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Opening lines from recently published books
''I'd been brought to the hospital in wrist shackles. In a van marked CHAU CO WOMEN'S DET CT. In a shapeless gray smock, bare legs, and laceless sneakers. They'd taken away the laces because I was on suicide watch at the detention center but I would never hang myself with shoelaces! -- that's got to be a joke.'' From Man Crazy, by JOYCE CAROL OATES (Dutton, $23.95)
''A cold touch woke him from a dreamless sleep. It was the hand of a boy lying next to him, tossed by the roll of the ship in the night sea. The palm was cold, the fingers stiff.'' From Amistad, by DAVID PESCI (Marlowe & Co., $22.95)
