The Light of Falling Stars

J. Robert Lennon

Release Date: July 11, 2013

eBook Price: $7.99

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DESCRIPTION

A crash of an airplane and its aftermath--how do we find those that we love, both before and after death. The plane falls from the sky as a couple argues in their yard; a few miles away, a young man waits for his girlfriend at the airport; an old woman anticipates the return of the husband who left her many years ago. The crash has a single survivor and he's witness to the dissolution of the marriage of the couple that argued as the plane crashed. Lennon deptics the lives of these and other residents of Marshall as they struggle to recover normalcy in their lives.

 

PRAISE

"Welcome back to story telling." —Time Out New York

"Lennon's impressive first novel--psychologically nuanced, richly detailed, unexpectedly comic--offers us an unsentimental examination of the ways in which we find and lose those we lose, both before and after death." —The New Yorker

"Lennon's lushly descriptive style speaks directly and metaphorically at the same time....A voice with real promise" —San Francisco Chronicle


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. Robert Lennon is the author of a story collection, Pieces For The Left Hand, and seven novels, including Mailman, Castle, and Familiar. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and his story "The Rememberer" inspired the CBS detective series Unforgettable. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.