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Ascension / Steven Galloway.
- Title
- Ascension / Steven Galloway.
- Author
- Galloway, Steven, 1975-
- Publication
- New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2003.
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Details
- Description
- 279 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, almost 1400 feet above the city. It is the most challenging performance of his life. Far below him in the gaping crowd, stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise: This wire walk will end his career." "In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a Transylvanian boyhood haunted by the creatures and gods of gypsy folklore and inspired by the bravery of his persecuted people. Salvo's story moves irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street life in Budapest, where he first learns the skills of a wire walker, to the carnivals of Europe, and finally, the competitive world of the American circus." "Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above the perilous world; and most endangered if performing with a net, a precaution which he eschews. Inexorably, Salvo's story leads to a powerful climax as it returns to his fateful walk between the twin towers and he promise made to his beloved Anna."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- ISBN
- 0786712082
- LCCN
- 2003055229
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries