Summary
When I first read it, it was the astonishing images that stayed with me: a man wiping off yellow paint from around the eyes of a woman he barely knows, her "blue left iris wavering at the closeness"; a nun falling offa bridge at night like a "black-garbed bird", her plummeting body illuminated by the light spraying down from a flare; a thief who escapes from prison by painting himself and his clothes the same blue as the roof of the jail and lying down on the roof when the guards aren't looking, instantly making himself invisible. The fifth time - I'm not sure it was the fifth time; I'm only pretending to have an exact sense of chronology, but I do know it was soon after 11 September 2001 it was a book that showed how a man of decency and humanity could strap dynamite to his chest and set off to blow up (though ultimately he chooses not to) one of the great symbols of capitalism, a system he has seen trampling on the weak.
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The Book That Changed My Life
The truth is that when I try to think of a book which changed my life, the only one that comes to mind is my first novel, In the City by the Sea. When it was accepted for publication, I went ...
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