{"product_id":"amy-falls-down-paperback-1","title":"Amy Falls Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJincy Willett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Gallup is an aging novelist and writing instructor living in Escondido, California, with her dog, Alphonse. Since recent unsettling events, she has made some progress. While she still has writer's block, she doesn't suffer from it. She's still a hermit, but she has allowed some of her class members into her life. She is no longer numb, angry, and sardonic: she is merely numb and bemused, which is as close to happy as she plans to get. Amy is calm. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo, when on New Year's morning she shuffles out to her backyard garden to plant a Norfolk pine, she is wholly unprepared for what happens next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy falls down. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA simple accident, as a result of which something happens, and then something else, and then a number of different things, all as unpredictable as an eight-ball break. At first the changes are small, but as these small events carom off one another, Amy's life changes in ways that range from ridiculous to frightening to profound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis most reluctant of adventurers is dragged and propelled by train, plane, and automobile through an outlandish series of antic media events on her way to becoming--to her horror--a kind of celebrity. And along the way, as the numbness begins to wear off, she comes up against something she has avoided all her life: her future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJincy Willett's \u003ci\u003eAmy Falls Down\u003c\/i\u003e explores, through the experience of one character, the role that accident plays in all our lives. You turn a corner and beasts break into arias, gunfire erupts, waking a hundred families, starting a hundred different conversations. You crack your head open and three thousand miles away a stranger with Asperger's jump-starts your career. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe are all like Amy. We are all wholly unprepared for what happens next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso, there's a basset hound.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJincy Willett\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eJenny and the Jaws of Life, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinner of the National Book Award, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Writing Class, \u003c\/i\u003e which have been translated and sold internationally\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have been published in \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and other magazines. She frequently reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Willett spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights teaching and writing--sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47240006205689,"sku":"9781250050250","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QmMyZXloMEl6OFhaT2pFV0NlTFFFdz09_71e0889e-f613-4a94-96bf-555f52e16b4a.webp?v=1768565989","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/amy-falls-down-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}