Peter Mayle has just completed his first novel.

彼得·梅尔刚完成他的第一本小说。

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Her first novel has all the makings of a classic.

她的第一部小说堪称经典之作。

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Her first novel was published in 1998 and since then she hasn't looked back.

她的第一部小说于1998年发表，从此她便一发而不可收。

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That's very powerful," This past September, Sierra Club books published Shelton Johnson's first novel, called Gloryland.

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It's what allowed you to speak so powerfully to people in your first novel, and you've always wanted to write an autobiography.

让你在第一本小说里,掷地有声地向人们说话,所以你想写自传。

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The first impulse to write this novel is described as a throb.

写这本小说的第一冲动就被描绘成悸动。

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Mailer found success young with his first novel, "The Naked and the Dead" published in 1948.

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Three years later, her first novel in hand, she attempted to secure an agent.

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In addition, I am writing my first novel and working on two other books.

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