protagonist

It’s the perfect setting, in other words, for a novel by Mr. Banville, who is a master of shadow and suggestion and whose protagonists are often elusive, wavering and easily corrupted.

Several of her books involve love triangles in which a woman is torn between two men, one of whom readers will recognize as patently unsuitable before her protagonist does.

He’s stepping in as protagonist pilot Hig after Mescal dropped out.

Mr. Bates’s music illustrates the story rather than evoking the intense emotional journeys of its two protagonists.

Its protagonist, a wandering mercenary, seeks revenge on a group of renegades who murdered her family.