Sunday Sentence

Book cover of Andrew Sean Greer’s novel LESS.

 

 

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.”

By his forties, all he has managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab.

Source: Andrew Sean Greer, Less