Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories

Fearnside, Jeff

ISBN 10: 1622881036 / ISBN 13: 9781622881031

Verlag: Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2016

Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers B12N-01419

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Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air:And Other Stories of Flight’s 13 short stories arelinked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, inits various definitions and senses. The characters aresometimes in flight from their situations, sometimesfrom other people, sometimes from themselves.

Stories range from contemporary to historical,from realistic to magical realist. The known andthe unknown often blur as the characters struggleto understand the unseen forces that move them..Ultimately, the crises that all the charactersencounter are psychological or spiritual in someway, however each may define that; as the title of thecollection suggests, the characters find themselveslevitating somewhere between their deepest desiresand an exquisite and terrifying nothingness.

No one in these stories “wins” in the traditionalsense; there are no tidy answers. But the stories aresubtly life affirming in how each character deals withthe difficulties of life. Each learns something abouthimself or herself, however fleeting that knowledgemay be, however small a step forward it inspires.Life isn’t static, and neither are these people.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jeff Fearnside has published work in Fjords Review,The Journal, Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of several national writing awards, including Many Mountains Moving’s 2005 Flash Fiction Contest.

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Titel: Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in ...
Verlag: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: As New