(1) I write as someone who has devoted my professional life mainly to other 19th novelists than Dickens.
(2) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(3) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(4) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
(5) Mohammed Hanif, the award winning novelist, also parodied General Zia and his inner circle in his novel, A Case of Exploding Mangoes .
(6) He was about to turn 40; save among a few intellectuals, he was unknown; he had enjoyed next to no success as a novelist and his work as a journalist, while respected, had brought little material reward; he was married and desperate for a child (he believed himself to be infertile); he carried a bullet-wound in his neck from his time fighting in Spain; and he was chronically sick.
(7) Animal Rescue is based on a screenplay by the novelist Dennis Lehane , author of Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River and Shutter Island, all of which have been made into films by Hollywood.
(8) The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) defended the new rules in the face of a growing protest by novelists and other authors against their introduction by the justice secretary, Chris Grayling .
(9) She also spoke of her "suspicion" of memoir as a form: a form that her younger sister the novelist Margaret Drabble – who spoke at the festival on Thursday but was notably absent from Byatt's event – undertook in her 2009 book The Pattern in the Carpet, about the writers' aunt Phyllis.
(10) She speaks to me from her home in California, where she lives with her three youngest children and much-loved husband, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon .
(11) Sampson became the discreet, muttering centre of a web, connected by telephone and letter, telegram and fax, to an astounding cast of world leaders and commentarians, film stars and novelists.
(12) The novelist and critic Tom Bissell has described the protagonist's Jewish lawyer in 2002's Vice City as "an anti-Semitic parody of an anti-Semitic parody", while in the new game one of the main character's daughters has a tattoo that reads "skank", and one mission involves you helping a paparazzo capture a starlet's "low-hanging muff".
(13) It is the difficulty in transmitting the truth of violence.” Last year, Louis, who has been compared to the Norwegian autobiographical novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard , published his second book, Histoire de la Violence (story of violence), based on an incident when he was throttled and raped by an Algerian man he picked up in the street on Christmas Eve.
(14) "What bores us changes with age," says novelist Julian Barnes .
(15) But the Archers themselves said nothing, a policy that they would stick to throughout a day that took the peer and novelist to his parole office in Stockwell, south London, and to the flat where he has elected to live.
(16) Not only is he one of the BBC's most respected and best-paid figures, he is well-connected (his closest friend is the novelist Robert Harris), lives with his TV producer wife and three children in a secluded Oxfordshire village, and his brother is the British ambassador to Spain.
(17) • Amitav Ghosh is a novelist and non-fiction writer.
(18) Rushdie, however, seems strangely unwilling to make the same concession to Mo Yan as, from the vantage point of his "free" society, he repeatedly condemns a fellow novelist working in an "unfree" one.
(19) In the way that Ukip mobilised a group of people who pulled the Tory party to the right, hopefully people like myself, JME and Novelist will show that our demographic can be mobilised,” says Akala.
(20) You don't need to be a great novelist to be able to recognise one.
Novelty
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
(n.) Something novel; a new or strange thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) Novelty, as represented by a change in female partner or by a change in environment, has not increased sexual performance in old rhesus males.
(3) Novelty and immobilization induced a slight but significant increase in OT levels in the CSF immediately after the stress.
(4) The [14C]2-deoxy-glucose (2-DG) autoradiographic technique revealed that movement and novelty of a visual display affected rat visual system metabolic activity.
(5) For some of the pupils, that in itself was a novelty, including those from homes without a table to dine on, or in some cases a family to eat with.
(6) The results revealed a significant novelty preference in the two-, four- and eight-day habituation groups.
(7) Three independent dimensions of personality are defined and related to heritable variation in patterns of response to specific types of environmental stimuli: 'novelty seeking' is due to a heritable tendency toward frequent exploratory activity and intense excitement in response to novel stimuli; 'harm avoidance' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to aversive stimuli and to learn to avoid punishment, novelty, and non-reward passively; and 'reward dependence' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behavior.
(8) For the preterms, novelty and exposure-time scores were found to be related to several medical risk factors.
(9) Diazepam and muscimol, a direct GABA agonist, were compared on behavioral inhibition induced in rats by (1) novelty, (2) punishment, and (3) nonreward.
(10) Data on vocal output of 51 preterm infants and 16 term infants were obtained during naturalistic home observations at 1, 3, and 8 months; during the administration of a preference-for-novelty paradigm in the laboratory at 8 months; and by the administration of the Gesell Developmental Schedules at 9 months.
(11) Instead, they habituated to the novelty of the runway, as grooming and sitting still replaced investigation.
(12) Infant care by multiple females and by males was observed and the conservative nature of mangabey responses to novelty noted.
(13) Pretest exposure to novelty or injections of beta-endorphin can enhance passive avoidance (PA) retention (e.g., Izquierdo & McGaugh, 1985).
(14) What has been lost in the excitement are the biological issues that relate to the rapid emergence of phenotypic novelties.
(15) At the same time, Danielle and Este were instructed not to leave Holland without checking out Amsterdam's novelty museum, the Heineken Experience.
(16) A confirmatory factor analysis of the TPQ failed to replicate the three proposed factors of novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence.
(17) Two experiments were carried out to study the effect of prior knowledge on cognitive processes related to human intelligence by examining its role in defining task novelty.
(18) I mean, it was a novelty in South Shields to see a little boy in full make-up dancing on pointe.
(19) The results suggest that CCK-5-8 can amplify the arousal enhancement elicited by novelty through a central mechanism.
(20) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.