Publishers Weekly gave the novel a starred review, calling it a "remarkable debut".

After a screening at the Seattle Film Festival in 1996, Variety called it a "remarkable debut."

Peter Narbutas made a remarkable local debut as the faun.

It was a remarkable debut.

Maximum City is the remarkable debut of a major new Indian writer.

"Drowning Ruth" is a remarkable debut: surprising, unsettling and sure.

But Ms. Coppola is apparently guileless, or so it seemed to me when we met to talk about her remarkable debut.

Hailed as a remarkable debut, the film already announced Mr. Bresson's theme of salvation.

Last year in these pages, Maile Meloy called this novel "a remarkable debut."

Altogether this is a remarkable orchestral debut, and I strongly recommend readers to sample it.