1.   The end result of his work was a classic American novel.

2.   A promising writer who just may write the great American novel someday.

3.   As a college kid, in the grips of American novels, I encountered two words that I had to look up, but remain with me.

4.   A great American novel has become a great American musical.

5.   Business did not fare much better in American novels by Frank Norris, Sinclair Lewis and William Dean Howells.

6.   Foer intertwines the distinctly Russian novella and the more postmodern American novel with deftness and heart.

7.   He fears the future of the American novel, of readers.

8.   I picture myself independent, soaking and communing with nature, while working on the great American novel.

9.   I first heard her name mentioned in a college course on the American novel.

10.   I will enter my prime and suddenly be compelled to seek further education, start a home business, write the great American novel, enter a marathon.