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When her rakish, gambling father abandons the family, pool hustler Cassie Claiborne is forced into a position of abandoning her own dreams to take care of her distant mother and fragile older sister, until, at the age of thirty, she comes up with a way to redeem her life. By the author of The Solace of Leaving Early. 75,000 first printing.
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"Something Rising (Light and Swift) is a stunner of a story that continues Kimmel's tradition of mixing page-turning narrative with heartbreaking honesty...Kimmel is a master of making [details] -- the stuff of everyday life -- endlessly readable." -- BookPage
""Something Rising (Light and Swift)" is a stunner of a story that continues Kimmel's tradition of mixing page-turning narrative with heartbreaking honesty...Kimmel is a master of making [details] -- the stuff of everyday life -- endlessly readable."
-- "BookPage"
"Kimmel, who clearly knows her way around a pool table, writes some mean sentences, as crisp as a perfectly executed bank shot."
-- "USA Today"
"Kimmel reveals a Midwest that lies beyond the normal small-town, apple pie, heartland caricatures...Sam Shepard, eat your heart out!"
-- "Elle"
"Haven Kimmel hustles up a girl to steal your heart...If this book were a pool game, Kimmel would run the table all night long."
-- "Newsweek"
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""Something Rising (Light and Swift)" is a stunner of a story that continues Kimmel's tradition of mixing page-turning narrative with heartbreaking honesty...Kimmel is a master of making [details] -- the stuff of everyday life -- endlessly readable."
-- "BookPage"
"Kimmel, who clearly knows her way around a pool table, writes some mean sentences, as crisp as a perfectly executed bank shot."
-- "USA Today"
"Kimmel reveals a Midwest that lies beyond the normal small-town, apple pie, heartland caricatures...Sam Shepard, eat your heart out!"
-- "Elle"
"Haven Kimmel hustles up a girl to steal your heart...If this book were a pool game, Kimmel would run the table all night long."
-- "Newsweek"
Haven Kimmel is the author of The Used World, She Got Up Off the Couch, Something Rising (Light and Swift), The Solace of Leaving Early, and A Girl Named Zippy. She studied English and creative writing at Ball State University and North Carolina State University and attended seminary at the Earlham School of Religion. She lives in Durham, N.C.
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- PublisherFree Pr
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0743247752
- ISBN 13 9780743247757
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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