The Painted Drum
Subtitle: A Novel (P.S.)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780060515119
First sentence: Leaving the child cemetery with its plain hand-lettered sign and stones carved into the weathered shapes of lambs and angels, I am lost in my thoughts and pause too long where the cemetery road meets the two-lane highway.