The Beginning Place
Publisher: Harper Mass Market Paperbacks
Published: February 1991
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780060916657
Subjects: Science fiction
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.