Sentences with phrase «kaleidoscopic novel»
Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath and wonders what would happen if a Muslim - American was blindly chosen to plan the World Trade Center Memorial.
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These evocative details only left me wanting more intel on Toltz's life, on what led him to write such a kaleidoscopic novel.
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To understand Dario Argento, there are two types of films you need to know about: his kaleidoscopic graphic novel - style horror, and his Hitchcock thriller pastiches.
At least Baz Luhrmann's visually kaleidoscopic adaptation F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel quotes the famous final sentence of the book, although it's after having proved that it possesses no awareness of what that statement actually says.
A stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.
We are used to novels that present a «slice of life,» but, in this kaleidoscopic romp, we have a «slice of death» with an impish grin.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny — a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as «a treasure - house of story, and we are lucky to have him.»
Though it is informed by both the themes and kaleidoscopic storytelling of Melville's great American novel, this is easily one of the most inventive and original YA fantasies in some time.
More than anything, though, this graphic novel (if it can even be called that) mimics the kaleidoscopic nature of memory itself — fleeting, contradictory, anchored to a few significant moments, and a heavier burden by the day.
A kaleidoscopic view of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests, this novel puts a personal touch on the political to great effect.
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Literary Fiction A riveting, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race, history, ancestry, love, and time that traces the descendants...
In all of these cases, Rakowitz displays a virtuosic propensity for connecting dots that resemble the most kaleidoscopic storylines of a Thomas Pynchon novel.
For instance, Wood's daughter's painted face, the flowers of an orchid, and the musculature of Manute Bol's arm appear equally as intimate portrayals, kaleidoscopic visions, and novel painterly events.