Sentences with phrase «prose over plot»
Literary fiction values prose over plot, I might say.
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When Roger saw Green's second film, «All the Real Girls» (2003), at Sundance, he was struck by the director's «gift for moments of acute observation, for dialogue both naturalistic and uninflected, for mood over plot, for poetry over prose.»
This novel has a cast of amusing characters, a plot with a few surprises and is filled with wonderful prose like: «A passing car sent its searchlight - glare crazy and liquid over the sides of the buildings and into the trees, revealing not the colours, the daylight solidity of things, but a world of dark gaps cut from an empty skin of light».
Bright's light, droll tone ably skips over melodramatic pitfalls (and glosses over a few plot elements that strain belief), but when Nick and Adelaide's secrets come out, her sparkling prose becomes unrelentingly sharp.