title: First Confession
author:  Montserrat Fontes 
description: Through the eyes of [the] small heroine, a wicked but touchingly vulnerable little girl . . . <em>First Confession</em> enjoys a robust plot and multidimensional characters. . . . Fontes's greatest talent, though, is her ability to see and define the world through the senses of a child.<br /> - <strong><em>Philadelphia Inquirer</em></strong><br /><br />Simmering first novel. . . . Writing with a vivid sense of character, class, culture, and place, Fontes has produced a novel as nasty, compelling and horrendous as childhood itself.<br /> - <strong><em>San Francisco Chronicle</em></strong><br /><br />Montserrat Fontes has listened to the rhythms that connect two languages, and divined a voice like nothing I've read before: Carson McCullers with a Spanish accent. <em>First Confession</em> invited me into the rich, dark place where life reveals itself to wide-eyed children, and it kept talking to me for a long time after I'd turned the final page.<br /> - <strong>Barbara Kingsolver</strong><br /><br />A splendid tour de force. I picked the book up and could not put it down. . . . She renders the border-life in all its stark and realistic darkness. . . . The children, Andrea and Victor, are alive and full of light, carrying in their hearts a bit of each of us.<br /> - <strong>Jimmy Santiago Boca</strong>
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  # Immortals Crowned by the French Academy: Cinq Mars, v5
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alfred de Vigny
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  BOOK 5.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XVIII. THE SECRET
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XIX. THE HUNTING PARTY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XX. THE READING
  
  
    
  CHAPTER XXI. THE CONFESSIONAL
  
  
  
      
  
  
  This etext was produced by David Widger widger@cecomet.net
  
  
  ## BOOK 5.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER XVIII. THE SECRET
  
  
  
  
  
    
  De Thou had reached home with his friend; his doors were carefully
  
  
  shut, and orders given to admit no one, and to excuse him to the
  
  
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