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02632aam a2200301 i 4500 001 787313D0DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 221101t20222022sa c 000 f eng d 020 $a 1415210748 020 $a 9781415210741 035 $a (OCoLC)1349461295 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d OCLCF $d NLZAH $d EEM $d HUL $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.L29 $b N68 2022 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn, $e author. 245 10 $a Notes on falling / $c Bronwyn Law-Viljoen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Umuzi, an imprint of Penguin Random House, $c 2022. 300 $a 288 pages : $b portrait ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Thalia, adrift in a small university town in South Africa in the nineties, heads to New York to study photography and to pick up the faint trail left for her by someone she has never known. The city helps her to find her way as an artist, but it never quite provides the answers she is seeking. Only years later in Johannesburg is she able to make sense of who she is and what her work might mean. Robert is a photographer in New York in the 1970s, desperate to make memorable images in a time of spectacular experimentation in dance, music and theatre. He intuits the importance of what he is photographing, but finds it almost impossible to transcend the troubles of his own life and achieve something great through his work. Paige leaves South Africa in the seventies to pursue her dream of being a ballet dancer. She does not anticipate the ways in which this pursuit will challenge her understanding of the art that she has known and practised all her life, and she is ill prepared for the catastrophic moment that will undo everything she has worked for. Unbeknownst to them, Thalia, Robert and Paige share a story that links them to one another, to the turbulent worlds of New York in the 1970s and South Africa in the 1990s and, finally, to the photographs that hold the secrets of their lives. Notes on Falling is about the hope that art will challenge perceptions and orthodoxy so that the world can be reinvented through new forms. It is also about trying to reconcile the large pictures of history with the small snapshots of our individual lives."--Back cover. 650 0 $a South African fiction (English) 650 7 $a South African fiction (English) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01127180 655 7 $a Novels. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01921742 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030831.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=787313D0DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search