The City is a Rising Tide
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: June 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780743276658
Subjects: American First Novelists; Fiction; Fiction - General; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.); Literary; Fiction / Literary; Crimes of passion
First sentence: Down at the Fulton Fish Market, a person could still buy the illegal eels pulled from the Hudson, eels that had evolved, in the last one or two hundred generations, an enzyme that resists the PCBs and that is, according to people who have a bent for this sort of thing, very tasty, laces the meat with a flavor that is, as Peter described it, woody and vibrant.