Sentence examples for novel tries from inspiring English sources

The heroine of Towles's finely observed first novel tries to reinvent herself in 1930s New York.

She knows little of the scientific matters that the novel tries to elucidate.

This second novel tries to be more far-reaching, but it loses something in doing so.

"The novel tries to capture what it means to live between east and west.

Here the novel tries a bit too hard to absolve Lydia, even as it highlights its own implausibility.

So when all is said and done, the heart the novel tries to dissect is the author's own.

It is a big social novel trying hard not to be one - softened DeLilloism.

There we stopped to consult the novel, trying to map Household's account on to the landscape.

When I read a novel, or encounter a poem, or a painting, I will ask myself: what question is the painting, or the novel, trying to answer?

Over the generations, Newark politics had produced its share of showmanship, drama, and even farce; the Booker era represented a novel try at glamour.

Then, in the second and third drafts, I settled into the hard work of writing a novel, trying to make sure the puzzle-like plot all made sense.