Bending heaven
Subtitle: stories
By: Jessica Francis Kane.
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; London (England) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in the United States and London, this debut collection introduces us to a cast of characters, some anguished in their pursuit of impractical dreams, others struggling to make sense of their failures.

A mathematician who has forsaken everything in order to prove a theory; an older woman author achieving fame late in life; a guilt-ridden mother struggling to impress her teenage daughter; an unhappy lawyer attempting to survive a corporate retreat with dignity - all are ambitious and passionate, but to their dismay find themselves at odds with the pattern of their lives.

Attempting to make a new beginning or heal a hurt, they are thwarted by embarrassing impulsiveness or a sudden lack of faith."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Evidence of old repairs; title: Refuge; title: How to become a publicist; title: First sale; title: Exposure; title: Ideas of home, but not the thing itself; title: Paris; title: The Arnold proof; title: Pantomime; title: The trailing spouse; title: Wreckers.