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Reading The Boys and their Baby by Larry Wolff (which is a fun yet frivolous book; good for a bit of light reading, but not exactly memorable otherwise), I came across the following lines:
"Conrad, you haven't said anything at all about yourself, says Adam. And there is a moment's silence while Conrad does not reply. He has straight blond hair, carefully combed, and very pale eyes, icy gray; odd, pointed features, the expression neither kind nor happy; a stiffly ironed white shirt, contrasting with Gary's bright red Stanford sweatshirt."
The book was published in 1988, too, so there's no doubt that this is entirely due to coincidence.
"Conrad, you haven't said anything at all about yourself, says Adam. And there is a moment's silence while Conrad does not reply. He has straight blond hair, carefully combed, and very pale eyes, icy gray; odd, pointed features, the expression neither kind nor happy; a stiffly ironed white shirt, contrasting with Gary's bright red Stanford sweatshirt."
The book was published in 1988, too, so there's no doubt that this is entirely due to coincidence.
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and huh - wonder just who it is Conrad resembles? *g*
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If you want to revisit this particular book...I guess it depends on how much you enjoyed it the first time around. If you're just looking to read something fun and frivolous, on the other hand: have you tried The Dreyfus Affair by Peter Lefcourt or Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon or Fool's Errand by Louis Bayard?
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There's a certain Harry Potter character whose description exactly matches that of Conrad from The Boys and their Baby.
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What is that question mark doing there? You're a HP fangirl; there should be no doubt in your statement. Out, out, damned punctuation!