The fire in our habitual public-house spurted and fell.
-- Strangers and Brothers by C. P. Snow.
Better than the first sentence is the name of the chapter: "Firelight on a Silver Cigarette Case."
This is the first book in Snow's 11-volume "Strangers and Brother's" series. This volume is now published under the title George Passant, but I have an older edition with the Strangers and Brothers title.
I have never read C.P.Snow, but I have been eying some volumes at the library used bookshop where I volunteer; your post has intrigued me enough that I will pull one of those bolumes when the shop is next open :)
ReplyDeleteTakes me back... We collected the whole set when we were newly married and read them together. I love them--haunting, memorable, evocative...
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