Sentences with phrase «of literary thriller»

In a sense, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is the prototype of this strain of literary thriller, but modern examples abound by writers such as Stephen Dobyns and Richard Price.

The surprising commercial success of Umberto's Eco's Name of the Rose (1983), certainly the contemporary prototype of the literary thriller, historical division, legitimized genre - bending — even for those timid publishers who tend to fear any product that can't be pigeonholed.

The second variety of literary thriller is the contemporary novel that hits the crime - filled mean streets hard but, again, abandons formula in favor of a more wide - sweeping approach to social issues and interpersonal dynamics.

A trio of fine actors animates Egan's intriguing characters and enlivens this vividly realized mix of literary thriller and historical fiction.

Not exact matches

One of the most stimulating books on the modern British experience comes not from the contemporary literary giants but from a thriller writer.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

Though it doesn't play as a thriller (it's not trying to, particularly), «Kill Your Darlings» tells the tense, disturbing, sometimes - moving backstory of a few inspired and reckless geniuses who redrew the boundaries of literary expression.

In what's unfortunately one of the lesser films about a literary great, John Cusack wields a quill and a gun as The Raven's Edgar Allen Poe, a legend who would've skewered this thriller in one of his sharp - tongued newsprint critiques.

It's the Mods versus the Rockers in Rowan Joffe's glossy update of Graham Greene's canonical 1937 literary thriller Brighton Rock.

She also represents a range of women's fiction, from literary to upmarket commercial, to romance, as well as crime fiction (mysteries, thrillers), and the occasional literary or commercial novel not aimed at a female market.

«Mark helped me to get a top literary agent a while back, and now my novel, «The Wrong Hand» (a psychological thriller) is published with an imprint / division of Penguin Books called Michael Joseph that is «principally interested in publishing Top Ten Bestsellers».

A coming - of - age novel and a literary thriller that weaves back and forth through time and across America, from Alaska to the Adirondacks, The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley is an unforgettable story about the cost we pay to protect the people we love most.

Lake, who won in 2013 for In Darkness, offers a new literary thriller that was inspired by a haunting moment in his own life: A coyote ran across his path in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this image resonated through his mind and life until coming to rest within the pages of There Will Be Lies (Bloomsbury).

A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.

The gallery heist in the book is real, and B.A. Shapiro's extensive research of the event adds a realistic quality to this literary thriller.

I reviewed The Swimming Pool for BookPage's August debut roundup, and I suppose you would describe the story as a sexy literary thriller filled with lots of family drama — perfect for a winter weekend when you want to disappear for a few hours with a good read.

Starting in the middle east in a classic op gone horribly wrong, it mines a number of spiritual, historical, literary, and political veins to create a very interesting thriller.

With Monster's incomparably deft characterizations and dazzlingly dark plot twists, Jonathan Kellerman further enhances his literary position as master of the psychological thriller.

Sitting uneasily at the junction of thriller, mystery, horror, and literary fiction, Elizabeth Scott's Living Dead Girl presents a world so closed off and self - contained it leaves no room for slow reveals or plot twists.

This thriller is written with the finesse of the best literary fiction.

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If you assign a thriller to someone who prefers literary fiction, that reviewer is likely to react the same way that someone who hates vegetables will upon seeing a plate of peas: They will have a distaste for the book before they even open it.

This particular story reveals how Siobhan Cunningham, an author of fiction thriller novels, wrote an agent query that got the attention of some of the best literary agents.

I feel it's just a question of timing, and a great domino effect has happened and continues to happen in terms of digital sales, and self - publishing specifically — romance succeeded first, then thrillers, and so on, and literary is catching on now.

There are now Critique.org workshops for every genre and every form of creative endeavor — songwriting, music performance, art, photography, film & video, web site design, apps, screenplays, comics, non-fiction writing, literary and mainstream writing, childrens, mysteries, thrillers, romance, and of course «Critters,» our first workshop, for science fiction, fantasy and horror... — you name it, there's a workshop for it.

They cover a wide spread of styles and genres: romance and erotica, paranormal, fantasy and science fiction, thriller and horror, literary and memoir.

I write psychological thrillers, literary fiction and historical romance My first novel «The Eloquence of Desire» a historical romance was se in Malaysia during the 1950's during a civil war.

Natchez Burning is unlike most thrillers in its length and the fact that it will remind some of classic literary fiction.

Love literary thrillers: The Salinger Contract by Adam Langer It seems fitting that the author and narrator of this book have the same name; it is, after all, a mystery about writers and writing.

- Kirkus «This playful literary thriller from Langer (The Thieves of Manhattan) about the imperiled state of writers and books in the 21st century suggests Paul Auster's New York Trilogy with a lighter touch.»

Emily Schultz's beautifully realized novel is a mix of satire, thriller, and serious literary work.

For fans of Denis Johnson and Peter Matthiessen, a literary thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction.

When you're looking at 20 millions users, yes, a lot of our content tends to be teen fiction, but that's not to say there aren't fantastic literary fiction communities, and science fiction communities, and mystery and thriller.

An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears's highly acclaimed bestseller, has all the compelling elements of a superb literary - historical thriller.

It is a literary thriller in the tradition of The Name of the Rose, Possession and The Secret History.

Graham Greene (1904 - 1991) authored 37 novels, both thrillers such as The Quiet American and literary fiction including The End of the Affair.

A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired surgeon with dementia who clings to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame and unspeakable loss.

For fans of Paul Auster, Raymond Chandler and Graham Greene comes this bold, prize - winning literary thriller.

Like Katniss, she's a natural, lighting from thriller to bodice ripper to fantasy in the space of a few chapters, churning out a powerful, innovative oeuvre without making a big deal about it... She's a literary fusioneer, that rare writer who is all things to all readers.

Story Cartel has a list of books from thrillers to romance novels, literary fiction and non-fiction.

There are many different genres of novel — literary; mystery; thriller; suspense; sci - fi; fantasy; romance; crime; young adult; etc. — and sub-genres which sprout from underneath each genre.

Experienced, thoughtful evaluation and editing of chick lit, crime drama, fantasy, historical, magical realism, mystery, slipstream, sci - fi / fantasy thrillers, and literary works; memoir, poetry, and young adult / juvenile fiction and nonfi...

You would think that this would limit them somewhat in terms of genre, given the social constraints and expectations of women during that period, but they publish a wide range, from memoir through to literary and domestic fiction, thrillers, and even cookery books.

I'm happy to announce that I've just engaged literary agent Sarah Hershman, of Hershman Rights Management LLC, to represent and sell subsidiary rights to my Dylan Hunter thriller series.

Miller's (technically an expat living in Oslo) debut literary thriller is an expert blend of humor and questions of race, memory and time.

The list below brings together some of the most memorable literary thrillers of recent years.

It's a murder mystery and a literary thriller, a multilayered nonlinear narrative and a psychological portrait of the dark side of human nature.

Unlike more straightforward historical mysteries (Lindsay Davis, et al.), the literary / historical thriller is only loosely tied to the crime that drives the surface action; the focus of the novel is likely to be internal rather than external, with the crime serving as a catalyst to thought, rather than thought providing a solution to the crime.

Dobyns is an award - winning poet and the author of the wonderful Saratoga mystery series; occasionally, he combines both his poetic and popular sides in literary thrillers that plumb depths far below the surface of the crimes they describe.

Readers of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.