Sentences with phrase «second novel»

This was a most excellent second novel in what is a weird and intriguing series.

But there are a few other anticipated second novels on the horizon in 2010.

It's official: We can knock one title off our list of long - awaited second novels.

Here are a few authors who hit it out of the park the first time around — and whose second novels we're still hoping to read one day.

The best promotion in the world is a strong second novel, followed by an even better third novel.

The unpublished second novel that may never see the other end of a query letter.

How this plays out is the substance of this wonderfully original, character - driven second novel.

Gilead is the long - hoped - for second novel by one of our finest writers, a hymn of praise and lamentation to the God - haunted existence that Reverend Ames loves passionately, and from which he will soon part.

The eagerly anticipated second novel from the author of Broken for You - a national best seller and selection of the Today Show Book Club - is a sweeping, gorgeously crafted family story set in the American heartland.

In this light, and in regard to this issue's Spotlight on First Novels, I've been thinking about second novels.

Based on the best - selling second novel of Suzanne Collins» award - winning trilogy, with a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael DeBruyn and directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins as, against all odds, Katniss and her fellow tribute Peeta have returned home after surviving The Hunger Games.

A much - anticipated second novel which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny.

For example, in The History of Love (2005), Krauss's second novel after Man Walks Into a Room (2002), Leo Gursky, a young Polish man fell in love with a beautiful woman named Alma in the late 1930s.

Wicked City, on sale this week, is Alaya Johnson's second novel set in an alternate 1920s New York City, where vampires and demons haunt the Lower East Side.

I hadn't tried to publish my first novel — I didn't feel it was strong enough to withstand the tough scrutiny of agents and editors — but I was happy with my recently completed second novel, and I felt that it had real potential.

Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo by Boris Fishman New York writer Boris Fishman's perceptive second novel takes on the topic of adoption, with results that are equal parts hilarious and heartwarming.

Teddy Wayne's hilarious and heartbreaking second novel follows Jonny, an 11 - year - old pop sensation (think Bieber fever), as he tours across the country.

My recently launched second novel, Black Flagged, is also benefiting from the additional attention paid to my other title.

This stunning second novel from Philipp Meyer (following his critically praised debut, American Rust) combines epic storytelling, Texas tragedy and raw, powerful writing.

Zumas» masterful second novel is the most timely and realistic of the bunch: In this world, in - vitro fertilization is banned, abortion is illegal and the Personhood Amendment grants rights to every embryo.

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.

In this reader's opinion Gable's second novel deserves a strong 5 rating.

Listen Up Philip is written and directed by Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel) Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his sure - to - succeed second novel.

The titular hero of Jonasson's quirky second novel goes around the world and back again on a madcap journey from 1960s Soweto to modern - day Sweden that will thrill fans of Forrest Gump or François Lelord.

That's the point of departure for New York writer Boris Fishman's perceptive second novel, Don't Let My Baby Do Rodeo.

Infinite Home By Kathleen Alcott Riverhead • $ 16 • ISBN 9780399576027 The residents of a rundown Brooklyn brownstone band together to protect their aging landlady from her scheming son in Alcott's sensitive and critically acclaimed second novel.

She thinks the best decision she and her husband made when they moved to Gainesville, Florida, was not to own a television.She wrote the first drafts of her beautifully chiaroscuro second novel Arcadia in notebooks and on legal pads before reluctantly turning on...

In the case of Arcadia, her beautifully chiaroscuro second novel, her movement from momentary despair about contemporary life to a more transcendent view, she says, was a slow process.

The author's long - awaited second novel is a sweeping, fictionalized history of her Mexican American family.

Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestseller Everything I Never Told You, and whose second novel Little Fires Everywhere will be published by Little Brown later this year.

An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray Murray is best known for his excellent second novel, Skippy Dies, but his charming, Wodehous - ian debut, set in a crumbling Irish mansion, is a social satire for the ages.

Set in a small town in South Carolina, Rash's engaging second novel tells the story of a family marked by tragedy and the unique battle they engage in to achieve closure.

SEASON OF SALT AND HONEY: Combining the practicality of a cook book (the novel includes nine recipes for mouthwatering Italian dishes) with fiction, Tunnicliffe's second novel delves into the importance of family, forgiveness and — of course — food.

But this adaptation of Travel Channel host Marcus Sakey's second novel barely made the big screen last month day and date with Video On Demand, was hammered by critics, and today makes a hasty trip to Blu - ray and DVD as practically direct - to - video fare.

As a teenager, he wrote a novel that became a massive best - seller — apparent because a decade later he lives in a gorgeous, airy, sunny home in the Hollywood hills — but the pressure to write an equally compelling second novel has stymied his creativity.

Published in 2009, Juliet, Naked has been compared to Hornby's second novel High Fidelity -LSB-...]

Sally and Roy have fought about money and his unwritten second novel for so long they've lost interest in each other.

«At once tragic and madcap, Sharpe's second novel offers an acidly funny portrait of a «diminished nuclear unit» coping with its patriarch's pharmacologically induced stroke.»

Jean Kwok's entertaining second novel, Mambo in Chinatown, thus breaks no new ground, except perhaps that it is her father, not her mother, who proves the protagonist's foil.

Emma Straub's delightful second novel, The Vacationers, is the best work yet from this Brooklyn - based writer, who previously penned the quirky short story collection Other People We Married and the historical novel Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures.

That one of the recurring characters in The Portable Veblen is a squirrel tells you much about the experience of reading Elizabeth McKenzie's clever second novel.

In his moving, funny and compulsively readable second novel, The Book of Joe, Jonathan Tropper proves that while you can go home again, actually doing so can be colossally upsetting to all involved.

Stone's second novel combines an intriguing plot with well developed three dimensional characters.

But readers will find her highly entertaining and heartfelt second novel, Mimi Malloy, at Last!

Bich Minh Nguyen's enthralling second novel, Pioneer Girl, offers a version of the immigrant experience that's different from the one we usually read about: the Middle America Asian - American experience.

First up is The Maramon Convention (Scribner), the forthcoming second novel from award - winning writer Abraham Verghese, whose Cutting for Stone was one of our Readers» Choice: Best Books of 2009.

Set in the affluent, progressive Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ng's second novel introduces the Richardson family, who rent a house to artist and single mother Mia Warren and her teenage daughter, Pearl.