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Cameron Woodhead described it as "confusing" and said it "bore the signs of an author struggling to cope with the demands of novelistic writing".
The rare writer who combines excellent reporting with a knack for novelistic writing about real people, he skillfully traces several interwoven stories of cultural clashes and cross-pollination, all of them pursuing the question of whether America and the Muslim world can ever look past their differences and find understanding.
The most notable distinction is that fairytale fantasies, like other fantasies, make use of novelistic writing conventions of prose, characterization, or setting.
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And so we see the novelist, writing about Himmler, use a rampantly "novelistic" phrase like "The blood rises to his cheeks and he feels his brain swell inside his skull," only to draw attention to its fakery, and to explain why he has left it in.
The attraction of writing novelistic non-fiction - but a major problem for readers of this book - is that not everything necessarily needs to be true or provable.
There are different schools of thought about writing novelistic prose and being seen as an intellectual force.
Nabokov was famously dismissive of novelistic attempts to write directly about contemporary politics, calling it "topical trash".
Voigt, one realizes, is really writing something more quietly novelistic than fablelike in form.
Writing about his own novelistic labors, Amis presents a process that "often seems to consist of nothing but decisions," a self-entrancement during which "busy means fascinated to the point of being incapable of doing anything else".
This "new journalism" Thompson was referring to was a school of writing that combined journalistic research with novelistic technique, style and narrative.
Mr. Lodge is a critic as well as a novelist — he has written frequently about narrative strategies and novelistic tricks of the trade — and his knowledge of craft is very much in evidence in "Deaf Sentence".
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