Rockets Versus Gravity - by Richard Scarsbrook (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The flutter of a butterfly᾿s wing. The typhoon halfway around the world. Events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. <i>Rockets Versus Gravity</i> explores the forces that change our courses and our lives, as well as the connections between us that we don᾿t always see.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A <i>National Post</i> Bestseller!<br/> A multi-faceted story that explores how small actions and changes can give rise to startling and unintended consequences.</b><br/><br/> Trajectory. Declination. Impact. Escape Velocity. These are rocketry terms that could also describe aspects of the human experience.<br/><br/> A lumberjack obsessed with space travel loses four different wedding rings, and each of the lost rings symbolizes something different to the person who finds it.<br/><br/> There are the members of a rich family whose dramas overlap with those of the homeless people living right next door, under the bridges of the Rosedale Ravine. The wheelchair-bound teen who declares war on a man parking his luxury car in the handicapped parking spot. The would-be rock star selling insurance, whose terminal diagnosis sets his life on a new and dizzying path. <br/><br/> And many others. Every person is connected to every other -- genetically, coincidentally, necessarily, or randomly. Every action has a consequence, seen or unseen, from the sublime to the catastrophic.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>what I loved most about this book was how it all came together, how all the characters were connected in some way, which, as I see all the time, isn't that unrealistic.-- "Book Time"<br><br>Creates its own small universe of hope, frustration, love, lust, tragedy, and comedy. Each chapter adds to a quirky wholeness, forming a haunting pattern evocative of Sherwood Anderson's <i>Winesburg, Ohio</i>.-- "ForeWord Reviews"<br><br>Expertly weaves these seemingly unrelated characters into one larger story -- a technique reminiscent of Jennifer Egan's <i>A Visit From The Goon Squad</i>. Scarsbrook portrays these characters so vividly that the reader cannot help but empathize with them.-- "Novella Magazine"<br><br>Rockets Versus Gravity was a good read, it took me less than a day to read it because I was so curious to see where it was going to go. I loved getting to read a book set in Toronto and small-towns much like my own-- "Broken Pencil"<br><br>Scarsbrook provides readers with a mosaic--a series of narratives that straddle the line between a full-fledged novel and a collection of interlocking short stories. Embracing ideas of synchronicity and chaos theory, Scarsbrook jumps around in time and place-- "Subterrain"<br><br>Such a fun ride ... Each story weaves from one to another and it is fun putting them all together.-- "Coffee and Books"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Richard Scarsbrook is the author of eight books, including <i>The Indifference League</i>. His short stories and poems have appeared in <i>Descant</i>, <i>The Dalhousie Review</i>, <i>Prairie Fire, Matrix</i>, <i>The Toronto Quarterly</i>, and the <i>NeWest Review</i>. He teaches creative writing courses at George Brown and Humber Colleges, and is a mentor for the Humber School for Writers Correspondence Program. He lives in Toronto.
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