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Swimming in Sky A Novel by Inman Majors |
Twenty-five-year-old Jason Sayer has lost his nerve. An unemployed Vanderbilt graduate who's temporarily taken up residence with his mother and her live-in boyfriend, Jason is adrift in the summery haze of suburban Knoxville. The narrative spans four months in Jason's life shortly after his return from a disillusioning journey to Australia in search of himself. Compounding his sense of undefined gloom is a recent ill-timed acid trip that has left him estranged from old friends, wary of their intentions toward him. Two generations off the farm, living in what he calls a "strip mall world," Jason grapples with his past as he searches for a way to make sense of the present and recapture his old confidence.
In a witty, subversive voice, Jason traces the limits of the frayed formality of the New South, casting light on youthful aspirations lost and found. Fast-paced and funny, Majors's debut novel explores a twenty-something's reading of fractured family relationships, the raveling edges of friendships, and what's left of traditional spirituality in his life.
Raised in Knoxville and a sixth-generation Tennessean, INMAN MAJORS now lives in Tullahoma with his wife, Christy. He teaches at Motlow State Community College in southern middle Tennessee, not far from the site of his great-grandfather's mule-trading auction barn.
"It's as if Holden Caulfield has grown up, but not been much changed, as if his intensity has become southern, rather than northeastern. Full of dazzling energy. I am moved by the clarity and tenderness with which Jason sees his inner world and his family."-Liza Wieland
Swimming in Sky
0-87074-455-0
$19.95
6x9. 192 pp.
Fiction.
OCTOBER
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