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![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t have any recollection of the physical appearance of the book, but it must have been a new hardback, for I picked it up shortly after it was published. I liked to hang around the library after school because as the only child of working parents I found our empty apartment in the late afternoons cold and lonely. Perhaps it was on display as a new release. 52 Manhattan (Alberto Manguel, in his wonderful A History of Reading, says that “largely encounters with books have been a matter of chance” ). I came across it entirely by accident at the Inwood public library up on Broadway one block north of my junior high school, P.S. It is the first book I read in English, and it is the book that made me a reader. Forester published the first of the Horatio Hornblower books that I read, Lieutenant Hornblower, in 1952, the year that my family and I arrived in the United States (the first book of the saga Forester wrote, however- Beat to Quarters-came out in 1939). ![]()
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