Best debut novels?

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Tom McCarthy, Remainder.

fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

stet (stet), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 21 January 2007 03:43 (seventeen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

lot to check out! was portrait of the artist.. omitted on purpose?

some faves

Sarah Hall, Haweswater
Alasdair Gray, Lanark
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends
B.S. Johnson, Travelling People
Flann O'brien, At Swim Two-Birds
Lisa Halliday, Asymmetry

devvvine, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link

the last samurai >>>>

imago, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link

is it time to admit that i found the last samuari pretty insufferable; expected to love it after all the talk i'd read on here

devvvine, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link

haha it is very annoying, but in a way that i love (and am)

imago, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link

loved when it would stray into the tangential stories, but man that kid..

should add sebald's vertigo as well

devvvine, Thursday, 2 May 2019 11:28 (four years ago) link

Hunger, Knut Hamsun

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:29 (four years ago) link

Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping was a good call!

A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 2 May 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link


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