The "telegraph made prose lean and unadorned", and subsequently separated the readers previously personal connection with the author.

The story is told in lean, precise, unsentimental prose that avoids cliche.

His lean, dry, elegant prose from which emotion has been drained away looks at human experience from a perspective that suggests a scientist examining tiny poisonous reptiles under a microscope.

She liked it a lot, particularly Hamid's "lean, hip, present-tense" prose.

Still, it's an impressive debut, full of lean and lyrical prose.

Dalton's approach, combining exhaustive research with lean prose, is more austere.

Last year our reviewer, Marilyn Stasio, praised the novel for its "lean prose and wheels-within-wheels plotting."

Also loved the way Coetzee uses the spare, lean prose to mirror Lurie's (and SA's?)

"If stung, consult a doctor" is a good example of the lean, no-nonsense prose you'll find throughout this book.

Foster's first book is fashioned from lean, sharp prose, the kind that usually invites adjectives like "hip" and "edgy."