Written in spare and dispassionate prose, the slim volume became a classic work of literature about the Third Reich.
In her lifetime, Beryl was often described as a miniaturist, the author of slim, devastating narratives, and prose that was pared to the bone.
This slim volume of experimental prose examines motherhood, grief and the complex ways that both these states of being tint even our most mundane experiences.
But this still slim book, with its flat prose (at least, outside the language of illness) and two-dimensional characters whose inner lives are only skimmed in adulthood, doesn't work as fiction.
Despite its shrewd bits, this slim book also has longueurs and repetitions, and Ballard's prose had lost, by the end, a bit of its elastic snap.
(Ages 10 and up) In the outpouring of books about 9/11, this slim collection of stories and essays stands out for its rich prose, its unusual reporting, its search for context, its reminder of wonders.
Give or take a few punctuation marks, Sharp Teeth could just as easily have been written in prose, though that would have resulted in a far slimmer volume.
Just before he died, my grandfather wrote a slim little book called "Last Boat to New York," which laid out, in typically sparse nordic prose, the mechanics of his unlikely escape to the USA.
It's just a slim youngster compared to our burly and venerable Chicago Manual of Style, but the little volume has influenced the prose of many an undergrad.
In "Catching Fire" he has delivered a rare thing: a slim book — the text itself is a mere 207 pages — that contains serious science yet is related in direct, no-nonsense prose.
