A first line in just one line will capture the soul of a book and make you really feel what the writer slash the main character of the book was intending. Albert Camus also won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I think in 1957 for his novel The Stranger. Kurt Vonnegut's perhaps most classic book is Slaughterhouse Five because it's his direct experience as a prisoner of war in World War II. Jennifer Egan wrote the very first line of her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel.

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