Sentence examples for novel alone from inspiring English sources

Pity poor befuddled, jinxed Azalea Ives, who opens this novel "alone and lost at a fairground in Devon" in 1982.

In the pages of a Judith Krantz novel alone, it seems, a woman can have it all.

"The novel alone," he says, "could reveal the immense, mysterious power of the pointless," in opposition to the "pre-interpretation" of reality.

YouTube star Zoe Sugg has announced that she is taking a break from the internet after admitting that she did not write her bestselling debut novel alone.

Notwithstanding Kindle downloads and ebooks, that's a lot of dead trees – the Noah graphic novel alone clocks in at more than 250 pages of sumptuous full-colour illustrations.

"A year passed before I could bring myself to say farewell to the We and write a novel alone," Müller explains in an afterword to "The Hunger Angel".

Kelman is joined on the shortlist by Marilynne Robinson, whose three novels and three collections of essays are a study in refined precision, and Spanish poet, novelist and essayist Juan Goytisolo, whose novels alone number more than 20.

Emeritus professor Martin Barker Aberystwyth University John Mullan (Review, 4 April) lives in a fantasy world in which "the Harry Potter novels", alone of all the books he lists, magically wrote themselves.

Mr. Amis said he'd like another week with the complexities of the backward narrative of "Time's Arrow," but would leave "the mess of the first four novels" alone.

All throughout school, there was nothing I enjoyed more than my teachers reading stories I'd scribbled down on scraps of paper, but by the age of 11, I was writing full-length novels alone in my room, storing them on my laptop, where no one else ever laid eyes on them.

Through his Rabbit novels alone, which follow the fluctuating fortunes of high school basketball ace Harry Angstrom from 1960-2001, Updike furnished us with a roadmap of his country's postwar progress, from 50s smalltown conservatism through the upheaval of Vietnam and race relations to complacent and bloated late capitalism, all inked in prose whose airy loveliness consistently astonishes.