Sentence examples for personal novel from inspiring English sources

The Redbreast is my most personal novel.

This "very personal novel," Gazmuri explains, will open with a man learning that his first girlfriend has died.

For this is an intensely personal novel, drawing on first-hand observations and atomising with the merciless eye of youth the growing follies, frustrations and eccentricities associated with the tragicomedy of extreme old age.

With his directorial debut Indignation, Schamus aims for the rafters by adapting Philip Roth's complex and deeply personal novel about a stalwart young man coming into his own in closed-minded 50s America.

It was only through this process, of seeing another story that had a "full arc" through to completion, he said, that he was able to return to Nora Webster and finish what he started – a highly personal novel drawing on his own experiences of grief and provincial life in 60s Ireland.

Published in 1953, The Long Good-bye was arguably Chandler's best, certainly his most personal novel and turned upon his knight-errant private eye Philip Marlowe going down the mean streets of Los Angeles to defend the reputation of his friend Terry Lennox, who's accused of murdering his wife before apparently committing suicide in Mexico.

He wrote sweeping historical sagas, intensely personal novels of self-discovery, and at least one scathing political parable.

Dasgupta is at his best as a cool, unillusioned analyst of futility, both ideological and personal; his novel, which is full of chemistry and Ulrich's failed ambitions as a chemist, becomes a kind of handbook for the study of useless energy dispersal, of farcical entropy.

I've been writing since college, and so I entered motherhood knowing my craft, working during their naps, freelancing to help with family costs, and indulging my greatest personal passion: novel writing.

Subjects of classical mythology attest to El Greco's humanistic learning and his brilliantly personal and novel approach to traditional themes.

This was one of my greatest personal adventures, this novel.