Falling Out of Time

Melling, O. R.

ISBN 10: 0670814210 / ISBN 13: 9780670814213

Published by Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1989

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Irish/ Canadian author's first novel. A FINE book in FINE jacket.

Seller Inventory # JD1486

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Out of Time
• Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670814210
• ISBN 13: 9780670814213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Fiction

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Reviews

"On one level I am the artificer of everything that has occurred but on another I'm not," says Melling's central character and narrator, a Canadian author who has fled a failed marriage to take refuge in an artist's retreat in Ireland. As we follow Raffie, the subject of her novel-in-progress and manifestly her alter-ego, in and out of fantasies and myths peopled with gods and heroes, into the gritty reality of drug-fueled sex in contemporary Ireland, we get glimpses of the aforesaid turbulent marriage, now displaced by even more turbulent sex. Raffie, a philosophy student in Dublin; Michael, a younger, aspiring heavy metal musician; Gabriel, his darkly sinister manager, are the three players who in some way provide the storyteller's catharsis. This quirky, evanescent novel with passages of hallucinatory power and a strange, three-tier love story, ends in apt ambiguity. The Irish-born Melling, who lives in Canada, has written books for young readers; this is her first novel for adults.
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