Sentence examples for substantial novel from inspiring English sources

Christopher Sorrentino's Trance (Cape) - which revolves around the Patty Hearst kidnapping - is a resounding and substantial novel.

In one extended period of Baldwin's life, a collection of poems or a substantial novel seemed to appear almost every year.

Fitzgerald's idea is alive and well here, in an unexpectedly substantial novel that also summons the Main Street of Sinclair Lewis.

– the surface pleasantries of a reality which is infinitely worse, unanswerably better?" But clever as such descriptions are, and although the Naples nostalgia may be heady, they hardly make for a substantial novel.

Yet Miller adroitly suggests that he was right, that In Cold Blood exalted and yet finished him as a writer, unable to complete another substantial novel and blocked until his death from heart failure in 1984.

To judge from the steady stream of Rimbaldiana that has appeared over the past decade — which includes, most recently, a new translation of "Illuminations," by the distinguished American poet John Ashbery, and a substantial novel that wrestles with the great question of why Rimbaud stopped writing — the allure shows no sign of fading.

But even after four substantial novels – one of them, Black Swan Green (2006), semi-autobiographical – it's hard to get a sense of his artistic personality.

Updike produced an autobiography, Self-Consciousness, and four substantial novels in the 1980s, one of which, The Witches of Eastwick, Updike's take on the trend of 1980s feminism, was made into a notably successful movie.

Substantial, compelling, and unimpeachably well written, it is a fine and classically satisfying novel.

A substantial and novel regional source of money to fund these initiatives could be provided by "people's pensions".

"Is it possible you haven't scattered your father's ashes because you need him in some way?" the wife in the screenplay asks, though that bluntness would be unthinkable in a more substantial, ambitious novel.