American Book Review 100 Best First Lines from Novels

[Cathy Edwards]

That's there, number 15.

 

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Monroe
Sent: 02 February 2006 17:37
To: Richard Fiero; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: American Book Review 100 Best First Lines from Novels

Very good, and I certainly wouldn't begrudge either Melville or Austen
here, but missing my favorite ...

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." --Samuel
Beckett, Murphy (1936)

On the other hand, last lines ...

'"Women, ---t."  --William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
(1939)

--- Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html
> 
> 100 Best First Lines from Novels
> 
> 1. Call me Ishmael. --Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
> (1851)
> 
> 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in 
> possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. --Jane 
> Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)
> 
> 3. A screaming comes across the sky. --Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's 
> Rainbow (1973) ...

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