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Michael Storr's joy comes from physical danger as a parachutist, a surfer, a hang glider, a free faller, a reckless skier. Oppressed by his life in New York City, he feels choked by his career as an executive in a high powered office as an executive in a high powered office, choked by the airless world of air conditioned towers. His own sanity depends on his finding a purer, simpler, more vigorous existence, and he sets out to search for one, even though he loses his wife in the process. He finds the physical excitement he craves but along with it developments he has not contempated. For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports.
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The Top of the Hill, Irwin Shaw
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- Année de publication
- 1979
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- Titre
- The Top of the Hill
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Irwin Shaw
- Éditeur
- Delacorte Press
- Publié
- 1979
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 346
- ISBN10
- 044008976X
- ISBN13
- 9780440089766
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, 20e siècle, Littérature américaine
- Description
- Michael Storr's joy comes from physical danger as a parachutist, a surfer, a hang glider, a free faller, a reckless skier. Oppressed by his life in New York City, he feels choked by his career as an executive in a high powered office as an executive in a high powered office, choked by the airless world of air conditioned towers. His own sanity depends on his finding a purer, simpler, more vigorous existence, and he sets out to search for one, even though he loses his wife in the process. He finds the physical excitement he craves but along with it developments he has not contempated. For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports.