Sentence examples for smart novel from inspiring English sources

Murray's smart novel, set in a Dublin boys' school, is an elegy to lost youth.

Lodge's smart novel reimagines Wells's life and his many tormented relationships with women, including Rebecca West.

'Face-Time' Erik Tarloff's breezy, smart novel "Face-Time" is more entertaining.

These crumbling, unstable, "loveliest, most ridiculous" objects decorate Trevor Cole's smart novel, providing evidence of something just as compelling as criminal wrongdoing: character.

There are times when you wonder if "Reamde" is the smartest dumb novel you have ever read or the dumbest smart novel.

Terrorist builds to a tense conclusion; throughout, this smart novel takes telling shots at both religious fundamentalism and America's segregated, consumerist society.

Mr Jacobson is best when asserting the merits of a smart comic novel.

A smart first novel about the effects of a suicide on a family.

Murray's smart second novel, set in a Dublin boys' school, is an elegy to lost youth.

Or you might conclude, as Lodge does in his smart, engaging novel, that Wells was "a man of parts".

The protagonist of this smart first novel suspects her husband of a midlife affair and has one of her own.