It is scintillating in its descriptions and ideas, and has a bucket load of Marcus's trademark experimentalism.
It is an old-fashioned, almost self-indulgent narrative, and thus rich in its descriptions of characters, events and landscapes (it is also admirably illustrated).
No one can say what love is in any precise way, yet we know it – know it so powerfully that we recognise any false notes in its descriptions.
It is spectacular in its own right — not just in its descriptions but in its images, culled from bullfighting's rich visual history.
Its descriptions of the high life are unintentionally hilarious.
Yesterday each side shaded its descriptions to suit its own goal.
Still, the commission was hardly glowing in its descriptions of Pakistan.
With its descriptions of adultery, violence, poverty, attempted abortion even, the novel caused a thrilled uproar.
The piece was written half a century ago, but many of its descriptions still ring true.
Its descriptions of the mind-numbing bureaucracy he encountered behind the Iron Curtain feel oddly familiar.
The first for its descriptions of the building of the RC Harris water treatment plant in Toronto.
