Erika Dreifus

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

“(To this day, his accent—a bewildering mix of Colonial English, Eton and Jackie Gleason—reflects this unusual provenance.)”

Source: Andrew Ross Sorkin, “Everything Is Illuminated,”* The New York Times Magazine (*title appears to differ in print and electronic versions)