Sentence examples for seductive novel from inspiring English sources

A stirring and seductive novel.

It is a poignant, seductive novel, its range all the more impressive given that English is not Yugoslav-born Obreht's first language.

Last year our reviewer, Valerie Sayers, found this a "slyly seductive" novel that is "light and foamy" though preoccupied with serious subjects like class, responsibility and race.

— Alex Koppelman I've just begun the French writer Henri Bosco's seductive 1945 novel "Le Mas Théotime" ("The Farm Théotime"), which I'm reading in a class at FIAF.

David Martín, the young hero and narrator of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's moody, seductive new novel, "The Angel's Game," is one of those writers who suffer the torments of the damned in the practice of their craft.

But "Chance" is also a vivid, seductive, brilliantly written novel that exhibits Conrad's irony in straight — or meta-Victorian — garb.

Richtel is also a fiction writer, the author of fantastically seductive techno-fictional novels such as Hooked and his latest book, The Cloud, released earlier this month.

The pages of "The Great Gatsby" are suffused with romance and dusted with sexual implication, but perhaps the most intensely and disturbingly erotic scene — the one that distills the novel's seductive blend of desire and sorrow — involves clothes.

In the bustling neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro where Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza sets his Inspector Espinosa novels (so seductive in Benjamin Moser's translations from the Portuguese), "the only real job of the police was to keep the third world from invading the first".

Morrison's sensual novel is a seductive exploration of the different forms love takes and its destructive as well as redemptive powers.

One of the novel's most seductive notions is the idea of virginity of the soul, of the essential self reserved for one's true love.