Matters of Chance
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: October 1, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060929527
First sentence: Away from home for the first time at a boarding school he did not (then) much like, Morgan Shurtliff was a shy, lonely, fourteen-year-old dreamer, a bright though erratic student, a passionate reader.