Tag: David Stacton
First Sentences
"He could see it now: they were a little mad, the Booths, though each in a different way." David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court: A Novel about John Wilkes Booth.
"When Elizabeth Blackwell decided to become the first woman doctor, in many ways she wasn't actually the first." Olivia Campbell, Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine.
"Lexa McCaskill ran both hands through her coppery hair, adding up appetites." Ivan Doig, Mountain Time.
"The adventure that changed the course of George Bird Grinnell's life began with a train, and the path of the train, as it crossed the plains in the summer of 1870, was blocked by buffalo." Michael Punke, Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West.
"One hot spring evening, just as the sun was going down, two men appeared at Patriarch's Ponds." Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita.
"Her sister's drawing room was already crowded when Marie-Madeline Fourcade arrived." Lynne Olson, Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler.
"In early spring, everything had been so different." Serena Kent, Death in Provence.
"At seventy-three, with his wartime career as president of the Naval Consulting Board behind him, Edison tried to make sense of a new intellectual order that challenged everything he had learned of Newtonian theory." Edmund Morris, Edison.
"Some years ago, on a sunny Friday in early May, still vivid to crime buffs, a bold new age commenced, or the visible part of it anyway, when Romo Malbonum, the Deckled Don, talked himself into a life sentence to be served in a maximum-security federal prison." Jethro K. Lieberman, Everything is Jake.
"For sixty-five days, the Mayflower had blundered her way through storms and headwinds, her bottom a shaggy pelt of seaweed and barnacles, her leaky decks spewing salt water onto her passengers' devoted heads." Nathaniel Philbrick, In the Heart of the Sea.
"The Pacific is the loneliest of oceans, and travelers across that rolling desert begin to feel that their ship is lost in an eternity of sky." Earl Derr Biggers, The Black Camel.
"At the slow beat of approaching rotor blades, black birds rose into the sky, scattering over the frozen meadows and the pearly knots of creeks and ponds facing the Pripyat Basin." Adam Higginbotham, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster.