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“It was terribly hot that summer Mr. Robertson left town, and for a long while the river seemed dead.”

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Kate Stover

What should the first sentence in a great novel do? Set the tone, establish the location and perhaps introduce the main character?  The first sentence in Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout does more than that. It gives us the dying river image, which … Continue reading →

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