The Book That Changed My Life
Subtitle: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books That Matter Most to Them
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: Gotham
Published: October 18, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781592403172
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Books And Reading; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Books & Reading; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays
First sentence: I remember first the power of the language: "Here is the house. . . . Dick and Jane . . . the fall of 1941 . . . Nuns go by as quiet as lust. . . . Love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup," and yes, that child left "among the garbage and the sunflowers."