“The big ocean liner, snow white, with two red and black slanting funnels, lay at anchor, attracting seagulls. The sea was calm, the lens of the sky was set at infinity. The coastline – low green hills and the dim outlines of stone houses lying in pockets of mist – was in three pale French colours, a brocade borrowed from some museum. The pink was daybreak. So beautiful, and no one to see it.”
From ‘The Chateau’ by William Maxwell

And read my reviews of these other novels by William Maxwell:-
BRIGHT CENTER OF HEAVEN
THE FOLDED LEAF
THEY CAME LIKE SWALLOWS
TIME WILL DARKEN IT… and read the first paragraph HERE.

Try one of these #FirstParas & discover a new author:-
‘Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant’ by Anne Tyler 
‘I’ll Take You There’ by Joyce Carol Oates 
‘Notes on a Scandal’ by Zoe Heller 

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