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

Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781622882175
ISBN-13 : 1622882172
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Book Synopsis Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories by : Jeff Fearnside

Download or read book Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air: and Other Stories written by Jeff Fearnside and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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