Sentence examples for novel immigrant from inspiring English sources

That rush jump-started the fortunes of the Trump family and set in motion a story reminiscent of The Godfather or a great American novel: Immigrant grit and hustle begets a thriving family business run by a succession of ruthless, cunning, single-minded men.

The agency now says it shows a lawyer named Henry Roth, not the author of "Call It Sleep," the classic novel of immigrant life.

If The Tortilla Curtain – Boyle's excellent, raging 1995 novel about immigrants in contemporary California – is his Grapes Of Wrath, World's End is his East Of Eden.

Books I've just read Chris Cleave's The Other Hand, a sensational novel about immigrants to Britain, which works on several levels.

Mr. Eifman had definitely done his research, seeing movies and reading books about early-20th-century New York, notably "Call It Sleep," Henry Roth's poetic novel about immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and listening to popular music of the era.

—The Black Echo The Tortilla Curtain, Boyle's raging novel about immigrants in contemporary California, received high praise from PatLux as a novel that encapsulates many of contemporary Los Angeles's troubling contradictions: It took me months to get it out of my head.

In this novel, an alienated immigrant grad student befriends a volatile immigrant taxi driver.

As in many novels about immigrants, two of the significant issues throughout are money and food.