Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 51 allegorically 50 Bronte sisters 50 literary allusions 50 recurring motif 49 recurring motifs 48 Beckettian 48 subtextual 48 Auster 48 Isak Dinesen 48 omniscient narrator 48 poetic imagery 47 Helprin 47 profundities 47 wonderfully evocative 47 lyrical prose 47 Schama 46 Hustvedt 46 narrator 46 Blindsight 46 philosophizes 46 Emily Bronte 46 le Carré 46 Cavafy 46 prose poems 46 Faludi 46 narratives 46 Roiphe 46 alternating chapters 46 Thubron 46 Austen novels 45 Raban 45 unheroic 45 Kore eda 45 orientalism 45 Kurson 45 Nancy Mitford 45 tellings 45 Italo Calvino 45 Guterson 45 bildungsroman 45 Jane Austen novels 44 Pinteresque 44 idylls 44 unquiet 44 Virgil Aeneid 44 mordantly 44 Olive Kitteridge 44 Bohjalian 44 Allusions 44 transcendentalist 44 Jonathan Livingston Seagull 44 Herman Melville Moby Dick 44 Marguerite Duras 44 prose poem 44 classical mythology 44 aloneness 44 dreamtime 44 Desolate 44 Inhabiting 44 phantasmagoric 44 graspable 44 palimpsest 44 Jamesian 44 Mary Gaitskill 44 divining rod 44 soullessness 44 Existentialism 44 inwardness 43 Joyce Ulysses 43 eternal truths 43 Coixet 43 voiceover narration 43 Chekhovian 43 ripping yarn 43 barrenness 43 Mrs. Dalloway 43 elusively 43 Homer Odyssey 43 existential despair 43 WG Sebald 43 Sneetches 43 melancholy 43 Le Carré 43 pleasanter 43 parables 43 parable 43 hippie ish 43 Tougias 43 proto feminist 43 wabi sabi 43 rhapsodies 43 richly imagined 43 desolation 43 imagistic 43 uninflected 43 Romantic poets 43 loneliness 43 Octavia Butler 43 Rebecca Solnit 43 Beautiful Dreamer 43 winsomely