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vikramdave1 | 17:36 Thu 03rd Mar 2005 | Arts & Literature
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Can people suggest any books in which the author uses vivid, brilliant descriptive prose ?

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Try the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - e.g "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

The Lord of the Flies. Studying it at school right now and some description used by Golding is amazing.
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
I remember finding "Sexing the Cherry" by Jeanette Winterson very vivid and colourful.

I know it sounds a bit harcore, but there's some amazing stuff in D.H. Lawrence. There's a short story called The Prussian Officer, which if you can get hold of it has some of the most powerful descriptions I've ever read.There are descriptions of a man's perceptions of his environment as he get's more and more dehydrated and starts to go nuts - great stuff!

Alternatively there's a novel called The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (who wrote the moomin books) about a little girl and her grandmother living on an island.

I too thought of Garcia Marquez immediately. If 100 years is a bit heavy going try short stories in Leaf Storm. He has an uncanny ability to describe things and people by what they're not as well as what they are. Unforgettable.

How about Shakespeare?  Or any of the classics, "The Odyssey," "The Divine Comedy," anything by Sophocles.....

Also, Angela's Ashes...Frank Mccourt...I read the book before seeing the picture and the way I visualised it was EXACTLY the way they put it on screen.  It was amazing!!

Try Under Milkwood, think it's by Dylan Thomas, that's nothing but discription!

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