In Holland, it was advertized as a literary novel, but several other countries have released it as a thriller.
K. Rowling went in a new direction with "The Casual Vacancy, " an adult-literary novel that Little, Brown published last fall.
The jacket design has the subdued, sophisticated look of a literary novel, but features cover blurbs from thriller writers, including S.J.
The former Revlon spokesmodel released her literary debut, a novel titled "Beauty To Die For, " this week.
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Broadcaster Simon Mayo has been nominated for a prestigious literary award for his first novel, Itch.
Manhad Narula, one of the organisers of the literary prize, said the winning novel "unearthed... a rare, unfiltered, inside view into a lesser known world that exists within South Asia".
In the eyes of some, the novel is on a higher literary plane than the mystery.
And Booker and Costa-prize winner Hilary Mantel won the literary award for her best-selling novel, Bring Up The Bodies, beating former Booker rival Will Self and debut novelist, Kerry Hudson.
Readers of more ostentatiously literary fare may find relief in an artistic novel that does not lavish 25 pages on a trip to the post office.
Kathy's first literary success came during her teens with the 1979 novel Puberty Blues (co-written with Gabrielle Carey) about life, relationships and surf culture in Sydney - it became a film in 1981.
First awarded in 2007, the Man Asian literary prize, is given annually to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in or translated into English, published in the previous calendar year.
Beryl Bainbridge's novel Master Georgie, which won the WHSmith literary award earlier this year, was dropped from the final shortlist.
Yet beyond the complicated dynamic of the two creative forces, the novel poses another fundamental question about artistic and literary creation.
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In his latest novel he describes the supposed murder of an eminent literary critic, who happens to be Jewish, by a disgruntled author.
The movie improves on the novel by jettisoning its dubious psychology and its pretensions to literary significance.
The conference will explore the original historical context of the novel, as well as the numerous screen adaptations and literary spin-offs the book has inspired.
That these anti-novelistic tricks are all, in fact, novelistic tricks, often borrowed from the history of the novel, does not muffle the pleasure of watching this literary freedom in action.
One of the reasons for this literary success is that Mantel seems to have written a very good modern novel, then changed all her fictional names to English historical figures of the fifteen-twenties and thirties.
Set in America in the not-too-distant future, the novel braided countless characters and ideas into a deliriously strange and self-consciously literary plot, involving a tennis academy, a recovery facility, a dysfunctional family and a debilitatingly gripping film.
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Literary critic and journalist Maya Jaggi, who led the judging panel, said Tan's novel had "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".
The award for best debut novel, now in its sixth year, is named after the distinguished publisher and literary agent who died in 2003.
Since it emerged in Japan nearly a decade ago, the cell phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, has moved from a little-known subgenre to a mainstream literary phenomenon.
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The novel probably won't win over critics who regard Mr. Grahame-Smith as a literary parasite whose sole talent consists of taking existing stories and tossing in monsters and gore.
"Pendennis" follows "Pen" through his West Country upbringing to his debt-bilking sojourn at "Oxbridge University" (Thackeray himself spent five unproductive terms at Cambridge), his life as a literary man about town in the London of the early 1840s, his writing of a best-selling novel called "Walter Lorraine, " and his eventual marriage to his milksop cousin Laura.
Yet Hollinghurst also prosecutes Bryant in this novel: by the time we encounter him in the nineteen-eighties, he is a minor literary schemer, relentless, intrusive, and duplicitous.
Two years later, after pouring everything I had into that second novel, I was broke, back in debt, and the book had been rejected by almost every literary agent in America.
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