In a Glass House
Publisher: Picador
Published: June 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312186913
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: The town of Mersea rested on a small bluff that looked out over the shores of Lake Erie; and had the waters of that lake not reversed their flow from the Mississippi to St. Lawrence when some catalysm of nature opened up the Niagara Gorge, the few acres of raised land on which Mersea sat might have remained an island, cut off from the mainland by ten or fifteen miles of shallow lake.