Mortal Leap
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 11107252
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
Pages no: 270
I'd been highly recommended Mortal Leap for about a year and a half before I finally requested it through inter-library loan (my reading time may be infringed upon by my grad student life but I wouldn't give up the library privileges for the world, except maybe graduating eventually). It showed up r...
”You! You!” I shouted. “Pay attention, God damn it, now listen to me!” Probably I was still drunk from the whiskey. I threw a crowbar, a heavy one; it soared end-over-end and vanished softly and invisibly like a bird.“Listen! this is serious!” I yelled.It wasn’t that there was nothing there. It was ...
i will never be able to say enough about mortal leap: the plot and its turns, the characterization, the relationships, and above all, the intelligence and heart that went into this book. this deeply resonant, erudite and accessible, sadly out-of-print novel is pointedly prefaced by a quote from pasc...