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Chargement... The fall of gravity: A novelpar Leon Rooke
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From a master conjurer of fictional invention comes an irresistible high octane road novel that propels the reader through breathtakingly original landscape replete with unforgettable characters and extraordinary adventures. Raoul Daggle is desperately searching for his disappearing wife on the lam. She has been sighted in a number of different states and provinces. Obsessed, he drives across the continent in his brand new Infiniti 2000 trying to track her down, all the while engaged in the most hilarious dialogue with his precocious ten-year-old daughter Juliette. Meanwhile, his wife, Joyel Daggle, drives madly to escape them across the same landscape but in slightly altered time and space. Told with the inspired wit of a magus in love with a wicked world, this is a deeply affecting magical mystery tour of a dislocated psyche and one family's passage through the dark night of the road into unexpected sunny uplands. Here is the critically acclaimed novelist and short-fiction writer Leon Rooke writing at his very best. The Fall of Gravity is a novel to make one whistle and sing with sheer joy of its infectious elan. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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At its most basic, this book tells the story of the Daggle family. Joyel Daggle left her home, her husband and daughter a year ago. The husband, Raoul, and the daughter, Juliette, are driving west to try to intercept Joyel who was spotted in Cut Bank, Wyoming. Joyel, meanwhile, is driving east from Cut Bank. Each party meets interesting characters along the way. Raoul is particularly fascinated by priests who have fallen from heaven. Joyel meets Tom who tours with a giant wooden statue of Crazy Horse. These characters pop up frequently along the way and eventually everyone lands in the same small town during a blizzard.
I guess I am too linear in my thinking to be completely satisfied by the ending. To my mind there are too many loose ends. Like who is the man in the brown suit who has been following Joyel ever since she left California and why did the dog who hitched a ride with Joyel suddenly decide to be let out?
It is an entertaining read and Rooke certainly has a creative mind. It might appeal to someone more than to me. ( )