All talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this
meandering and captivating debut It's a hot summer night, and Hugh
Dalgarno, a 31-year-old clerical worker, thinks his brain is
broken. Over the course of a day and night in an uncannily
depopulated public park, he will sift through the pieces and
traverse the baroque landscape of his own thoughts: the theology of
nosiness, the beauty of the arbutus tree, the pathos of Gene
Hackman, the theory of quantum immortality, Louis Riel's letter to
an Irish newspaper, the baleful influence of Calvinism on the
Scottish working class, the sea, the CIA, and, ultimately, thinking
itself and how it may be represented in writing. The result is a
strange, meandering sojourn, as if the history-haunted landscapes
of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn were shrunk down to a mere 85
acres. These digressions are anchored by remarks from the letters
of Keats, by snatches of lyrics from Irish rebel songs and Scottish
folk ballads, and, above all else, by the world-shattering call of
the red-winged blackbird. "From the first page to the last I felt
wholly captivated by Falling Hour and Hugh's sensitive and
far-ranging digressions. Morrison has captured the magic of Sebald
and made it entirely his own, a curiously anti-capitalist
exploration of what it means to live in a "fake" country. " - Andre
Babyn, author of Evie of the Deepthorn "Falling Hour is a profound
incantatory exhalation - a quiet triumph; to read it is to engage
in a smart, humane and at times very funny conversation that you
will never want to end." - Simon Okotie, author of After Absalon "A
stellar debut novel by a stellar new talent. Falling Hour is
written in a prose style that enlivens every page." - Mauro Javier
Cardenas, author of Aphasia: A Novel "In Falling Hour, an immensity
is condensed into a single day, a single park, a single empty
frame. To themes of loss and dispossession that recall in scope and
sensitivity the work of Teju Cole and W.G. Sebald, Morrison brings
the attentive eye of a poet and a truly impish sense of the
absurd." - Jen Craig, author of Panthers and the Museum of Fire
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