The Book That Changed My Life
Subtitle: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
Publisher: Gotham
Published: 2006-10-19
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781592402106
Subjects: Literary reference works; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Essays; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Books & Reading; Literary Collections / Essays; Authors, American; 20th century; Authorship; Books And Reading
First sentence: I remember first the power of the language: "Here is the house. . . . Dick and Jane . . . the fall of 1941 . . . Nuns go by as quiet as lust. . . . Love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup," and yes, that child left "among the garbage and the sunflowers."