He hasn't tried to make the novel more respectable, intellectual, or realistic.
"The wealth of intellectual ideas can make the novel feel dense.
Instead he wanted to learn just enough to make the novel plausible.
Instead, it's the author's shrewd manipulation of imagery that seems to make the novel work.
Mr. Carroll, in turn, was determined to make the novel an American best seller.
These carefully observed and beautifully described moments put flesh on the bones of Itani's plot and make the novel breathe.
That means, unfortunately, that Arnold's "Wuthering Heights" can never really lift off; it can't represent the spiritual feelings that make the novel more than a melodramatic love story.
They are two of the richest characters Mr Roth has created, heartbreaking and believable, and they make the novel one of his finest.
Lowry could not make the novel come together; Margerie edited and suggested, Malcolm rewrote and rewrote, and the book slid sideways.
I didn't think any of my characters would be poetry readers, but I tried to make the novel Whitmanesque in its pan-sensual celebration of the urban throng.
New York's control freaks have the egos and resources for prolonged war when they make the novel discovery that they can't always have their own way.
