FALLING

by Harris Dulany ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 26, 1971

In a gasoline-scented present tense it's the story of Ronnie Mandeville, a small-town boxer minus class and one tooth, his bike and stock-car racing dad Hank who is gone but not forgotten, and the family females who in one way or another have helped to drive them over the edge. Little Bunnie, with her cold, cold adolescent heart, heats brotherly love to the boiling point; and Mom Virginia Jane just can't be true, unless it's to the pompadoured high-school swain Hank once nearly killed, or possibly to Boyd from the filling station. This is just one day in Ronnie's life, but it's definitely one of those days, what with Hank's funeral and a crucial fight and his head beginning to go haywire. For most of the way Dulany holds to a convincingly dreary, low-geared realism -- then doubleclutch and crash!

Pub Date: April 26, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McCall

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1971

Categories: FICTION