Sentence examples for novel lands from inspiring English sources

What's a writer to do after his debut novel lands him in the hot seat for hewing uncomfortably close to the unsavory details of his life?

Pavilion of Women With exotic landscapes, historical turmoil and smoldering glances between lovers, Yim Ho's film, based on Pearl S. Buck's novel, lands somewhere between "The Thorn Birds" and "The King and I".

In the line of literature's holy fools, running from, say, the utterly simple-minded Chance in "Being There" to the bombastically cunning Ignatius J. Reilly in "A Confederacy of Dunces," the protagonist of Patricia Wood's first novel lands somewhere in the middle, not far from Forrest Gump.

The novel lands in UK bookstores on 26 September; the rest of the world will have to wait until 8 October.

Critics were impressed and the novel landed an important literary prize.

Her début novel, "Land of Love and Drowning," which came out this summer, was written partly as an answer to Wouk.

In Ellin's 1944 novel, "Land I Have Chosen," she describes the moment when Anne Brooke, the main character, meets Marco Ghiberti, a young Italian who has just arrived in New York.

The title characters of this clever first novel land in 1899 New York, where their magic often makes more sense than the ways of the humans with whom they now live.

By the time his first novel, Land Without Stars, was published in 1946, Kiely was a leaderwriter on the Irish Independent - his instructions were to "avoid coming to any conclusion about anything".

A homage to Bram Fischer, the defence lawyer for Nelson Mandela's treason trial, Burger's Daughter is Gordimer's most immersively political novel, landing us in the very thick of the anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s.

"Facts sometimes arrive rather awkwardly," the novelist Ursula K. Le Guin wrote in the British newspaper The Guardian, in an otherwise favorable review of his 2009 novel, "Land of Marvels," about intrigue in Mesopotamia on the eve of World War I.