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Rockets Versus Gravity - Richard Scarsbrook

Rockets Versus Gravity

Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2016
Dundurn Group Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3386-2 (ISBN)
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The flutter of a butterfly?s wing. The typhoon halfway around the world. Events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. Rockets Versus Gravity explores the forces that change our courses and our lives, as well as the connections between us that we don?t always see.
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A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences.

Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience.

A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses four different wedding rings, and each of the lost rings symbolizes something different to the person who finds it.

There are the members of a rich family whose dramas overlap with those of the homeless people living right next door, under the bridges of the Rosedale Ravine. The wheelchair-bound teen who declares war on a man parking his luxury car in the handicapped parking spot. The would-be rock star selling insurance, whose terminal diagnosis sets his life on a new and dizzying path.

And many others. Every person is connected to every other — genetically, coincidentally, necessarily, or randomly. Every action has a consequence, seen or unseen, from the sublime to the catastrophic.

Richard Scarsbrook is the author of eight books, including The Indifference League. His short stories and poems have appeared in Descant, The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire, Matrix, The Toronto Quarterly, and the NeWest Review. He teaches creative writing courses at George Brown and Humber Colleges, and is a mentor for the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program. He lives in Toronto.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 215 mm
Gewicht 163 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Märchen / Sagen
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-4597-3386-X / 145973386X
ISBN-13 978-1-4597-3386-2 / 9781459733862
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