Sentences with phrase «most beautiful novel»

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo is the strangest and most beautiful novel I've read in a long time.

One way to understand what Eliot represents is to look at her first and in some respects most beautiful novel, Adam Bede (1859).

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For me Planet Books is the best bookstore I know, I have bought shelves of very heavy but beautiful art, fashion, design and photography books, as well as most recently a host of David Sedaris novels.

«We are thrilled to return to a country, place and festival that has always been so close to our hearts, not only because my first film, «Strictly Ballroom,» was screened there 21 years ago, but also because F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of the most poignant and beautiful passages of his extraordinary novel just a short distance away at a villa outside St. Raphael.»

The River — Jean Renoir's beautiful adaptation of a Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus) novel (she wrote the screenplay as well) about a British colonial family in India is lushly romantic while managing to, for the most part, avoid the pitfalls of imperialism that drag down The Darjeeling Limited.

For Let the Right One In, director Tomas Alfredson and screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist (who adapted his 2004 novel) employ most of the usual vampire «rules,» as well as some overly familiar plot arcs, but they present them in a unique, surprisingly beautiful manner.

Henderson's new novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, is a beautiful literary novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.

All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews I scored this novel at a book exchange party a couple months ago, and it felt like winning the most unexpectedly beautiful prize.

As crushing as it is beautiful, Shobha Rao's debut novel follows two Indian girls through the most hopeless of circumstances, but their enduring friendship burns brightly — endlessly — through it all.

Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson's first full - length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date.

This is Ms. Macy's first book, but it's in a class with other runaway debuts like Laura Hillenbrand's «Seabiscuit» and Katherine Boo's «Behind the Beautiful Forevers»: These nonfiction narratives are more stirring and dramatic than most novels.

- Carl Hiaasen «Fast, terrifying, and at times beautiful, Every Man a Menace is that most unusual thing: a deeply original and frightening crime novel.»

Unfortunately for 2K and Turtle Rock, most of the noise around the release is not about the beautiful graphics or novel gameplay concepts.

This kind of togetherness describes one of the most beautiful relationships in Tolstoy's novels — the love between Kitty and Levin in Anna Karenina.