Calling Out - Softcover

Meadows, Rae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596922206 ISBN 13: 9781596922204

Publisher: Lawson Library, 2007

Synopsis

Abandoned by her boyfriend, Jane quits her job in New York City and heads west to Salt Lake City, where she takes a job answering the phone for a Mormon-endorsed escort agency, but as she struggles with her loneliness, she herself is lured into the dangerous and seductive world of sexual commerce. A first novel.

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Review

" I recognize these dreamers and fallen angels from the books of Joan Didion and Hubert Selby and Denis Johnson, and here they spring to life in an unexpected place- the Great Salt Lake, the onetime American Holy Land that still draws wayward pilgrims. . . . In her own rush toward oblivion, our clearheaded heroine navigates among them without pity, but with a grace that ultimately make this a story not of loss, or sin, but of redemption."
-- Mark Sundeen, author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro
" [A] writer to watch."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
" Sexy [and] provocative."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
" A sexy, confident, totally winning debut. . . . [Meadows] is a shining talent."
-- Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy

"I recognize these dreamers and fallen angels from the books of Joan Didion and Hubert Selby and Denis Johnson, and here they spring to life in an unexpected place-the Great Salt Lake, the onetime American Holy Land that still draws wayward pilgrims. . . . In her own rush toward oblivion, our clearheaded heroine navigates among them without pity, but with a grace that ultimately make this a story not of loss, or sin, but of redemption."
--Mark Sundeen, author of Car Camping and The Making of Toro
"[A] writer to watch."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"Sexy [and] provocative."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"A sexy, confident, totally winning debut. . . . [Meadows] is a shining talent."
--Darin Strauss, author of Chang and Eng and The Real McCoy

About the Author

Rae Meadows is a graduate of Stanford University and the MFA program at the University of Utah. Her short stories have appeared in "Mississippi Review," "Flyway," "580 Split," and "Fine Print." She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Calling Out is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lawson Library
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596922206
• ISBN 13: 9781596922204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280