false 6064118 1 This book presents eleven new stories that are set in and around San Francisco by an award-winning author. The stories in this collection explore those moments when the seemingly fixed coordinates of our lives abruptly give way - when mother love fractures, a faithful husband abandons his family, a conscientious middle-class life implodes, or loyalty demands an excruciating sacrifice. The characters share a fundamental predicament, the struggle to name and embrace some faith that can break their fall. In equal measure, they hunger for and resist this elusive possibility and what it demands of them. "The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories" deals with a range of circumstances and relationships, and with characters who must decide what they are willing to risk for the sake of transformation, or for the right to refuse it. The stories trace the effort to traverse the boundaries between one state and another - between conviction and self-doubt, recklessness and despair, resignation and rebellion. And each story propels the reader to imagine what will happen next, to register the unfinished and always precarious quality of every life. 6240415 28 2 2009 The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories (WEST WORD FICTION) total:17|5:3|4:5|3:4|2:4|1:1| 17 56 37 8 4 0 false false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 23:31:32 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 23:32:09 -0700 2009
I have come to appre...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 14:54:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 17:28:58 -0700 2009 1 The Mechanics of Falling & Other Stories. In "Slender Little Thing," Brady modifies a poetic form, known as Pantoum, in which the second and fourth lines of the first stanza are repeated as the first an...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:57:32 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 10:59:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 11:23:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 12:45:34 -0700 2009
To be fair though, the title story was very good. She developed the characters so that I felt I was sitting on the porch watching them with the h...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:21:22 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 12:21:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Apr 16 13:43:13 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 13:47:52 -0700 2009 http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/writer...
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