Sentences with phrase «with lyrical prose»

With its lyrical prose and confident grace, A Free Life is a luminous addition to the works of one of the preeminent writers in America today.

Dark passages about the thousands of displaced souls struggling to survive — and retake their freedom — alternate with lyrical prose that defines the strength of the human connection.

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Yet, what he saw he saw in a holy fullness that most of us now miss, and his lyrical prose is filled with biblical echoes.

She also writes my favorite kind of book club books: They have lyrical prose, with characters and situations that make you think.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, given Woodson's background not only as a novelist but also as a poet, Another Brooklyn is told in spare, lyrical prose, with a surface simplicity that belies its underlying narrative strength and emotional heft.

In BookPage, reviewer Jillian Quint writes, «Erdrich is a muscular and fearless writer, and she explores her characters with both compassion and criticism and through lyrical and visceral prose.»

A work of bold, lyrical beauty, telling detail and compelling characterization — at once cheerful and thoughtful, playful and profound — and written in a unique prose style that metamorphoses brilliantly with the passage of time, 26a will surely be one of the most - talked - about novels of this year and many years to come, and its remarkable author, Diana Evans, welcomed gratefully into the highest order of literary achievement.

As with Dave Robicheaux, Burke's more famous series hero, Hackberry's demons occasionally weigh down the reader, too, but just when we feel ourselves losing patience with Hack and his colossally self - destructive violent outbursts, Burke wins us over yet again with another fusillade of lyrical, deeply moving prose that makes us feel the beating hearts of all his characters, demon - wracked though they may be.

Al - Mohaimeed's prose is taut and yet lyrical, evoking the harsh beauty of the desert landscape in spare sentences rich with vivid imagery.

With complex, sympathetic characters and vibrant, lyrical prose, Park reminds readers about loyalty, sacrifice, friendship, family and, above all, the enduring power of first love.

With breathtaking imagery and lyrical prose, Diffenbaugh makes Letty's growth from a troubled young mother to a responsible woman who learns to put her children first, but also allows herself the possibility of love, entirely believable; hers is a hard - won victory you will cheer even as you wish this graceful, moving book would never end.»

A writer whose «unflinching yet lyrical prose» O Magazine recently compared to Toni Morrison, Bond might just have penned the breakout novel of the year with Ruby, a period drama set in rural Texas.

With her celebrated lyrical prose and haunting imagery, Urquhart's A Map of Glass is a skillful exploration of love, loss, and the transitory nature of place.