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In his first novel, Thomas Farber gives us an unusually honest look inside the heart of a man trying to understand the curves of pursuit in his own life. His ties, for example, to his older brother: as boys and on into adulthood, the two communicate best with a football, sending each other out for passes, cheering each other on with their private polylingual wordplay. The pattern that exists with the parents is another, a curve of pursuit marked always by the imminence and the memory of death. And so too with his marriage, where all that is between him and his wife is richly verbal, intricate, and in real jeopardy, and where their cats are the witnesses to the intensity of what binds them. Despite the narrator's feeling of loss, and despite his remorse, we begin to see with them perhaps certain connections which simply cannot be severed. That whatever else is also true, the bonds of love may persist.
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About the Author:
THOMAS FARBER
Recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment, Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor fellowships, author of many works of fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit Thomas Farber on the web at thomasfarber.org
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Recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment, Rockefeller, Fulbright, and Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor fellowships, author of many works of fiction and creative nonfiction, Thomas Farber is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Visit Thomas Farber on the web at thomasfarber.org
Thomas Farber's first-person narrative is warm and oddly comforting. Usually, books about dissolving relationships are bitter and frightening, but in Farber there is gentleness and a search for understanding...[The narrator's] illusions and his hopes are so skillfully told that they become a part of our own dreams. Curves of Pursuit tells the story of relationships, the unraveling and the mending of them, in a unique way.
--Raleigh News and Observer
An impressive work from a special, energetiic talent, presented with deceptive simplicity and delicate amusement.
--Kirkus Reviews
Like the book's themes, its structure is a continual surprise of perspective...a beautiful feeling of everything coming together in space and time--and yes even in a kind of love.
--The New York Times
Farber's treatment of football as metaphor... is extraordinary...his mastery of the short story is seen in the vignette-like structure of this novel.
--Hartford Courant
Farber seizes precisely upon the feeling of each moment. The sensibility of the narrator is exquisite.
--Los Angeles Times
--Raleigh News and Observer
An impressive work from a special, energetiic talent, presented with deceptive simplicity and delicate amusement.
--Kirkus Reviews
Like the book's themes, its structure is a continual surprise of perspective...a beautiful feeling of everything coming together in space and time--and yes even in a kind of love.
--The New York Times
Farber's treatment of football as metaphor... is extraordinary...his mastery of the short story is seen in the vignette-like structure of this novel.
--Hartford Courant
Farber seizes precisely upon the feeling of each moment. The sensibility of the narrator is exquisite.
--Los Angeles Times
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- PublisherAvon
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0380698382
- ISBN 13 9780380698387
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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