The Long Silence of Mario Salviati
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: February 17, 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780340819999
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: When Jonty Jack pushed open the door of his cottage in the gorge above the little town of Yearsonend one morning, and the smell of damp ferns and old wood shavings rose in his nostrils, he found the sculpture standing there, just as though ... "God's my witness," said Jonty Jack, "just as though it had sprouted from the ground overnight."