Sketches from a Life
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780393321395
First sentence: It is a strange thing about cities: there are some which are simply collections of buildings-inanimate, impersonal things; and there are others, like Hamburg, which reach out for you, when you live in them, and spread the tentacles of their beauty and their evil quietly around you.