Sentences with phrase «nonfiction novel»

A good nonfiction novel can have one of two effects: it pulls you into the material and holds you there until the end; or, it has a lot of excessive information with overly long paragraphs that run on for pages.

America's fascination with true crime storytelling has existed for quite some time, with Truman Capote noting in the 1960s that he'd created a new art form (the «nonfiction novel») with In Cold Blood, his best - selling account of the gruesome murder of a Kansas family.

Ross, as current New Yorker editor David Remnick reminds us in the foreword, virtually invented the «nonfiction novel,» long before Truman Capote or Norman Mailer.

I was completely smitten by this nonfiction novel (read it, you'll see what I mean).

Death by Opera, mystery by Erica Miner Dolet, nonfiction novel by Florence Byham Weinberg.

Although Dietz's description of his first book as a «nonfiction novel» will leave some readers wary, he devotes much space to the controversial William Arnett, whose nonprofit Tinwood Alliance owns the quilts on view at the de Young.