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Walking on Air

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William Addams is dying. Controlling, mercurial, and estranged from his family, he is consumed by the fear that he'll be abandoned by Henry and Susan, his closest friends, the only people on whom he can rely.

What he wants is for their faithfulness to last until they take him home to his beloved house to die. But as William's condition worsens, it becomes apparent that his expectations of devotion and loyalty involve not simply a loving commitment but the virtual handing over of his friends' vitality and independence; indeed, William covets their very lives.

Filled with penetrating insights and dazzling beauty, Walking on Air explores the shadowy, often disturbing parameters of devotion, demonstrating its inevitable limits as well as its astounding powers of transformation.

Author: R. S. Jones
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780060511319

About the Author
Jones, R. S.: -

R.S. Jones wrote Force of Gravity and Walking on Air, and was a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. He was president of the New York chapter of the ACT UP AIDS Awareness Organization, and editor in chief and vice president of HarperCollins Publishers.

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  • Publication Date
  • Dimensions
    8 in, 5.33 in, 0.73 in
  • Pages
    272
  • Publisher
    Harper Perennial

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Walking on Air by Jones, R. S.
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Walking on Air

$1308

William Addams is dying. Controlling, mercurial, and estranged from his family, he is consumed by the fear that he'll be abandoned by Henry and Susan, his closest friends, the only people on whom he can rely.

What he wants is for their faithfulness to last until they take him home to his beloved house to die. But as William's condition worsens, it becomes apparent that his expectations of devotion and loyalty involve not simply a loving commitment but the virtual handing over of his friends' vitality and independence; indeed, William covets their very lives.

Filled with penetrating insights and dazzling beauty, Walking on Air explores the shadowy, often disturbing parameters of devotion, demonstrating its inevitable limits as well as its astounding powers of transformation.

Author: R. S. Jones
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/08/2002
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.33w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780060511319

About the Author
Jones, R. S.: -

R.S. Jones wrote Force of Gravity and Walking on Air, and was a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award. He was president of the New York chapter of the ACT UP AIDS Awareness Organization, and editor in chief and vice president of HarperCollins Publishers.

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