Only one sentence in the novel attempts description - something anatomical.
Fiona Maazel's debut novel attempts a doubled apocalyptic vision of our American times.
Similarly, the realist novel attempted to dissolve whatever smacked of literariness.
The novel attempts to follow in the footsteps of the greatest war novels – depicting diverse characters flung together, far from home.
The novel attempts a pop-spiritual association by ascribing to Bird a passion for the music and life style of the jazz great Charlie Parker.
Crofton is both antiheroic in sentiment and heroic in act, and in a subtle way the novel attempts to be a tale of each, shot and recoil.
Where the Great American Novel attempts to map the moral landscape of post-war America, she captures the moments that shape individual lives.
In the period 1830 80, prose was dominated by two opposing trends: the historical novel attempted to present a glorious picture of the Greek past while novels set in the present tended to be satirical or picaresque in nature.
Couched as the diary of one Logan Mountstuart writer, seducer, spy, and all-around charlatan Boyd's novel attempts a panorama of twentieth-century history with its hero constantly at the edge of the frame.
What some critics deprecated as a pulpy, cartoonish approach to violence in Neuromancer, for instance, is part of how the novel attempts to mime the anaesthetising effect of electronic saturation on a human mind.
