I'm thinking, for example, of Sigrid Nunez's fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind, a dark, brilliant tale centred on two college classmates in the 1960s.
It is dark, dark, dark, brilliant and will upset the fuck out of people.
The author of the dark, brilliant novel The Kept shares what's hidden inside the heart -- and mind -- of a guy who's finally fallen for that one amazing woman.
RICHARD LEWIS: Rodney Dangerfield once told me I was close to him, which was like being close to a tornado, dark, brilliant he said, "Hey, you know what you're doing.
Chin said there was a dark yet brilliant "harmony".
What emerged was not the serious drama that Peter George had intended, but a dark and brilliant comedy that still informs the way we look at global conflict.
It asks pupils to illustrate key events from each chapter, such as the dark and brilliant move of making Mrs Twit think she is shrinking by gluing bits of wood to the bottom of her walking stick.
Either way, you may want to avoid pies, especially those sold in Fleet Street, once you have seen Jonathan Kent's dark, bilious, brilliant production of Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical (inspired by a Victorian penny dreadful).
Happily, as readers we know the contrary, and indeed, as we turn the pages of this dark and brilliant book, we feel ourselves to be in the presence of a noble act.
Goodwin is thrilling to watch, because she's dangerous, a dark, albeit brilliant force that could just as easily fill a stadium as a stage with her powerful presence, quick turns, high kicks, scissor splits, and deep contralto.
But those films were created by a dark, troubled, brilliant film-maker - a persona replaced, here, by a more statesmanlike figure who prefers to revisit an historical era of childhood which, however tragic and horrifying and traumatised, appears more important, and is the one in which his own innocence was absolute.
