The Lying Stones of Marrakech
Subtitle: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: April 17, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780609807552
First sentence: WE TEND TO THINK OF FAKERY AS AN ACTIVITY DEDIcated to minor moments of forgivable fun (from the whoopie cushion to the squirting lapel flower), or harmless embellishment (from my grandfather's vivid eyewitness tales of the Dempsey-Firpo fight he never attended, to the 250,000 people who swear they were there when Bobby Thomson hit his home run in a stadium with a maximal capacity of some fifty thousand).