Manhattan Transfer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Published: January 1943
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780395076163
First sentence: THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenish distempered walls where in the air tinctured with smells of alcohol and iodoform hung writhing a faint sourish squalling from other baskets along the wall.