Sentences with phrase «of his greatest novels yet»

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Gracefully describing the behavior of fish and butterflies and humpback whales, spinning out extended metaphors of great explanatory power, and conveying it all in a voice that was both familiar yet rigorous, Dawkins not only achieved a superb, lay - friendly exposition of Darwinian evolution but pushed the science into novel conceptual territory.

The Great Gatsby, his scintillating version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, may be garish and boorish and brutish and extravagant — and it is all of those things and more — yet it is never insincere; it never puts on airs and pretends to be something that it is not.

Despite the uptick in remakes, it's extremely difficult to identify a few dozen great ones — particularly when you exclude movies like The Thing, which represent the second attempt at adapting a novel — and yet we can't deny that some of the greatest films ever made wouldn't have been possible without slapping a new paint job on an old chassis.

Here's an example of great optimism: while the first film based on Cassandra Clare «s The Mortal Instruments novels hasn't even opened yet, Constantin Films is already putting together a prequel.

At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to finance his next film, «Psycho,» a story based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.

Novels can be put down and picked up again at will, allowing much greater freedom for long expository sequences and character development, and yet the skill of a great filmmaker is to convey the information concisely, such that we feel we know the characters and plot as well as were they written, but within the time and attention - span limitations that are inherent on screen.

Delicately adapted from Willy Vlautin's 2010 novel, it follows classical narrative arcs of both the coming - of - age story and the great American road movie, yet with precious little of the romanticism and sentimentality that tends to accompany them: Haigh, rather like his stoic protagonist, keeps his eye quietly and pragmatically on the destination.

In Philida, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, André Brink — «one of South Africa's greatest novelists» (The Telegraph)-- gives us his most powerful novel yet; the truly unforgettable story of a female slave, and her fierce determination to survive and to be free.

With his best novel yet, the Edgar Award - winning Hart firmly cements his place alongside the greats of the genre.

But perhaps the greatest pleasure of this novel is glimpsing the world through the keenly observant and imaginative eyes of its irresistible teenage narrator, whose generous, unique, yet ever perceptive outlook makes the world feel more beautiful, more colorful, more cruel and kind, more full of possibility — in short, makes the world feel More.

Sad yet funny, brilliant yet unpretentious, Nunez's latest novel is the story of a woman who navigates grief with the help of her late friend's massive Great Dane.

In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann's stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author's most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

I've also been reading a lot of really great stuff I can't tell you about yet — advanced readers copies of some terrific novels that will come out next year, as well as a couple of memoirs that should make a splash when their publication times come.

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible.

Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are his tyrannical stepfather, Mr Murdstone; his formidable aunt, Betsey Trotwood; the eternally humble yet treacherous Uriah Heep; frivolous, enchanting Dora; & the magnificently impecunious Micawber, one of literature's great comic creations.In «David Copperfield» — the novel he described as his «favorite child» — Dickens drew revealingly on his own experiences to create one of his most exuberant & enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy & comedy in equal measure...

I self - published my middle grade adventure novel (in the USA) and went on to win a slew of book awards, No great sales yet (boo hoo!)

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In his recent book - length essay The Great Derangement, the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh wonders why global warming and natural disaster haven't become major subjects of contemporary fiction — why we don't seem able to imagine climate catastrophe, and why we haven't yet had a spate of novels in the genre he basically imagines into half - existence and names «the environmental uncanny.»