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Time It Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazarus Dean (2007, Hardcover)

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Margaret Lazarus Dean. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles.3. Visual Imagery. Problem Solving.12. Emulating the engineers and astronauts her characters orbit, her work is equal parts cool precision, and wondrous dream.

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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-100743297229

ISBN-139780743297226

eBay Product ID (ePID)56952484

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Book TitleTime It Takes to Fall

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2007

TopicSagas, General

GenreFiction

AuthorMargaret Lazarus Dean

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight17 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Reviews1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology.2. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles.3. Perception.4. Attention.5. Short-Term and Working Memory.6. Long-Term Memory: Basic Principles.7. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors.8. Knowledge.9. Visual Imagery. 10. Language.11. Problem Solving.12. Reasoning and Decision Making., "Affecting, original debut about a girl's coming-of-age, set against the backdrop of the NASA space-shuttle program...an accomplished first novel about the American family."-- "Kirkus" (starred review), "Taking as her backdrop the Challenger shuttle disaster, Dean subtly probes the hidden, design flaws at the heart of the American family. Emulating the engineers and astronauts her characters orbit, her work is equal parts cool precision, and wondrous dream. If a novel can be likened to a spacecraft -- both are an intricate assembly of hundreds of thousands of parts -- Dean's is flawlessly constructed, ready to launch the reader on a soaring emotional trajectory."-- Peter Ho Davies, author ofEqual LoveandThe Ugliest House in the World, "Margaret Dean's beautifully adroit first novel is about a fine intelligence painfully located in a girl who can barely stand to be smart, and of a whole generation lifted up, and then brought down, by the "Challenger" disaster. "The Time It Takes to Fall" is a story of liftoffs and crash landings, of growing up and growing down. It is at once a meditation on American life -- on what we know and what we can't or don't know -- and a suspenseful page-turner."-- Charles Baxter, author of "Saul and Patsy" and "The Feast of Love", "Affecting, original debut about a girl's coming-of-age, set against the backdrop of the NASA space-shuttle program...an accomplished first novel about the American family."--Kirkus(starred review), "Margaret Dean's beautifully adroit first novel is about a fine intelligence painfully located in a girl who can barely stand to be smart, and of a whole generation lifted up, and then brought down, by the Challenger disaster.The Time It Takes to Fallis a story of lift-offs and crash landings, of growing up and growing down. It is at once a meditation on American life -- on what we know and what we can't or don't know -- and a suspenseful page-turner."-- Charles Baxter, author ofSaul and PatsyandThe Feast of Love, "Taking as her backdrop the "Challenger" shuttle disaster, Dean subtly probes the hidden design flaws at the heart of the American family. Emulating the engineers and astronauts her characters orbit, her work is equal parts cool precision and wondrous dream. If a novel can be likened to a spacecraft -- both are an intricate assembly of hundreds of thousands of parts -- Dean's is flawlessly constructed, ready to launch the reader on a soaring emotional trajectory."-- Peter Ho Davies, author of "Equal Love" and "The Ugliest House in the World"

SynopsisIn January 1986, the "Challenger" disaster shocked the world. The ensuing investigation threatens to tear Dolores Haye's family and community apart. She must find a way to reconstruct what went wrong both in her family and at NASA, without losing sight of her dreams., In January 1986, the Challenger disaster shocked the world. The ensuing investigation threatens to tear Dolores Haye's family and community apart. She must find a way to reconstruct what went wrong both in her family and at NASA, without losing sight of her dreams., It is the early 1980s, and America is in love with space. Growing up inthe shadow of Cape Canaveral, young Dolores Gray has it particularlybad: she dreams of becoming an astronaut.But at home, things are falling apart. As her father's job as a NASAtechnician is threatened, discord begins to grow between her parents. Atschool, there are still other problems: Dolores finds herself caughtbetween her desire for popularity and her secret friendship with thesmartest and most unpopular boy in her class, whose father is NASA'sDirector of Launch Safety.Looking for escape, Dolores loses herself in her scrapbook, where shefiles away newspaper articles about the astronauts and the shuttles,weather reports on launch scrubs, and stories about her idol, JudithResnik.Then, on the morning of January 28, 1986, seventy-three seconds afterliftoff, the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing all sevenastronauts on board - including Judith Resnik. It is a moment thatshakes America to its core, and nowhere is it more deeply felt than incentral Florida. Dolores becomes determined to reconstruct what wentwrong, both in her parent's marriage and at NASA, in the hope that shecan save her father's job and keep her family together.The Time It Takes To Fall is a coming-of-age novel that deftly weavesthe story of one family's drama into the larger picture of a touchstoneevent in American history. It is at once an intimate look at a younggirl's loss of innocence and a portrait of America's loss of innocence -the end of an era that romanticized manned space flight, and would neverbe the same again.

LC Classification NumberPS3604.E1535T56 2007