American Book Review 100 Best First Lines from Novels

[David Casseres]

My first thought was they'd left out one of the best, from Budd
Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?"  But it turns out to be two
sentences:

"The first time I saw him he couldn't have been much more than sixteen
years old, a little ferret of a kid, sharp and quick.  Sammy Glick."

On 2/2/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yeah, that was soon enough pointed out to me.  I went
> scanning for it, but maybe didn't expect it so high
> up.  Have yet to have time to make note even of the
> top 10, so ...
>
> But also note No. 23 ...
>
> --- Cathy Edwards <Cathy.Edwards at theppc.com> wrote:
>
> > That's there, number 15.
>
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