Example sentences of "novel set in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Private eye novel set in late Thirties Berlin . |
| 2 | A hallucinogenic novel set in a red light district halfway between New Orleans and hell |
| 3 | A violent , harrowing but oddly tender adaptation of Hubert Selby 's famous novel set in a harsh , poverty-stricken Brooklyn opens as a strike at a local factory explodes into confrontation . |
| 4 | The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst is a beautifully written , homoerotic novel set in the pre-AIDS gay male sub-culture of London in the early 1980s . |
| 5 | Elsbeth Lindner , rebuilding Weidenfeld 's fiction list , has bought a first novel set in Civil War England and Puritan America which she hesitates , she says , to bill as ‘ a prequel to The Scarlet Letter ’ because it is ‘ very much a novel in its own right ’ . |
| 6 | A house for Mr Biswas is an engaging comic novel set in Trinidad about a poor man who marries into a large extended family from whom he struggles to escape . |