A Good House (Reading Group Guides)
Publisher: Picador USA; Picador
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312421557
First sentence: FED BY THE ROLLING FIELDS and the running miles of shallow country ditches to the east of town, Stonebrook Creek approached the town aslant, cutting down through Livingston's gully, then flowing past the burning mounds of garbage at the dump, a ripe, evolving depth of trash that came alive at night with the industrious plunder of raccoons, an afternoon home-away-from-home for the town's mostly good-natured dogs.