Sentence examples for life novel from inspiring English sources

He refined this approach into a new objectivity in the Pulitzer Prize-winning "true life novel" The Executioner's Song (1979).

At the time, the shock of reading the book — Mailer's "true life novel" about the murderer Gary Gilmore, who chose to die in front of a firing squad — was extreme.

A few weeks before The Executioner's Song appeared, Mailer persuaded his publishers to repackage it as a novel, or rather a "true life novel", along the lines of Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood.

Mikal Gilmore's devastating 1994 memoir, "Shot in the Heart," was part "Brothers Karamazov," part Johnny Cash ballad, and it was a remarkable bookend to Norman Mailer's "true life novel" "The Executioner's Song".

According to the widely accepted model of evolution by gene duplication [ 6], in the first phases of their life novel genes are particularly free to change due to relaxed pressure acting on them.

Nine working groups examined the following areas of CD diagnosis and management: classification of CD; genetics and immunology; diagnostics; serology and endoscopy; follow-up; gluten-free diet; refractory CD and malignancies; quality of life; novel treatments; patient support; and screening for CD.

As is true in life, novels need not tie up everything neatly.

There is that 'only a novel' feeling - that compared to the real events of life, novels are rather trivial things that you recreate yourself with, objects of entertainment.

And so, for a sizeable chunk of my reading life, novels provided pretty much all the nutrition and flavour I needed.

The efficacy of MFA programs has been hotly disputed as of late, as its critics wonder whether it is creating a class of groupthink prose stylists all churning out the same "young white person's guide to life" novels.

He called it a "true-life novel".