The Web and the Rock
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: December 1, 1973
ISBN-13: 9780060803131
First sentence: UP TO THE TIME GEORGE WEBBER'S FATHER DIED, THERE WERE SOME UNforgiving souls in the town of Libya Hill who spoke of him as a man who not only had deserted his wife and child, but had consummated his iniquity by going off to live with another woman.