In 1899 Eekhoud offered to his readers a new and daring novel, Escal-Vigor.

But written as it is, and proportioned as it is, "Foreplay" makes better sense as a youthful, exuberant and daring novel.

It was time to enjoy Uncle Miltie, Lucy, and daring novels like Forever Amber and Peyton Place.

"The Living End," which John Irving reviewed in The New York Times Book Review and called "a fine and daring novel," was to be just another $2 chip.

In this daring first novel, a computer game designer suspected of murdering his obese wife is investigated by two marriage-savvy detectives, one of whom is Dr. Sam Sheppard.

A daring novel in which, off and on, narrator merges with author and history with imagination in the career of a grand 19th-century Polish actress who knocks em dead in California.

In this daring first novel, a man travels to California after his brother is killed in what may have been a drug transaction.