The Time It Takes to Fall: A Novel - Softcover

Dean, Margaret Lazarus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743297237 ISBN 13: 9780743297233

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2008

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Book by Dean Margaret Lazarus

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"Margaret Dean's beautifully adroit first novel is about a fine intelligence painfully located in a girl who can barely stand to be smart, and of a whole generation lifted up, and then brought down, by the Challenger disaster. The Time It Takes to Fall is a story of liftoffs and crash landings, of growing up and growing down. It is at once a meditation on American life -- on what we know and what we can't or don't know -- and a suspenseful page-turner."
-- Charles Baxter, author of Saul and Patsy and The Feast of Love

"Taking as her backdrop the Challenger shuttle disaster, Dean subtly probes the hidden design flaws at the heart of the American family. Emulating the engineers and astronauts her characters orbit, her work is equal parts cool precision and wondrous dream. If a novel can be likened to a spacecraft -- both are an intricate assembly of hundreds of thousands of parts -- Dean's is flawlessly constructed, ready to launch the reader on a soaring emotional trajectory."
-- Peter Ho Davies, author of Equal Love and The Ugliest House in the World

"Affecting, original debut about a girl's coming-of-age, set against the backdrop of the NASA space-shuttle program...an accomplished first novel about the American family."
-- Kirkus (starred review)

Reseña del editor

Dreaming of a future in space travel while growing up in 1980s Cape Canaveral, young Dolores Gray struggles with the harsh realities of her increasingly unstable home life and is shocked by the devastating 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0743297237
• ISBN 13: 9780743297233
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336