1.   A comic novel about the romantic failures of a Vietnam veteran.

2.   A comic novel about a bachelor and his unlikely pal.

3.   A comic novel about Africa and colonialism.

4.   A splendidly comic novel about the day in the life of one family that illuminates the dense, lonely core of each member and their interdependent relations.

5.   He also beat Roth to the post-war comic Jewish novel.

6.   He was in a very good mood, as he and Tierney had just that morning finished collaborating on a comic novel about self-help books.

7.   I hesitate to call it my favorite comic novel, although I cannot think offhand of another I admire as highly.

8.   I was beginning a new novel, a comic novel about horse racing, and I have to say I was inordinately pleased with it.

9.   In this breezy comic novel, Trillin presents his own four-wheeled version of life on the streets.

10.   It might be a comic novel.