ZADIE SMITH
English novelist (1975 - )
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Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was
dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer
Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would
not be too heavy upon him. He lay in a prostrate cross, jaw
slack, arms splayed on either side like some fallen angel;
scrunched up in each fist he held his army service medals (left)
and his marriage license (right), for he had decided to take his
mistakes with him.
- White Teeth (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
Last Revised: 2008 June 30
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