Sentences with phrase «literary page turner»

An intelligent, deeply moving, and remarkably written portrait of a relationship that reads as a cross between a romance novel and a literary page turner, A Small Hotel is a masterful story that will remind readers once again why Robert Olen Butler has been called the «best living American writer» (Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star - Telegram).

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Stedman's debut novel, The Light Between Oceans, is a poignant page - turner that marks the arrival of an impressive new literary talent.

Stories of coming of age in the South during the Civil Rights movement are myriad, but Gilmore's addition to this literary tradition feels fresh and is a real page - turner.

The Visible Worldis a literary page - turner and an immensely moving novel about the vagaries of love and our need to make sense of life through the telling of stories.

Your books function on many levels, you're fiction in any case, they're both easy to read, page - turners, but they address serious issues and also have literary illusions varied in them.

Set in the women's prison in Gatestown, Texas, this heartfelt and challenging novel is a true literary page - turner that intertwines the lives of three women: a murderer waiting to be executed on death row — who is at the same time desperately ill with AIDS — the widow of the man she murdered and the physician responsible for the inmate's care.

A literary sensation in Italy, this isn't so much a page - turner as a novel that draws you in, gets into your soul and never leaves.

According to the Guardian, «The excellent writing, and the eschewing of anything remotely winsome or mawkish, make this an eerily subtle literary page - turner.»

«[A] page - turner that introduces the literary world to an author with a clear and profound appreciation for the American literary canon.»

This exciting page - turner follows Martha Gellhorn as she reports from the center of the action of the Spanish Civil War, then jeopardizes her reputation and very existence by falling in love with the greatest literary giant of the day, Ernest Hemingway.