Sentences with phrase «in lyrical prose»

Written in lyrical prose, If I Forget You is at once a great love story, a novel of marriage, manners, and family, a meditation on the nature of art, a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.

In lyrical prose, Fox ruminates on how these perceptions might influence our attitude toward the planet once human travel is possible.

Publishers Weekly (starred review):»... Dividing the book into sections named after sacraments, Evans begins by contemplating, in lyrical prose, the theological significance of each sacrament's key ingredient (water, bread, ash, etc.).

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Yet, what he saw he saw in a holy fullness that most of us now miss, and his lyrical prose is filled with biblical echoes.

Rogers» vision of growth, described in almost lyrical prose, helped to awaken my interest in exploring the growth approach further.

And now, please meet Sherry of Petite Over 40, our guest blogger for this month, and someone I absolutely adore for her mastery in not just putting together the most whimsy of outfits but the deft ability to massage and cajole the written word into lyrical prose.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Woodson's background not only as a novelist but also as a poet, Another Brooklyn is told in spare, lyrical prose, with a surface simplicity that belies its underlying narrative strength and emotional heft.

In BookPage, reviewer Jillian Quint writes, «Erdrich is a muscular and fearless writer, and she explores her characters with both compassion and criticism and through lyrical and visceral prose.»

by Anne R. Allen You can learn all you want about writing powerful prose, well - planned story arcs, lyrical descriptions — or any other aspect of fiction — but if you don't have a protagonist your readers care about, none of the rest matters.I don't think it's terribly relevant to talk about character «likability» in the sense of «niceness.»

A work of bold, lyrical beauty, telling detail and compelling characterization — at once cheerful and thoughtful, playful and profound — and written in a unique prose style that metamorphoses brilliantly with the passage of time, 26a will surely be one of the most - talked - about novels of this year and many years to come, and its remarkable author, Diana Evans, welcomed gratefully into the highest order of literary achievement.

This stunning profile of determination, stubbornness, and courage mixes lyrical prose and shimmering oil paintings to evoke the solitary vigil of Admiral Richard Byrd, who lived for months in a small underground structure in Antarctica.

«Written in captivating, lyrical prose, Barry's novel is both a sparkling literary puzzle and a stark cautionary tale of corrupted power.»

The early life of Elvis Presley is presented here in prose that is sometimes lyrical and sometimes sharp - edged, bringing the singer close.

Turpin's hypnotic narration highlights the lyrical prose and richly layered story line in this post-ecological-disaster sci - fi drama in which scavenger Rachel discovers the mysterious Borne.

Rhythmic prose can be more lyrical, driving, or smooth, all while helping connect readers to emotions in our writing.

Robertson's lyrical prose evokes the not - so - distant past, when indigenous Canadian (and American) children were forcibly placed in boarding schools whose main goal was to eradicate their Native cultural ways.

Quite simply, I adored this book which explored slavery and subjugation in a prose so lyrical and moving that I heard the characters lilt in every phrase I read.

Al - Mohaimeed's prose is taut and yet lyrical, evoking the harsh beauty of the desert landscape in spare sentences rich with vivid imagery.

In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a «what if» can be more powerful than an experience itself.

A versatile prose stylist... [Aboulela's] lyrical style and incisive portrayal of Muslims living in the West received praise from the Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee... [she is] a voice for multiculturalism.»

Kelle Hampton interweaves lyrical prose and stunning four - color photography as she recounts the unforgettable story of the first year in the life of her daughter Nella, who has Down syndrome.

All the while, the creative, lyrical prose — at times reminiscent of my all - time favorite novel, The Book Thief — often left me in awe.

- John Katzenbach, author of The Wrong Man «Cloudland is Joseph Olshan's best work since Clara's Heart, a novel of high suspense that's written in prose as lyrical as The Lovely Bones.»

With its lyrical prose and confident grace, A Free Life is a luminous addition to the works of one of the preeminent writers in America today.

A writer whose «unflinching yet lyrical prose» O Magazine recently compared to Toni Morrison, Bond might just have penned the breakout novel of the year with Ruby, a period drama set in rural Texas.

We publish the narrative poetry and lyrical prose, and we are interested in the way contemporary literature is testing the boundaries of genre.

He recorded epiphanies large and small that transpired in those two acres, in both lyrical paint and in prose in his column «Notes from Madoo» published by The East Hampton Star.

Regardless of the era he studies or the decade in which he writes, his lyrical prose always ultimately serves a fervent political concern.

Somehow, during some Soho pub crawl in October 1953, the lyrical tosspot lost the manuscript of Under Milk Wood, a play in poetry and prose.