Watson's sparkling, delightful new novel--about a French tightrope walker and a widowed Nebraska schoolteacher who meet in Niagara Falls, N.Y., become lovers, perform daredevil stunts and go their separate ways--is a witty meditation on miscommunication between the sexes.-- Publishers Weekly [starred review] "Rich with metaphor."-- Newsday
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Watson's sparkling, delightful new novel--about a French tightrope walker and a widowed Nebraska schoolteacher who meet in Niagara Falls, N.Y., become lovers, perform daredevil stunts and go their separate ways--is a witty meditation on miscommunication between the sexes.-- Publishers Weekly [starred review] "Rich with metaphor."-- Newsday
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Very Good. NICE BOOK! MILD SHELF WEAR ON DUSTJACKET, NO MARKINGS. "Publishers Weekly: Watson's ( The Runner ) sparkling, delightful new novel--about a French tightrope walker and a widowed Nebraska schoolteacher who meet in Niagara Falls, N.Y., become lovers, perform daredevil stunts and go their separate ways--is a witty meditation on miscommunication between the sexes. French high-wire artist "The Great Gravelet" fancies himself an embodiment of perfection and a gallant ladies' man. Anna Taylor, cigar-smoking, obese, grittily independent and 15 years Gravelet's senior, becomes a prop in his act: he strings a cable across the Whirlpool Rapids next to Niagara Falls and pushes her across in a wheelbarrow on Independence Day 1901. Later Anna, determined to be known for something and unable to convince Gravelet to teach her the wire, becomes the first person to go over the Falls in a barrel and survive. The two accidentally meet again in 1921, in a sad, grotesque reunion. The story is told first by Gravelet and then by Anna, in wildly divergent narratives that interweave sprightly commentaries on art, mortality, women's inferior social status and the differences between an ethereal Continental consciousness and rock-solid American pragmatism. In this assured, witty, imaginative novel, Watson effectively uses the high wire and the Falls plunge as metaphors for the intrepid navigations of life. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc."
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Fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'For Catherine, Love Red' and separately signed by author on title page. 1st edition, no number line (Coffeehouse Press does not identify printings). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. Dust jacket has slight crimping to cap of spine. Book as new except for barely visible shelfwear to bottoms of boards. A novel by the author of 'Under Plowman's Floor' and 'The Runner'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
