Sentence examples for novel seeking from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

With four years of American university studies and more than 10 years of professional work experience behind her, she is currently writing her second novel, seeking publication for her first, as well as seeking an entry-level publishing, writing, or film-related role.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.