THE SENTENCE: JOHN WRAY
John Wray is a talented and fearless young author. I'm less convinced by his latest novel, "Lowboy" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March), but it's hard to argue with the following sentence:
The sun was declining and the firepits were glowing and oilcolored nightbirds were warbling down from the trees.
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quote It's often seemed to me that Shakespeare might well have been a simply brilliant editor as well as a beyond-extraordinary writer