Amy Falls Down |
Book Category:
Fiction > General
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Author:
Willett, Jincy
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Binding:
Hardcover
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ISBN 13:
9781250028273
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Price:
USD 24.99
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Publication Year:
2013
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Publisher Info
Talia Sherer,
Macmillan,175 Fifth Avenue, 21st Floor,
New York ,
New York - 10010,USA Inquiry
Amy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she is merely numb and bemused, which is as close to happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm.So, when on New Year's morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next.Amy falls down.A simple accident, as a result of which something happens, and then something else, and then a number of different things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. At first the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amy's life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound.