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Against gravity

par Sally Morrison

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Against Gravity is a wonderfully quirky but seriously written comedy, in the ancient Greek sense of a revel through reality with a happy outcome. Drawing it's characters from the upper echelons of Melbourne University, it is also a sharply satirical portrayal of academic life and social mores. While Sir Hiram Pomfret, a world renowned neurophysiologist, and the Reverend Neville Cardigan struggle with the moral question of science and religion at the turn of the millennium, Pomfret's daughter-in-law Delia finds herself, as a geneticist, in a profession reviled by feminists and New Age spiritualists alike.It is Delia's journey through alienation and self-discovery that really shape the novel. Her husband - who has forever been under the shadow of his famous father, even though he is now a successful academic neurosurgeon in his own right - is a kleptomaniac and a womaniser. Delia too has had a long struggle with self-worth and how to define her place in the world, although her family background is far down the scale from her husband's: she and her twin brother were deserted by their parents and raised by an aunt, until Delia's brother also leaves. When she discovers, many years later, her brother to be the leader of a kooky new Age cult, with their mother in tow as a kind of spiritual aide, her theories of genetic inheritance versus environment are brought into even sharper relief.The title of Against Gravity is a play on the idea of levity as opposed to gravity, and is also a reference to the Newtonian force that pulls everyone down eventually, in one way or another. In this novel people fall from high places, they fall from grace, they fall under the limitations of age and gender, they fall down the stairs. Against Gravity is not simply funny, it is a profoundly witty investigation of morals, the debate between science and religion, and life as a kind of divine joke.ABOUT THE AUTHORSally Morrison was born in Sydney, grew up and was educated in Canberra, and moved to Melbourne in her twenties, where she still lives. An honours graduate in science, she worked for many years as a researcher in the field of bacterial genetics at the University of Melbourne. In the 1970 she was involved with a book publishing cooperative, Champion Books, which published poetry, art books and novels, including Sally's first novel Who's Taking You to the Dance? Patrick White bought part of the novel's print run and promoted it. Sally Morrison's collection of short stories, I Am a Boat, was published in the mid-1980s, and her second novel, Mad Meg won the 1995 NBC Banjo Award for fiction. Against Gravity is her third novel.SELLING POINTS*** Against Gravity, being the novel that follows Sally's success in the Banjo Awards will have strong review interest.*** Against Gravity can be promoted as one of the recent, highly successful genre of novels that weld science and art. What sets this one apart is it's classically comic nature.*** Mad Meg received universally positive reviews: 'wonderful mischievous energy, full of surprises, pleasures and laconic wit' (Helen Daniel, ABR) 'broad, generous and wonderfully enjoyable. It is a great pleasure to read this book' (Carmel Bird); 'this wise and balanced novel' (Canberra Times); 'an impressive work of fiction' (Andrew Riemer)… (plus d'informations)
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Against Gravity is a wonderfully quirky but seriously written comedy, in the ancient Greek sense of a revel through reality with a happy outcome. Drawing it's characters from the upper echelons of Melbourne University, it is also a sharply satirical portrayal of academic life and social mores. While Sir Hiram Pomfret, a world renowned neurophysiologist, and the Reverend Neville Cardigan struggle with the moral question of science and religion at the turn of the millennium, Pomfret's daughter-in-law Delia finds herself, as a geneticist, in a profession reviled by feminists and New Age spiritualists alike.It is Delia's journey through alienation and self-discovery that really shape the novel. Her husband - who has forever been under the shadow of his famous father, even though he is now a successful academic neurosurgeon in his own right - is a kleptomaniac and a womaniser. Delia too has had a long struggle with self-worth and how to define her place in the world, although her family background is far down the scale from her husband's: she and her twin brother were deserted by their parents and raised by an aunt, until Delia's brother also leaves. When she discovers, many years later, her brother to be the leader of a kooky new Age cult, with their mother in tow as a kind of spiritual aide, her theories of genetic inheritance versus environment are brought into even sharper relief.The title of Against Gravity is a play on the idea of levity as opposed to gravity, and is also a reference to the Newtonian force that pulls everyone down eventually, in one way or another. In this novel people fall from high places, they fall from grace, they fall under the limitations of age and gender, they fall down the stairs. Against Gravity is not simply funny, it is a profoundly witty investigation of morals, the debate between science and religion, and life as a kind of divine joke.ABOUT THE AUTHORSally Morrison was born in Sydney, grew up and was educated in Canberra, and moved to Melbourne in her twenties, where she still lives. An honours graduate in science, she worked for many years as a researcher in the field of bacterial genetics at the University of Melbourne. In the 1970 she was involved with a book publishing cooperative, Champion Books, which published poetry, art books and novels, including Sally's first novel Who's Taking You to the Dance? Patrick White bought part of the novel's print run and promoted it. Sally Morrison's collection of short stories, I Am a Boat, was published in the mid-1980s, and her second novel, Mad Meg won the 1995 NBC Banjo Award for fiction. Against Gravity is her third novel.SELLING POINTS*** Against Gravity, being the novel that follows Sally's success in the Banjo Awards will have strong review interest.*** Against Gravity can be promoted as one of the recent, highly successful genre of novels that weld science and art. What sets this one apart is it's classically comic nature.*** Mad Meg received universally positive reviews: 'wonderful mischievous energy, full of surprises, pleasures and laconic wit' (Helen Daniel, ABR) 'broad, generous and wonderfully enjoyable. It is a great pleasure to read this book' (Carmel Bird); 'this wise and balanced novel' (Canberra Times); 'an impressive work of fiction' (Andrew Riemer)

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