Wing Walking - Brossura

Meredith, Don

Brossura

ISBN 10: 188151532X ISBN 13: 9781881515326

Casa editrice: Texas Review Pr, 2000

Riassunto

"Did you ever see one of those air shows they put on at county fairs? A high flying act where a woman in goggles and overalls climbs from the cockpit while the pilot puts the plane through loop-the-loops and snap rolls? . . . You know the trick that keeps her from falling? She never lets go with one hand until she's got a firm grip on something solid with the other." The hard part for Marta Sinclair, heroine of the title story of Don Meredith's collection, is to discover what is solid, what illusory. This dilemma occupies Meredith's fiction. With a style pitched to the nuances of character and setting, the stories in Wing Walking move from California's posh suburbs through the small towns of rural America to the coast of Turkey and the Tuscan hills. The characters are as diverse as the settings: from little Zatha Monroe struggling to play Mozart's D Minor Concerto on a garden hose to the shenanigans of art historian Eduardo Volpe, "skeptic, scholar, aesthete, renowned spelunker in the deep cave of the Italian Renaissance." These ten stories cover a wide range of character and feeling, but the author remains focused on the difficulty of distinguishing reality from illusion.

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Book by Meredith Don

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• Editore: Texas Review Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 188151532X
• ISBN 13: 9781881515326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 143