These Many Years
Subtitle: Recollections of a New Yorker
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781419159992
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Novelty
First sentence: WHEN a man squares himself at his desk and for a moment stays his hand from the pen while he tries to "squeeze the sponge of memory" - to borrow the apt phrase of Henry James - when he seeks to recall and to set in order his most salient recollections, he finds himself confronted by the duty of making a choice between the two kinds of autobiography, loosely so called.