The Wonder Book of the Air (Paperback)
| Author: Cynthia Shearer |
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| In electrifying prose and with a rare generosity of feeling, this dramatic and piercing debut novel tells the story of the fractured lives of three generations of one Southern family. "Magnificent . . . brims with characters who seem truer than life."--Kaye Gibbons. |
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In electrifying prose and with a rare generosity of feeling, this dramatic and piercing debut novel tells the story of the fractured lives of three generations of one Southern family. "Magnificent . . . brims with characters who seem truer than life."--Kaye Gibbons.The shattered lives of three generations of a Southern family center around Harrison Durrance, a magnetic man who thrives on the danger and heroism of World War II combat but who loses himself, sabotages his career, and brutalizes his family in the peace that follows |
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"In a disturbing account of three generations, Shearer's debut uses a series of first-person narratives to trace the disintegration of a southern family's happiness...A confident and daring debut, using the microcosm of this family's fall as an emblem of the American dream gone bad." 12/01/1995 San Francisco Chronicle
"Shearer's language is always lucid, lyrical and to the point. It makes 'The Wonder Book of Air' a pleasure to read."
"In a disturbing account of three generations, Shearer's debut uses a series of first-person narratives to trace the disintegration of a southern family's happiness...A confident and daring debut, using the microcosm of this family's fall as an emblem of the American dream gone bad." 12/01/1995 San Francisco Chronicle
"Shearer's language is always lucid, lyrical and to the point. It makes 'The Wonder Book of Air' a pleasure to read."
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