The same words, of course, might be used by the reader to describe Mr. Banville's novel.

How to describe David Mitchell's first novel, "Ghostwritten"?

Stead described her novel in an interview in 1973:

"Powerful is too tame a word to describe Toni Morrison's searing new novel."

Over lunch he describes his novel in progress, currently titled "Anthill."

Romantic Times described her first novel as "lively, exciting, cleverly plotted" with an "independent, intelligent heroine and equally smart hero."

How best to describe Donna Tartt's enthralling first novel?

Is it fair to describe your second novel as a Muslim's critique of American values?

He described his first novel, Dragon's Egg, as "a textbook on neutron star physics disguised as a novel."

"Uneven" is the word used most often to describe Ellison's posthumous second novel, which he had been working on for 40 years before he died.