Mr. Reston's fierce prose has often earned the paper the enmity of real estate developers, as well as a chorus of small-business owners.
Wittig's other works include Le Corps lesbien (1973; The Lesbian Body), a collection of fierce prose poems extolling lesbian love and the female body; the novel Virgile, non (1985; Across the Acheron), a feminist parody of Dante's Divine Comedy; and (with Sande Zeig) the play Le Voyage sans fin (1985; The Constant Journey), a feminist send-up of Don Quixote.
In these pages Ms. Morrison eschews the fierce Faulknerian prose and García Márquez-like flights of surrealism that animated some of her earlier novels, adopting a new, pared-down style that enables her to map the day-to-day lives of her characters with lyrical precision.
Writing in fierce, tactile prose, Mr. Hughes jolts the reader into a visceral appreciation of Goya's art, while at the same time situating Goya's work against the historical backdrop of Spain's harrowing war with Napoleon and the country's sufferings under a series of ineffectual and backward rulers.
In fierce, evocative prose, Groff weaves a suspense story out of a storybook marriage and the secrets troubling it beneath the surface.
To read Munro, and especially classic anthologies such as "The Beggar Maid" and "The Moons of Jupiter," is to enter a world of emotional entanglements in which many generations of a family's history might be squeezed into a few dozen pages of her fierce and passionate prose.
The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them.
"The fierce beauty" of the prose "confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them," Margot Livesey wrote here in 2001.
Joan Didion, right, is to receive the National Book Foundation's annual Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters for "her distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence," the foundation announced yesterday.
But the laconic realism of his prose, the fierce investigation of the soldier's psyche, and his impressionistic use of colour and detail convinced many readers that Crane was a veteran turned novelist.
Seen through her own words, a different woman emerges: still strident, still unapologetic, but with a fierce intelligence and a bludgeoning prose style that will take your breath away.
