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Calvin Trillin

First Impressions

by Steve Weinberg

A celebration of great opening lines in literature.


“There was one condolence letter that made me laugh. Naturally, a lot of them made me cry. Some of those, oddly enough, were from people who had never met Alice.”
-- About Alice (Random House, $15) by Calvin Trillin


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