However, the writing of this novel introduced him to Beat avatar Neal Cassady, the model for Dean Moriarty.
The novel introduced Toby Peters, a down-at-the-heels private eye in the 1930s and '40s.
Winter Damage by Natasha Carthew (Bloomsbury £10.99) is also a first novel, introducing a resourceful teenage heroine in bitter circumstances.
Set in 1948, the novel introduces Ezekiel ("Easy") Rawlins, an unwilling amateur detective from the Watts section of Los Angeles.
(Doubleday, $18.95). Joy Fielding's eighth novel introduces us to Lynn Schuster, a social worker, and Renee Bower, her divorce lawyer, as their seemingly perfect marriages are ending in sexual betrayal.
A recent Bantam novel introduces a smuggling enterprise, led by the evil Prince Xizor, within the time line of the original trilogy.
A sub-plot about the mystical union of a boy and his Maori nurse adds breadth to the novel, introducing a flavour of New Zealand's native culture.
The novel introduces Bella as she moves to Washington state and first meets Edward, who instantly falls for her even though he is a vampire.
The regional novel was supplanted by the psychological novel, introduced by Roelants with Komen en gaan (1927; "Coming and Going"), and was raised to great stylistic heights by Maurice Gilliams (Elias, 1936), who was also a subtle poet and essayist.
This Great Depression-era novel introduced the character of Arturo Bandini, a young Italian-American from Colorado trying to make it as a writer in the city, who is based on Fante himself.
