Word: well-told
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...Clock is a pleasant, well-told romance rather than the great, true picture it might have been; but few films in recent years have managed so movingly to combine first-grade truth with second-grade fiction...
...Live in Alaska is Connie's lively and well-told tale of their honeymoon...
Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, one of the three best-selling novels of 1939, was an exceedingly well-told problem story of the troubles of being a second wife; it was tailor-made for the land of high divorce rates. Frenchman's Creek, just as well-told, is even nearer that bull's-eye where best-sellers are scored: the heart of the U.S. housewife...
...story is superlatively well-told, and, as a chronicle of the damned, written with a suppleness and accuracy uncommon in the modern novel. The propertions are right, the prevailing irony is held implicit, and no phrases are wasted in commentary. As a study of futile people--people sinister in their futility--it is memorable. Even the death of John Graves was accomplished by a few inches of muddy water from which he could easily have arisen, instead of the quicksand he so grandly imagined it to be. The book holds one's interest throughout...
...first book, The Giant Joshua is the 633-page story of a Mormon wife and of the pioneer community in which she lived out her marriage. Exhaustively detailed and rather well-told, it is not merely a good fictional history of a special group and period; it is also a good novel about human beings in general...