This is a hardback book.
From the dust jacket: "Michael Storrs'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, 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 contemplated. For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports."
From the dust jacket: "Michael Storrs'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, 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 contemplated. For some of the personal relationships in which he becomes entangled prove as threatening as the most dangerous of his sports."
Like All Shaw's books--GREAT.
I love everything I have ever read by Irwin Shaw. I found it very hard to put this book down as it is so easy to read. Shaw is a master story-teller, much better than most writers of today. If you don't enjoy this book, I just don't know what to tell you.
One of the 20th century's best novelists and short story writers is at the top of his form in this one.
