Sugar and Rum
Publisher: Penguin Putnam~trade
Published: January 25, 1990
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780140119923
First sentence: This was a time of trouble for Benson, when he felt silence forming over him like a crust, when he couldn't work and couldn't sleep and spent a lot of time walking around the city in an ancient overcoat of grey tweed, talking to strangers, looking for signs, portents, auguries.