Sketches from a Life
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844671796
Subjects: Biography/Autobiography; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography
First sentence: It is a strange thing about cities: there are some which are simply collections of buildings-inanimate, impersonal things; and there are others, like Hamburg, which reach out for you, when you live in them, and spread the tentacles of their beauty and their evil quietly around you.