81.   For Nicholas, the narrator of this venturesome first novel, is the very essence of evasion and appeasement.

82.   First novels generally sink, and this was a first novel about a fish.

83.   For the first few weeks I received Sundance, it felt as if someone were delivering a first novel to my house every two hours.

84.   For each, this was a first novel.

85.   For the heroine of this first novel, men are easier to give up than cab driving.

86.   Furthermore, she wants to point out that her first novel is not about four single women in New York.

87.   Hardcover first novels are risky.

88.   He has learned how to write books, he said, and recently embarked on his first novel.

89.   He sold his very first novel and returned to the United States to write full time.

90.   He optioned the rights to the first novel and has a deal to film the subsequent books in the series.