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Focus: The 100 Best First Lines from Novels

Introduction to Focus: In the Beginning Was the Word: 100 Best First Lines from Novels

Charles B. Harris
p. 3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0028
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Opening Lines: A Congeries of Reflections

Michael Bérubé, Stephen Burn, David Cowart, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Andrew Ervin, Tom Grimes, Charles B. Harris, Kit Hume, Robert L. McLaughlin, Lance Olsen, Sally E. Parry, Nancy Pearl, James Phelan, James Schiff, Susan Strehle, Trey Strecker, Eric Miles Williamson
pp. 6-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0032
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Feature: Literary Debuts

Breaking the Mold

Mike Daily
p. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0036
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The Collector

Louis McKee
p. 11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0040
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Feature: The Twenties Generation

Layers of Life

Nicholas Birns
p. 12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0044
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E Pluribus Feldman

Fred Muratori
pp. 13-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0049
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Gone Nowhere

M. L. Liebler
pp. 14-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0053
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Book Reviews

Of Heroin, Epics, and Bears

Laura Wright
p. 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0030
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One Performance Is Not Enough

Paula Koneazny
p. 17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0034
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Dream Factory

Gabriel Miller
p. 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0038
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Metamorphosis

Stephen Burn
p. 19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0042
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Out Is In

Regina Weinreich
p. 20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0047
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Toy Story

Kristin Thiel
p. 21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0052
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Ink-Wasting Toys

Jocelyn Emerson
pp. 21-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0029
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An Epitaph for Europa

Pawel Frelik
pp. 22-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0033
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Recuperating Understanding

Joseph Donahue
pp. 23-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0037
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The Work at Hand

Larry Smith
pp. 24-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0041
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The Chaos of Coca

Amy Sayre-Roberts
p. 25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0045
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Sailing to Dallas

Don Melichar
p. 26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0050
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Dancing In Imelda's Shoes

Paul Keyes
pp. 26-27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0054
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Economy of Words

Larry Fondation
pp. 27-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0031
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Transformations

Justin Taylor
p. 28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0035
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Bending Gender

Richard Grayson
p. 29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0039
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The Atrocity Repetition

Davis Schneiderman
p. 30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0043
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A Strange Delight

Ryan Smith
pp. 30-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0048
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Departments

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Kass Fleisher
p. 2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0046
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By the Editors—: Recent Publications

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/abr.2006.0051
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