Sentence examples for novel seek from inspiring English sources

All lovers of this slim novel seek to unlock the secret door leading from their own room to the Room on the Rue Montmartre.

Where Dirt Music ended optimistically with a sharing of oxygen, a 'kiss of life', the characters in this novel seek to assert control over their physical selves by withholding breath.

And when the 79-year-old heroine of John Updike's latest novel Seek My Face says "God's non-existence is something I can't get used to, it seems unnatural", it seems the exact opposite of duress.

Funder's novel seeks to control the uncontrollable, as all novels do.

She also wrote a novel, Seeking Air (1978), which was praised by Peter Ackroyd.

But his new novel seeks to propel those characters forward into new and treacherous times.

Simón spends much of this novel seeking, and not finding, glimmers of humor and irony in this new world.

The narrator of Krusoe's unsettling novel seeks a way for the living to get through to the dead.

Against that official narrative, Johnson's novel seeks to tell the singular story of Jun Do, a boy raised in an orphanage called Long Tomorrows.

This accomplished novel seeks out the positive and redemptive: we see a succession of characters cope with the challenges life throws at them – and move on.

The Island by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review) is another first novel seeking the solution to a mystery, but here the puzzle is a mother's reticence over her Cretan upbringing.