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Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories / Jeff Fearnside.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fearnside, Jeff, auteur.
- Standardized Title:
- Nouvelles. Extraits
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction.
- American fiction--21st century.
- Genre:
- Ressources Internet.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 ressource en ligne (xi, 175 pages) :) portrait.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: And Other Stories 's 13 short stories are linked thematically by the recurring idea of flight, in its various definitions and senses. The characters are sometimes in flight from their situations, sometimes from other people, sometimes from themselves. Stories range from contemporary to historical, from realistic to magical realist. The known and the unknown often blur as the characters struggle to understand the unseen forces that move them. Ultimately, the crises that all the characters encounter are psychological or spiritual in some way, however each may define that; as the title of the collection suggests, the characters find themselves levitating somewhere between their deepest desires and an exquisite and terrifying nothingness. No one in these stories "wins" in the traditional sense; there are no tidy answers. But the stories are subtly life affirming in how each character deals with the difficulties of life. Each learns something about himself or herself, however fleeting that knowledge may be, however small a step forward it inspires. Life isn't static, and neither are these people.
- Contents:
- Nuclear toughskins
- Clean
- Every living thing that moves
- A story of my very own
- Stars
- Maps and compasses
- She was a winter
- Making love while levitating three feet in the air
- Little murders
- Going for broke
- The cat people
- The great silver cactus of Griggs, Idaho
- Wing walking.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781622882175
- 1622882172
- OCLC:
- 1052494746
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