Sentence examples for startling novel from inspiring English sources

And yet, in this startling novel, even that distance between Charlie and Helen is moving.

Fifty-three Polish Cold Blood Horses (CBHs) were tested with the battery of behavioural tests involving passive and active contact with humans, handling, startling, novel object and surface tests.

In "The Driver's Seat" (1970) — a slim, startling novel whose heroine is invented only so that she can be killed — the narrative eye impassively snaps one bleached Polaroid after another.

And with Crash, his startling novel of 1973, he tackles the evident intersection of our prevailing psychological, philosophical, sexual and technological violence - so engrained is it in our modern age - in a way that nobody else has managed.

In "The Driver's Seat" (1970)—a slim, startling novel whose heroine is invented only so that she can be killed the narrative eye impassively snaps one bleached Polaroid after another.

Alex Connolly, the 10-year-old boy who shares narrative duties with his psychiatrist in Carolyn Jess-Cooke's startling novel, THE BOY WHO COULD SEE DEMONS (Delacorte, $26), is quite insistent on these points: he isn't crazy, he hasn't watched too many horror movies, and he doesn't have an imaginary friend.

When something is startling and novel, "we don't always have the reference points to absorb and digest it," Rubin told me.

IJ Kay's Mountains of the Moon (Jonathan Cape £16.99) is a startling first novel, exhilarating though full of pain and damage.

Nielsen felt able to be so frank with me because of one thing: I had read his former lover's startling first novel, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, and written about it on my blog.

In her startling first novel, "The Longshot," the cage was literal, as an aging mixed martial arts fighter trained to re-enter the ring for a comeback, goaded by his gruff trainer.

Though for many readers the notions about Christian history in "The Da Vinci Code" seem new and startling, the novel introduces to a popular audience some of the debates that have gripped scholars of early Christian history for decades.