Legacies
Subtitle: Stories
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780393318692
Subjects: Literature: Texts; Short Stories (single author); Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: For most of the year he could not see the house at all; it was hidden from the farm, first by the shoulder of the hill and then by the rows of hardwood trees along the drive, so that even in the far corner of the field, as he turned the tractor up out of the wet swale and onto that curious little hump, the smell of fresh hay so strong it almost choked him, he would look up, as if out of a mirror or a photograph taken from his own bedroom window long ago, and see nothing but a far curtain of green, oblique, as the trees followed the course of the drive up that sloping lawn below the terraces.