Reviews
"While each story stands alone, each is also connected to the others. Together, they weave a loose history of the lives of characters Orion and Helen. The progress of these individuals through time is chronicled with brief and tantalizing glimpses at the events that shaped their lives. The overall tone is dark and moody, reflecting the tragedies of everyday life. Dialog and description are skillfully rendered. This is a fascinating storytelling technique."
—Library Journal
Description
Low Flying Aircraft is a collection of interrelated stories in which one life is equally capable of influencing another “under a sky the size of history.”
Spanning a period of fourteen years, the stories are connected by the pasts of Orion McClenahan and Helen Jowalski, childhood friends whose fathers shared a law practice in Chicago. In 1976 a freak accident changes their lives irrevocably, and the stories are about the people Orion and Helen grow up to be, the people they love, and the people they lose along the way.
In “Paris, the Easy Way,” Sam is a stable manager who steps in to the lives of others while trying to avoid his own. Troubled by the disappearance of his brother in Cambodia and his own complicated relationship with his brother’s wife, Sam finally accepts the mysteries that surround him: “Lightning, gravity, love—I’ve never properly understood any of it.” Anna, a columnist…
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Paper List price: Your price: 4/15/2008 |
T. M. McNally is the author of six works of fiction, including the new story collection The Gateway and the novel Until Your Heart Stops (a New York Times Notable Book). His stories have appeared in Conjunctions, DoubleTake, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He teaches at Arizona State University.
