Whew, would not dear blog readers say that self has certainly outdone herself – in terms of titles of posts, that is – with the above? Without further ado, the list:
Gregg Bottoms‘ Fight Scenes (Counterpoint). Here’s the first line:
“The dog had nearly hanged herself, in her maniacal aggression, from a stout oak tree.”
Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Here’s the first line:
“The first time that Jean-Claude Pelletier read Benno von Archimboldi was Christmas 1980, in Paris, when he was nineteen years old and studying German literature.”
Per Petterson’s To Siberia (Graywolf Press). Here’s the first line:
“When I was a little girl of six or seven I was always scared when we passed the lions on our way out of town.”
Wally Lamb’s novel, The Hour I First Believed (Harper). Here’s the first line:
“They were both working their final shift as Blackjack Pizza that night, although nobody but the two of them realized it was that.”
