As she has shown in her novels "The Condition" and "Faith," Ms. Haigh is one of the most subtle, incisive fiction writers currently exploring the dynamics of big, secretive families, the kinds whose members are much more apt to betray private thoughts than speak them out loud.
Thus, Crispin's work confronts viewers with a subtle, speculative fiction survival-kit that anticipates a chaotic and unstable future.
The authenticity of her story isn't in doubt, but is there any way in which her subtle half-fictions and translocations and alchemy with characters - her imaginative skills, in fact - make life in Lark Rise seem more attractive than it truly was?
Chaudhuri has made the best case for his aesthetic preferences in his own measured, subtle, light-footed fiction.
The Accursed by the prolific Joyce Carol Oates is apparently a gothic novel but turns out, I am told, to be a subtle novel about fiction.
Though, to be fair to Thomson, who is a writer of subtle and stylish fiction, I doubt he'd ever begin a novel in quite such a socking-it-to-you way.
Subtle, shimmering short fiction; sprawling family sagas; searing portraits of social trauma: 2016 had it all.
The persona or mask in his prose fictions, subtle and persuasive, was admirably serviceable for a writer devoted to an intense privacy.
Wagner in the Desert begins the collection with one of what must be one of the best, and most subtle lists in recent fiction.
James's dismay at this condition gave to his subtle and compressed late fiction, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904), much of its gravity and air of disenchantment.
