Goncharov has a lovely narrative voice as well, which feels familiar and somehow kind.
However, superfluous symbolism — lots of circles, and statues of the long-dead — feels clumsily overt, and interrupts the flow of an otherwise lovely narrative.
And the book offers a lovely narrative of escape for a working-class girl with a literary sensibility and sexuality that her small Lancastrian town cannot handle.
For the last two decades the pair has been using the blueprints of old-time country and western balladry to create dark but often lovely narratives set in the present. .
Strawberry Spring a lovely unreliable narrative about a serial killer terrorising university students.
Presumably, I say, pointing at the teapot, he could just take something like that, and make a lovely winding narrative out of it?
Ms. Demick's book is a lovely work of narrative nonfiction, one that follows the lives of six ordinary North Koreans, including a female doctor, a pair of star-crossed lovers, a factory worker and an orphan.
Well, in a lovely bit of narrative synergy, last night we briefly saw Betty reading Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, a 1960 Fitzgerald collection featuring, yep, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.
In his review of the book in The New York Times, Dwight Garner wrote: "Ms. Demick's book is a lovely work of narrative nonfiction, one that follows the lives of six ordinary North Koreans, including a female doctor, a pair of star-crossed lovers, a factory worker and an orphan.
"That gives a lovely elusiveness to the narrative and pushes the audience to think.
Cave's adopted home of Brighton may or may not inform Wide Lovely Eyes's bleak narrative of closed-down funfairs and mermaids hung by their hair.
