Mr. Unsworth's books, characterized by prodigious research and propulsive narrative force, have long been renowned in Britain and have gained a broad international following in the last few decades.
The jerkiness of silent film gives way to something like a sixty-frame-a-second stream, and the journal's narrative energy, always prodigious, becomes almost indecent.
Mailer's narrative skills are prodigious, but in the end he has little to tell us that wasn't already uncovered by Priscilla Johnson McMillan in "Marina and Lee," her nonfiction portrait of the troubled couple from 1977.
In the early 1840's, as a whaling seaman not yet embarked on his prodigious literary career, Herman Melville read Owen Chase's "Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex".
Stephen King deserves kudos for his sweeping narrative powers, creative brilliance and prodigious output.
Intimate family narratives were conveyed on a prodigious scale.
Her symphonic landscapes are inflected with myriad accents, cultures, personal narratives — all stored away in a prodigious memory.
The result is "a detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right" that combines "prodigious research with journalistic flair," William Kristol wrote here in 2001.
In the view of literary scholar Greg Kucich, they reveal Mary Shelley's "prodigious research across several centuries and in multiple languages", her gift for biographical narrative, and her interest in the "emerging forms of feminist historiography".
If you wanted to ascribe a narrative arc to this symphony, you could do worse than to imagine a prodigious mountain journey.
