Kindle Price: | $6.99 |
Sold by: | Amazon.com Services LLC |
Your Memberships & Subscriptions
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle for Web.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
Follow the author
OK
The Light of Falling Stars Kindle Edition
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 2, 2019
- File size2090 KB
Customers who viewed this item also viewed
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From The New Yorker
From Booklist
From Kirkus Reviews
Review
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B0829BCYMT
- Publisher : J. Robert Lennon (December 2, 2019)
- Publication date : December 2, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 2090 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 306 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,806,932 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,311 in Psychological Literary Fiction
- #111,247 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
J. Robert Lennon is the author of two story collections, Pieces For The Left Hand and See You in Paradise, and eight novels, including Mailman, Castle, Familiar, and Broken River. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana, and has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper's, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. He has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, and he lives in Ithaca, New York, where he teaches writing at Cornell University.
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon-
Top reviews
Top reviews from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
For my money, I preferred the other Lennon novel I read a while back, called ON THE NIGHT PLAIN. A much tighter book with better-defined and sympathetic characters. (See my review.) So I don't think I'll give up on J. Robert Lennon yet. If I run across another of his books, I'll probably give it a try.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir BOOKLOVER
I think it works because it opens out whatever personal, individual loss and grief the reader has experienced into the universal experience. No heartwarming stories of successful family life, but also nothing that leaves you feeling a nagging sense of failure about your own. Instead there is a feeling of having company, of not being isolated. This begins early on in the novel, right after the plane crash. There is a waiting room full of people at the airport, waiting to meet relatives and friends on the flight, and more people on the phone asking for the expected time of arrival of the plane. There is no experienced team of 'professional' grief counselors on hand, only the regular small airport staff. These untried employees are themselves grieving -- the crashed plane carried their own friends and colleagues. And so it goes through the ensuing stories, just a lot of grief all round and people muddling through what life has seen fit to deal them. The resilience of the youngsters is touching, the stoic endurance of the elders is strengthening. There is something here for everyone. One of the best lines is when Lars, a youngster, finally goes to the site of the remains of the crash that killed his girlfriend: "His sense was that this place was far from death -- it was more like a spot where Megan had waited for him, then given up, finally, and left. This sense, certainly, encompassed loneliness and loss, but not despair."