The Beginning Place
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: February 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780061001482
First sentence: Checker on Seven! and back between the checkstands unloading the wire carts, apples three for eighty-nine, pineapple chunks on special, half gallon of two percent, seventy-five, four, and one is five, thank you, from ten to six six days a week; and he was good at it.