Ella Minnow Pea

 

Mark Dunn's thoroughly enjoyable, at least in my opinion, novel Ella Minnow Pea begins with the following sentence:

Dear Cousin Tessie,
Thank you for the lovely postcards

In her book of reading recommendations, More Book Lust, Nancy Pear said the following about Dunn's novel:

Clearly, Mark Dunn's imagination knows no bounds -- consider Ella Minnow Pea: A progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable ... . The [book], whose subtitle is "A Novel in Letters," is laugh-out-loud funny (but also thought provoking). In order to find the solution to a nightmarish situation, the citizens of Nollup must construct a sentence of thirty-two letters or less that includes every letter in the alphabet.

If you enjoy books where language is more important than plot or character, then I would recommend Ella Minnow Pea