91.   Her first novel was rejected by five publishers in Britain, leading her husband to suggest she seek publication in the United States.

92.   Her discoverer was none other than Willa Cather, even before the latter had published her own first novel.

93.   Her first novel is about a young woman who is a circus roadie.

94.   He spoke of his delight on receiving a copy of his first novel translated into French from the American.

95.   Her first novel is a strong, graceful piece of prose that stirs war, love, class and culture together in a strange and beautiful alchemy.

96.   Her first novel should widen that appreciation, for she has taken an achingly idiosyncratic story and rendered it with eloquence, hilarity, and ominous precision.

97.   Her first novel, for instance.

98.   Herbert devised an entire universe and the first novel barely scratched the surface.

99.   He worked as a reporter at the Washington Star for nine years, then decided to take a risk and resigned to write his first novel.

100.   His first novel is the story of a family in upheaval in the years before World War II.