Sentence examples for saga spanning from inspiring English sources

Where can I pick up your intergenerational saga spanning the great panoplic expanse of the world from Connecticut all the way to Wall Street?

The House of Blue Mangoes, by an Indian, David Davidar, is a more conventional family saga spanning three generations rooted in, and nourished by, south Indian soil.

Love Is Strange by Joseph Connolly 456pp, Faber, £12.99 Love Is Strange is an amply proportioned family saga spanning the half-century from the mid-1950s thethe present.

The progenitor — and most vivid character — of this multigenerational family saga spanning the years from 1836 to 2012 is Col. Eli McCullough, who will live to be a ripe (or, in his case, positively rank) centenarian.

Dark inheritances are the subject of Norman Mailer's February novel, The Castle in the Forest (Little, Brown), which frames the search for the genesis of Nazi evil as a family saga, spanning the three generations of Hitlers leading up to the birth of young Adolf in 1889.

Her first novel, The Invisible Mountain was a sprawling, intergenerational Latin American saga, spanning over a hundred years of political history in South America.

(Its saga spans four years, myriad delays and multiple bootlegs).

The saga spans five generations of a Texas cattle and oil empire built by the McCullough family.

By dramatising in consecutive chapters events that take place decades apart, Ruge achieves a saga span while avoiding the saga sloth often displayed by chronological treatments, but he refrains from exploiting the potential narrative benefits, such as the license to postpone detail.

Fact is mixed with fantasy in a saga that spans many generations of the Buendía family and plays out in the mythical town of Macondo.

History and fiction mingle throughout this family saga, which spans almost half a century, from Prohibition to the age of television, tracing the lives of the children of Jewish immigrants in New York.