Sentence examples for a big novel from inspiring English sources

"It's basically like a big novel, and novels take a long time".

A big novel stands out from the crowd on the new fiction table, demanding attention with its ostensible swaggering gravitas.

I was writing a different book entirely and it was going to be a big novel, spanning continents and time.

"The Casual Vacancy," described by the publisher as "a big novel about a small town," will be released on Sept. 27 by Little, Brown and Company.

This is a big novel, whose paralysed protagonist looks back on his fragmented past over 30 years - mirroring the history of modern China itself.

"After 1Q84," he says, "I was so exhausted … Usually when I'm exhausted by writing a big novel, I write a set of short stories.

It needs a bigger novel to carry it.

In every way, it is a bigger novel than John Crow's Devil; epic in scale, and written with far more narrative power and lyricism.

Not long after finishing A Little Life I started a different big novel, and in reading it had an almost precisely inverse experience.

While living there Wharton would write a book a year, including the Big Novel that would launch her into fame and prosperity, The House of Mirth.

In "Union Atlantic" an immensely talented young writer attempts to write a big, splashy novel with Tom Wolfeian ambitions — a novel set mainly in the early years of this millennium and flirting with issues like Wall Street corruption and class warfare.