RARA-AVIS: Best opening line of a novel

E J M Duggan (eddie.duggan@suffolk.ac.uk)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:43:33 -0800 I recently came across this goodie from Goodis (although it's a
paragraph rather than a sentence):

It was a tough break. Parry was innocent.
On top of that he was a decent sort of guy who never
bothered people and who wanted to lead a quiet life.
But there was too much on the other side and on his side
of it there was practically nothing. The jury decided
he was guilty. The judge hamded him a life sentence
and he was taken to San Quentin.

David Goodis, _Dark Passage_ (1946)

ED

BTW guys, thanks for the responses to the Goodis bibligraphy post.

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