“Though I haven’t ever been on the screen I was brought up in pictures. Rudolph Valentino came to my fifth birthday party – or so I was told. I put this down only to indicate that even before the age of reason I was in a position to watch the wheels go round.”
‘The Last Tycoon’ by F Scott Fitzgerald 
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Try one of these 1st paras & discover a new author:-
‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy
‘Rebecca’ by Daphne du Maurier
‘Goldfinger’ by Ian Fleming

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A 1^st para which makes me want to read more: THE LAST TYCOON by F Scott Fitzgerald #books https://wp.me/p5gEM4-eM via @SandraDanby