In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cotton-top tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychology practice, Smith describes the thousand and one ways that primate mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, and even babysitters care for their offspring, from infancy through young adulthood.
As with his previous books, McKay surmised, "Macintyre has no problem delivering a colourful narrative rich in moral ambiguities".
A slave narrative rich in insight, "The Bondwoman's Narrative" is also enlivened by conventions drawn from both Gothic and sentimental novels.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but balanced between Tony's fingers it was just the final grace note in a narrative so rich in symbolism it could, and would, be deconstructed as thoroughly as any Shakespearean play or Greek tragedy.
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed – these are narratives rich in barbed humour, their technique and vernacular reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of the woman at the bus-stop, the waiter, the hairdresser.
Presented first, The Peony Pavilion from 2008 is a dream in every sense of the word: it employs a loose narrative rich with imagery.
It combines careful historical accounts with broad-ranging interests, leading to a narrative that is rich in fascinating detail...It is written in a nimble and warm style that is distinctive for its lively language and extensive use of metaphor, even if the latter is a double-edged sword, as it can at times obscure the important message.
Mr. Siegel, who won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing at The Los Angeles Times in 2002, has written a work of narrative journalism, rich in detail and relatively light on analysis.
Free of narrative but rich in associations and imagery — Einstein as a madly ecstatic violinist but also as the father of nuclear power — the work unfolded inexorably, its repeated musical phrases creating rhythmic wheels within wheels.
Fortunately, the narrative is rich in tone and character, and Desai has an eye for the comic as well as the grotesque.
Dave's arrival at rock bottom was ironically a habitat rich in narrative; an unfolding hotbed of creativity.
