Falling Room by Eli Hastings
A tale of how one young man matures through the sometimes violent blessing of social change and finds himself - and a sense of purpose - through the loss of innocence and naivete, the Seattle of his youth, and his father.-
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
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Local Wonders
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The Heart Folds Early
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The Perils of Girlhood
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Just Breathe Normally
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This Is not the Ivy League
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The Virgin of Prince Street
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Songs from the Black Chair
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Gang of One
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Jesse Jackson
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Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt
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Rare Good
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Island in the City
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The Solace of Stones
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American Lives
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Bigger Than Life
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And You Will Call It Fate
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Ravelings
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Thoughts from a Queen-Sized Bed
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Character Witness
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Tell Me About Your Bad Guys
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Thank You for Staying with Me
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Luisa Moreno
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In Rooms of Memory
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Shift
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This Fish Is Fowl
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It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know
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The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet
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The Pat Boone Fan Club
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The Days Are Gods
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Searching for Tamsen Donner
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Weeds
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Hannah and the Mountain
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Homing
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If This Were Fiction
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The Distance Between
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Should I Still Wish
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The Sound of Undoing
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Body Geographic
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Autumn Song
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Let Me Count the Ways
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Julia Ward Howe
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Out of Joint
"Falling Room is a wild romp of memoir, politics, and experimentationThis is a book about the origin of protest--about finding, challenging, understanding, and ultimately forgiving the father and the fatherland. It's full of tremendous talent, beauty, and energy."--Sarah Messer, author of Bandit Letters and Red House "Time and again I came across passages that just floored me--images that were so vivid and right that they catapulted me right to the scene of the story, turns of phrases that captured some elemental truth about the way things are, the way people think and behave."--Philip Gerard, author of Cape Fear and Creative Nonfiction: Researching and Crafting Stories of Real Life "In Falling Room, Eli Hastings moves beyond mere anger to write with a passion that fuses pain and tenderness, anger and sympathy. I emerged out the other side of this immensely readable book bruised but full of wild hope."--Sebastian Matthews, author of In My Father's Footsteps "Falling Room is musical. It is worldly. It is intimate and concerned. Again and again I was impressed by the great democracy and tenderness in these pages, by these essays' remodeling of the urban and the pastoral, by their revelation of landscapes disparate and glaring. I finished feeling I'd been party to a mad and jubilant trip. A writer like Eli Hastings gives me hope in many things."--Brad Land, author of Goat: A Memoir
Eli Hastings is a Seattle native who now lives in Barcelona, Spain. He received an mfa in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and has published in numerous literary journals. He has worked in food service and retail sales, as a creative writing teacher and a manual laborer, as a Get-Out-the-Vote coordinator and a health care and utilities campaign coordinator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803273641 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803273649 |
| Title | Falling Room |
| Author | Eli Hastings |
| Series | American Lives |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2006-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 180 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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