Book Of Merlyn
Publisher: Berkley
Published: January 15, 1987
ISBN-13: 9780425103241
First sentence: "MY FATHER made me a wooden castle big enough to get into, and he fixed real pistol barrels beneath its battlements to fire a salute on my birthday, but made me sit in front the first night-that deep Indian night-to receive the salute, and I, believing I was to be shot, cried."