Fall and Rise [Hardcover]

Stephen Dixon (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: North Point Pr; First edtiion edition (May 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0865471924
• ISBN-13: 978-0865471924
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,140,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen Dixon is the author of twenty-seven works of fiction including, most recently, Phone Rings and Old Friends (both published by Melville House). His novels Interstate and Frog were both finalists for the National Book Award. Frog was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His work has received the O. Henry Award, the Best American Short Stories award, the Pushcart Prize, The American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, and he has been a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars a Miss, March 5, 2006

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Tom Gillis (Kensington, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fall and Rise (Hardcover)

I haven't written a review for several years, because Amazon reviews have become so bizarre. Review space appears to have become some kind of weird political space rather than a real review space.

That said, I'm very disappointed in this book (I understand I'm the only reviewer to date, despite it being published 20+ years ago). The author tried to give us a "stream of consciousnes" novel, and instead we got mush.

Maybe it just wasn't my style. I found the major characters unsympathetic. Given that the author appeared to be relying on sympathy for those pathetic characters....