This ambitious novel by a major Cuban poet concerns a boy's coming of age and the wisdom he gains while searching for his dead father.

An ambitious first novel, written in the voice of a 40-year-old woman who recounts her harrowing progress into adulthood.

Surprisingly, both characters in this ambitious novel are based on actual early-20th-century figures.

Jake meets with her several times working on an ambitious novel.

Its barely concealed moments of seriousness make it his most learned and ambitious novel.

A typically startling, ambitious novel of murder and other threats.

That's the artful truth of this ambitious and insightful novel.

An ambitious and complex novel that is well worth tracking down.

Publishers Weekly was positive and wrote that it was "an ambitious novel".

Of course, ambitious first novels do tend to have technical problems, and "Second Sight" has its share.