Bellow's breakthrough novel is a dashing bildungsroman that pointed out a fresh direction for US fiction.

Nightwing (1977), also an Edgar nominee, was his breakthrough novel, and he adapted it for a feature film of the same name (1979).

His pair of breakthrough novels, Main Street (1920) and Babbitt (1922), both of which contributed new terms to.

Darius Just had previously helped novice writer Giles Devore produce a breakthrough novel.

Her breakthrough novel, in terms of this page, was her fourth, "Tar Baby," which spent 17 weeks on the hardcover list in 1981.

After writing full-time for more than ten years, Koontz's acknowledged breakthrough novel was Whispers, published in 1980.

Random House, its publisher, is calling it "the breakthrough erotic novel of our time."

Bogner's breakthrough novel, the first to hit the bestsellers lists was Divorce, in 1966.

Lisa's breakthrough novel, it turns out, is all about Ruth.

The book is regarded as the author's breakthrough novel.