Literary Significance and Reception
As of September 7, 2008, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association and IndieBound list The Sunrise Lands as number nine on their list of mass market bestsellers in the Pacific Northwest.
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Famous quotes containing the words literary, significance and/or reception:
“I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Hes leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropfs and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)