Fading, My Parmacheene Belle
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312421373
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Literary; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: I WILL TELL you exactly how it was one day I said to my companion Gibble, "I am alone here, I need a wife," and he sent on the order without an adequate forewarning, he just breathed with a panting effort, those pockets beneath his jowls throbbing like the gills of a river bass laid out in a pail.