Sentence examples for novel seeks from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
While, to a certain extent, Miller's novel seeks to be an ensemble piece, dividing its point of view among a variety of Orthodox characters, it is in narrating Tova's interior life and perceptions that the book's thoughtful, lovely language is most convincing.
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.
All lovers of this slim novel seek to unlock the secret door leading from their own room to the Room on the Rue Montmartre.
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.
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.
