Breaking Her Fall

Goodwin, Stephen

ISBN 10: 015100806X ISBN 13: 9780151008063

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003

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"Breaking Her Fall is a corker-- vivid, brilliantly marbled with harmonies and textures and people vibrant with life." -- Richard Bausch

Just before eleven on an ordinary summer night in Washington, D.C., Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to hear that his teenage daughter, Kat, is back from the movies. But the caller is another parent, a man who tells Tucker that Kat was actually at a party-- and makes a shocking allegation about what happened to her there. From that moment Breaking Her Fall sweeps irresistibly forward to it s wrenching, and redemptive, conclusion.

In a blind rage, Tucker races to the party to find Kat already departed, but his full-boil interrogation of the boys still present spills over into a confrontation-- and ends with one of the boys crashing into a glass tabletop. In a second, his rage turns to remorse, and he soon finds himself under arrest. Tucker could easily lose his home and his business, but he is most concerned about losing his daughter.

Stephen Goodwin writes with insight and rare power about the way that passion rearranges lives. As Tucker and Kat and everyone around them seek to repair the damages of that night, Breaking Her Fall charts their uncommonly difficult passage from despair to reconciliation and hope with extraordinary grace.

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Stephen Goodwin is a professor of creative writing at George Mason University and the author of two novels and a nonfiction book. For two years, Goodwin directed the literature program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and he served as president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

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"BREAKING HER FALL is a frank, plain-spoken, passionate novel that got its grips on me. It is, in one sense, a page turner, and in another a true and good story of human frailty and imperfection survived." - Richard Ford

On an ordinary summer night in 1998, my daughter, Kathryn - Kat, we all called her, a fourteen-year-old who still liked to wear her blond hair in pigtails - told me that she was going to the movies with Abby, her best friend, but they never got there. Instead, they hooked up with some other kids, and decided to blow off the movie. It was a hot, dense Washington night, and one of the boys - Jed Vandenberg - invited everybody back to his house. He had a pool. His parents were away. The kids started drinking beer and vodka shooters. Just before eleven, when Kat was supposed to phone to let me know she was safe at Abby's house, I got a call from a stranger.

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"BREAKING HER FALL is a frank, plain-spoken, passionate novel that got its grips on me. It is, in one sense, a page turner, and in another a true and good story of human frailty and imperfection survived." - Richard Ford

On an ordinary summer night in 1998, my daughter, Kathryn - Kat, we all called her, a fourteen-year-old who still liked to wear her blond hair in pigtails - told me that she was going to the movies with Abby, her best friend, but they never got there. Instead, they hooked up with some other kids, and decided to blow off the movie. It was a hot, dense Washington night, and one of the boys - Jed Vandenberg - invited everybody back to his house. He had a pool. His parents were away. The kids started drinking beer and vodka shooters. Just before eleven, when Kat was supposed to phone to let me know she was safe at Abby's house, I got a call from a stranger.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 015100806X
• ISBN 13: 9780151008063
• Einband: Unbekannter Einband
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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