In a Lonely Place
Started April 5, 2026
Publication Details
Type:
Book
Publisher:
New York Review Books
Published:
1947
Reading Details
Pages:
198
Location:
Lawrence, Kansas (US)
Highlights
First Paragraph:
It was good standing there on the promontory overlooking the evening sea, the fog lifting itself like gauzy veils to touch his face. There was something in it akin to flying; the sense of being lifted high above crawling earth, of being a part of the wildness of air. Something too of being closed within an unknown and strange world of mist and cloud and wind. He'd liked flying at night; he'd missed it after the war had crashed to a finish and dribbled to an end. It wasn't the same flying a little private crate. He'd tried it; it was like returning to the stone ax after precision tools. He had found nothing yet to take the place of flying wild.