However, the meat of the novel is in the deadening impact on all the people involved.
Rich in imagery and rhythm, the novel is full of irony and revealing observation.
In the eyes of some, the novel is on a higher literary plane than the mystery.
Indeed, the only real drinker in the novel is the racist, violent Bob Ewell.
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The novel is nominated in the Guardian First Book Award, which will be given out on Thursday.
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The novel is apparently a continuation of two post-singularity novellas that Stross and Doctorow have published previously.
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With its mix of vaudeville slapstick and Kafka-like anxiety, the novel is unlike anything that came before.
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At points, the novel is like the diary of a stranger's dreams: beautiful in patches but ultimately annoying.
For some reason, the novel is more highly regarded in Europe than America.
The museum's Madelaine Smith said the enduring appeal of the novel is its perennial themes and that the "characters are real".
Apart from its pervasive, outrageous humour, the novel is hard to summarise.
But the novel is written in the first person, making it pointless to try to keep track of anything resembling the truth.
At the centre of the novel is a high-definition portrait of Sanderson.
And all of us know the difference between reading a heart-wrenching classic novel to reading a 2-line summary of what the novel is about.
The novel is lubricated with a plethora of pithy observations, and it speeds along like a car with the proverbial accelerator pressed to the floorboards.
The novel is a kind of postmodernist collage stained with tears.
Visitors to Jane Austen's House Museum, in Chawton, Hampshire, can view a rarely seen letter in which Austen says the novel is "my own darling child".
The centerpiece of the novel is the journal that Crusoe keeps during his exile, an attempt to shape the confusion of castaway existence into a coherent story.
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First, the novel is not supposed to be accounting 101.
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Michael Hofmann, the translator of this new English edition, warns us in a fine introduction that the novel is in many ways untypical of Roth's other books, many of them looser, more open-grained satirical urban novellas.
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The screenplay, which is extremely faithful to the novel, is by Ted Tally.
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The bolted door is both what gives Massimo Cuori, the talented young author who is the novel's narrator, access to eroticism and what keeps him from it.
Although the novel coronavirus is from the same large family of pathogens as SARS, it is very different.
And the more novel it is, the greater the uncertainty we are likely to have about its feasibility.
The average novel is usually about 90, 000 to 150, 000 words long.
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The novel twist is that a playing piece can move onto a "hotspot" and trigger tiny speakers to sound out a clue to help divine the murderer.
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