Manhattan Transfer
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: September 2, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780618381869
First sentence: THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenish distempered walls where in the air tinctured with smells of alcohol and iodoform hung writhing a faint sourish squalling from other baskets along the wall.