The Long Silence of Mario Salviati
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Regan Books
Published: February 17, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060529789
First sentence: When Jonty Jack pushed open the door of his cottage in the gorge above the little town of Yearsonend one morning, and the smell of damp ferns and old wood shavings rose in his nostrils, he found the sculpture standing there, just as though ... "God's my witness," said Jonty Jack, "just as though it had sprouted from the ground overnight."