The Name of the World
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780060929657
First sentence: Since my early teens I've associated everything to do with college, the "academic life," with certain images borne toward me, I suppose, from the TV screen, in particular from the films of the 1930s they used to broadcast relentlessly when I was a boy, and especially from a single scene: Fresh-faced young people come in from an autumn night to stand around the fireplace in the home of a beloved professor.