Sentence examples for massive novel from inspiring English sources

It really takes us back to Pynchon and all those — John Barth as well — who would write the massive novel, because the massiveness is some kind of a statement about completeness: to get it all in somewhere.

JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Eliot's last (massive) novel.

Some Came Running (1958) was mainstream entertainment, drawn from James Jones's massive novel.

For five years afterwards he struggled with a follow-up, a massive novel called Fountain City, which he eventually abandoned.

An Italian-American, overlong WAR AND PEAC (1956), though sensibly compressed from Leo Tolstoy's massive novel, has flaws.

Moore has kept that promise; his massive novel Jerusalem, which is published in September, will feature Joshua's endorsement as a blurb.

Thomas Pynchon, hero to insecure English majors all across college campuses, wrote in his 1998 massive, monolithic novel Mason & Dixon, Who claims Truth, Truth abandons.

Despite the legendary slowness of his process, and his even more legendary "reclusiveness," Pynchon has delivered seven books, including four massive novels.

In Sideways, Paul Giamatti's character carts his massive, unreadable novel around everywhere with him.

After her mother's death, the family fell into chaos, which Gertrude described later in her massive 1911 novel "The Making of Americans," and Gertrude found solace in books and food.

Canadian-born, raised in Yorkshire but resident in New Zealand (which country's 1860s Gold Rush inspired her massive, virtuosic novel), Eleanor Catton in her own background almost embodies the now-defunct Booker remit of British-and-Commonwealth fiction.