The Record Books • The Man Who Sold The World

Beguiling novel about the friendship between a newspaper tycoon and an orphan lad he befriends while shining his shoes. Not the tycoon, the lad. The lad was shining his shoes. His shoes, the tycoon’s. Not his own shoes, that would make no sense. The lad was shining the tycoon’s shoes. And he befriended him. The tycoon. Befriended the boy, the lad.

Anyway, it’s beguiling.

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