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"Did you ever see one of those air shows they put on at county fairs? A high flying act where a woman in goggles and overalls climbs from the cockpit while the pilot puts the plane through loop-the-loops and snap rolls? . . . You know the trick that keeps her from falling? She never lets go with one hand until she's got a firm grip on something solid with the other." The hard part for Marta Sinclair, heroine of the title story of Don Meredith's collection, is to discover what is solid, what illusory.

This dilemma occupies Meredith's fiction. With a style pitched to the nuances of character and setting, the stories in Wing Walking move from California's posh suburbs through the small towns of rural America to the coast of Turkey and the Tuscan hills. The characters are as diverse as the settings: from little Zatha Monroe struggling to play Mozart's D Minor Concerto on a garden hose to the shenanigans of art historian Eduardo Volpe, "skeptic, scholar, aesthete, renowned spelunker in the deep cave of the Italian Renaissance." These ten stories cover a wide range of character and feeling, but the author remains focused on the difficulty of distinguishing reality from illusion.

From Desert Music
That's Gladys Rose on the carpet, legs above her head, the pink balls of her feet pressing wallpaper of purest eggshell blue. From his vantage in the dinette, Barney sees that despite the puffiness and the blue squiggles of her veins, Gladys Rose still has pretty good legs.

Gladys Rose wants to know what Barney plans to do with his retirement. This afternoon, down at Ferucci Casting they gave him a Hallmark card, a gold watch and a pat on the back. The card bore twenty-seven signatures. The watch is gold-filled with Japanese works and has a digital readout he can't see without his glasses.
About the Author: Born and raised in Southern California, DON MEREDITH migrated to San Francisco in 1960. Within a few years he sailed for Europe, where he lived on a Dalmatian island, then for ten years on a Tuscan farm. Twice a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, he's the author of novels, short stories, essays and travel articles. Meredith's publications include two novels, Morning Line and Home Movies, and a collection of essays due out in late 2000 from The University of South Carolina Press, Where the Tigers Were: Travels Through Literary Landscapes. He and his wife Josie make their home on Lamu Island, Kenya.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781881515326
  • Publisher: Texas Review Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Texas Review Press
  • Edition: 1
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 299 gr
  • ISBN-10: 188151532X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2000
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 215 mm
  • No of Pages: 160
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 138 mm


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