Sentence examples for setting a novel from inspiring English sources
Setting a novel in fifth-century-B.C.
When did you start thinking about setting a novel in Saudi Arabia?
There are risks, of course, in setting a novel in the recent past.
The obvious problem with setting a novel in ancient Rome is that there are already so many of them.
It's true that setting a novel in a world of extravagance and glitz lowers the bar for pathos considerably.
Instead his approach to literature is expansive, setting a novel in larger contexts, and often, as in the case of DeLillo, the technique is highly successful.
So why would you set a novel there?
So this is the first time I've set a novel entirely in one country.
JG Ballard set a novel, High Rise, in a 40-storey development in London's Docklands where the residents descend into barbarism.
To set a novel about relationships specifically in this arena, then, is to court cliche: the minefield of the emotions, lovers as combatants -- that old, exhausted vocabulary.
