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Swimming in sky

Title
Swimming in sky / a novel by Inman Majors.
Author
Majors, Inman.
Publication
Dallas, Tex. : Southern Methodist University Press, 2000.

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241 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • "I sit down in Pel's dad's old recliner, recently claimed from the storage box, the divorce box, his mother keeps for all the furniture that won't fit in her apartment. We're all divorce kids, all suburban orphans of a sort. The stories are different and the same as we've fallen socially and economically down the food chain. But in a strange and sentimental homage to familial comfort, we've held on to that suburban love of the den, most casual of rooms, most comfortable.
  • We've moved from rented den to rented den to rented den, with the same accoutrements, the same ragged couches, music posters, mismatched assortment of lamps and bookcases and end tables, the same beat-up coffee tables strewn with bottles and magazines and dope paraphernalia and remote control. The shut in, blinds down, stereo on, TV muted smell of dope. And the days I've spent in such a theatre, the years, watching the giggly houdini of passing time."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • College graduates > Fiction
  • Mothers and sons > Fiction
  • Unemployed > Fiction
  • Young men > Fiction
  • Knoxville (Tenn.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Bildungsromans.
ISBN
0870744550 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
00057398
OCLC
  • ocm44592684
  • SCSB-3986636
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries