Sentence examples for curious novel from inspiring English sources

"Someone to Run With" is a curious novel, an uneasy hybrid.

You can see this baleful influence in books like Ross King's "Ex-Libris," a curious novel that manages to be both energetic and fustian at once.

He was, after all, just 11 years old in 1903 when a curious novel called "Gee-Boy" — which also alludes to the aesthetic properties of cellar door — was published by the Shakespeare scholar Cyrus Lauron Hooper.

This is a curious novel, not so much in its subject matter, which is dependably Ackroydian, as in the schematic way it negotiates between its subject matter and the reader.

Set in the near-future -- 2052, to be exact -- Bill Broun's curious novel follows a homeless man around London as he contemplates freeing animals from London's zoo.

The presence of all major constituents of the classical pathway, including elements never found outside the liver is curious and novel.

It is curious that a novel about a group of deeply awful people should still fascinate.

One such was the major work devoted to his curious calling-a novel "Goll by a U. of Chicago professor.

Which might seem curious considering the novel is the almost unbearably bleak story of a young man destined for failure.

"I think her fan base will be curious about a novel that is targeted at them now they've grown up.

"It's a curious and absorbing novel, almost unique in its fantastic and ironic tone," Anthony Boucher wrote in the Book Review.