Sentence examples for sparkling novel from inspiring English sources
Everyone in this sparkling novel is wily, smart or even smarter.
Time is the goon in this sparkling novel of change and decay that ranges from the late 70s to the near future.
Ozick's taut, sparkling novel is billed as a retelling of Henry James's "The Ambassadors," and she transforms James's cultivated Europe into a "scarred and exhausted" landscape teeming with the ghosts of war.
"Foreign Bodies," by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $26) Ozick's taut, sparkling novel is billed as a retelling of Henry James's "The Ambassadors," and she transforms James's cultivated Europe into a "scarred and exhausted" landscape teeming with the ghosts of war.
"Girlish" has to be the most overused word to describe Swedish singer Li's debut album, 2008's sometimes saccharine, sometimes sparkling Youth Novels.
At the time of Ms. Harrison's death, she had read early, sparkling reviews of her novel and had a sense that it could be a success, said her husband, John Massey, a visual artist.
The Duffys think of themselves as Jewish, and certainly the novel sparkles with funny old Yiddishisms (I was particularly charmed by Calisher's translation of "mach Shabas gemit" as "So make a holiday of it," which still manages to sound as Old World as my grandmother); but, as Lev's Israeli fiancée notes, some who are more observant might call the family "Sunday Jews".
Sparkling Stilettos, the recent first novel by glamour model Jess Wright, a star of the reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex, was openly written in collaboration with a ghostwriter, and such honesty is now often judged the best policy.
Readers devoted to Nancy Mitford's sparkling, acerbic novels will recognize a moment of sheer hilarity on "Masterpiece Theater" when Linda Radlett asks the nurse to take her newborn daughter from the room.
Austen's archly deprecating description of Pride and Prejudice (one of Tyler's favourite novels) as 'light and bright and sparkling' might well apply to this author.
