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August 4, 2009

Grabbers - first sentences from new books

San Francisco Chronicle:

I enter the lobby of Claire Nightingale's apartment building, here to tell her I have murdered her only son.

"In This Way I Was Saved," a novel by Brian DeLeeuw

My mother says she can't listen to love songs anymore.

"Not That Kind of Girl," a memoir by Carlene Bauer

One evening, as Shahid Hasan came out of the communal hall toilet, resecured the door with a piece of looped string, and stood buttoning himself under a dim bulb, the door of the room next to his opened and a man emerged, carrying a briefcase.

"The Black Album, a novel (republished with "My Son the Fanatic") by Hanif Kureishi

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 4, 2009 1:01 AM
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