Sentence examples for intimate novel from inspiring English sources

In this intimate novel, an unnamed narrator untangles the skeins of her mother's life as it draws to a close.

The protagonist of this elegant yet intimate novel is ensnared in several webs: his Jewish family, Chicago politics, the culture of the '80s.

Hollywood looks a lot different from inside the trunk of a car, which is where Hedda Chase, "one of the most powerful women in town," finds herself in Elizabeth Brundage's painfully intimate novel of psychological suspense, A STRANGER LIKE YOU (Plume, paper, $15).

Most major reviews have ignored or explained away this aspect of Purity, seeing in it instead a "fleet-footed... intimate novel," a "piercingly brilliant" examination of how we live now.

Set largely in small-town and rural Canada and often focused on the lives of girls and women, her tales have the swoop and density of big, intimate novels, mapping the crevices of characters' hearts with cleareyed Chekhovian empathy and wisdom.

I sat down with Richard Kramer, the Emmy and multiple Peabody award-winning writer, in his North Hollywood home to talk about writing his intimate debut novel, These Things Happen.

This achingly sad, occasionally grotesque story of family secrets, sexual longings and small-town malaise, told through drawings, paper cutouts and miniature models, has more in common with intimate graphic novels like David Small's "Stitches" or Alison Bechdel's "Fun Home" than with any live-action indie melodrama I can think of.

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Then skip ahead to his most intimate and autobiographical novel, "A Perfect Spy" (1986), about his own con-man father.

In 2007, he came out with "Michael Tolliver Lives," which he insisted was not a new installment but rather an "intimate and simple novel of daily life in the Castro".

The group they led was marked by a passionate devotion to the history of cinema, especially Hollywood cinema; an obsession with the singular role of the director as a film's creator; and the transformation of the industrial craft of the movies into an art form as pliable, personal, and intimate as the novel.