In 1989 our reviewer, Michael Gorra, called this a "provocative novel" and admired its "pitiless and brilliant prose."

In 1989 our reviewer, Michael Gorra, called the book "one of the most disturbing new novels I've read in years," praising "the pitiless and brilliant prose."

Dignity, formality, self-restraint - our world is not awash in these virtues, but they're present on every page of Alan Bennett's brilliant and luminous prose.

In the midst of writing brilliant prose on the word processor, I often awoke with head pillowed in the keyboard and the screen filled with senseless words millions of letters long.

Brooks' reputation rested on the dexterity with which he embroidered elaborate biographical detail into brilliant anecdotal prose.

In my first letter I had hoped to impress you with my brilliant prose, but that will have to wait for my second.

The feistiness would count for nothing without the brilliant prose.

Boyle blended brilliant prose and delinquency in hydroponically potent entertainments.

It's always been more important to me to discover something new in what I'm writing about and put it into brilliant prose than to make any political point on earth.

"Bennett's brilliant and luminous" prose "is like stained glass: if you stare at it, you see things you missed," Christopher Buckley wrote here last year.