Flight
Subtitle
Stories
Flight brings 10 stories together, often drawing us into landscapes so foreign that they defy what we know of our daily reality. We're with the fattest woman on Earth as she draws her last breaths and her soul ascends toward its final reward. We meet a divorcee who can fly for no more effort than flapping her arms. We follow a middle-aged butler whose love affair with a young woman leads him first to the mysteries of bondage, and then to the pleasures of malice. Story by story, we set foot into worlds so strange as to seem all but surreal, yet everything feels familiar, each moment rings true. And that’s when we recognize we’re in the hands of one of America’s truly original talents.
Bio
J. (Jay) Boyer is professor emeritus of English at Arizona State University.
Praise for this book
Boyer is many writers in one: a magisterial and mercurial stylist and synthesizer of styles (who else could sound so like Henry James and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the course of a single sentence?); a spinner of engaging and challenging yarns; a dramatist, who deploys dialogue with precise deftness; and, most importantly, a sage who wrestles with the most profound secrets of human existence. 'Flight' is fiction of the highest order, by a thoroughly realized writer who has both evolved and perfected his work via years of simply writing, and simply living a life.
T. R. Hummer Author of "Ephemeron"
