Here he wrote two luminous books on Greece – Mani and Roumeli – and slowly began the trilogy which has now, finally, been completed.
The problem with incandescent or luminous books is that they veer toward the introspective, the arcane or the wise, while I prefer books that go off like a Roman candle.
Like Isabel Wilkerson in her luminous 2010 book on the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns," Carlos presents an individual family history in the hopes that it might speak to the stories of millions of others.
In Hadley's latest ― her seventh, after her luminous 2016 book, The Past ― the British novelist does what she does best: excavate the tensions and traumas that linger in the most seemingly normal families and relationships.
Throughout the evening I kept marveling at what an improbable and exhilarating trip it had been, and when he won I felt so profoundly proud of our country, and of our author, and of the editor who'd read Turow's piece and had the tenacity to pursue the republication of his luminous first book.
The narrator of this luminous and surprising book is stuck in hospital due to an undiagnosed illness when her emotionally distant but strangely soothing mother comes to visit.
On reviews containing the adjective "luminous": "I prefer books that go off like a Roman candle".
The books, luminous adventures that address life after death, religious faith and the complicated intermingling of good and evil, have been translated into 37 languages and sold more than 7 million copies in Britain and the United States alone.
In the poetry I select [in his anthology "A Book of Luminous Things"], I am not seeking an escape from dread but, rather, proof that dread and reverence can exist within us simultaneously.
