Sentence examples for prior novel from inspiring English sources

They fulfill the charge offered by Roth himself in a prior novel, "The Ghost Writer," in which an elder writer praises the work of Roth's young quasi-alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman: " 'I don't mean style.

Unfortunately for those who have not read this prior novel, Coleman gives scant information here as to what caused this vendetta.

He received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for his prior novel, "The Book of Night Women," a story of 19th century Jamaican slaves.

The three prior novels are intertwined, with catastrophic noir force.

His prior novels had been set in his own time, the years after the First World War.

If you're unfamiliar with Millet's work, six prior novels and a story collection, be advised that it is strange, alternately quirky and profound.

As in his prior novels, Wilcox's narrative, which skitters like a stone thrown expertly across a country pond, delivers a high quotient of whimsy — Pickens's assistant supplements his income by making office visits to floss his customers' teeth.

Robert Stone is deservedly celebrated for his treatments, in six prior novels ("A Hall of Mirrors," "Dog Soldiers," "A Flag for Sunrise," "Children of Light," "Outerbridge Reach," "Damascus Gate"), of desperate characters in desperate circumstances, presentations typically arriving as long, thorough, comprehensively detailed, meaty texts.

The book is regarded as more humorous than most of Grisham's prior novels.

Because Griffin had not appeared in the two prior novels, Gould developed Jumper: Griffin's Story as a backstory of the character's early childhood before the film.

Gattis, the author of two prior novels, will appear at the L.A. Times Festival of Books at 12 30 p.m. April 19 on the panel "Untold Stories" with Laila Lalami, Atticus Lish and Nina Revoyr.