiction, and told with a bit of a wry smile and plenty of warmth.

While my early novels were dire and violent tests of faith, in the later books I've noticed a focus on endurance, acceptance and even hope, with characters finding a way to go on after the worst has happened.

Like O'Nan's earlier novels, it features a displaced hero who, despite everything, still believes his life has purpose.

Matthiessen concludes his Watson trilogy with a magnificent epic that resolves some of the questions raised in the earlier novels about the larger - than - life character's mysterious past.

Long unavailable, Avon is now re-issuing Judith Ivory's early novel, Black Silk, which pits Submit Channing - Downes and Graham Wessit in a courtship dance as intricate as the aristocratic realm they inhabit.

Now an earlier novel, Dogs at the Perimeter, will be available to American readers.

The story, which has threads that bind it to the earlier novel but can be read...