Called Out

by A.G. Mojtabai

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038547430X
• ISBN13: 9780385474306
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

SPARE AND SOBER, YET A RICH TALE

Returning to her themes of separatist movements and cultural divisions, A. G. Mojtabai begins her sixth novel with the crash of a passenger jet. The gigantic plane plummets to earth by the small town of Bounds, Texas, a place where the inhabitants had never anticipated such a climatic disaster. One of the first to observe the crash is a Roman Catholic priest, Father Mark, who sees the plane falling as he drives home. He had been thinking of various parish problems and reconsidering his vocation. Now, he is called to minister to the accident victims. Other witnesses include the town's grumpy postmistress in whose field lies the twisted debris, and a newspaper reporter from Fort Worth who was headed for a yard sale but ran into the country's top story. "Called Out" is aptly named for it is a story of how individuals are summoned forth from lives of isolation to interact with their fellow men. There are no pat answers here. What does such a disaster mean? The author leaves us to wonder. This is a spare, sober tale yet a rich one causing readers to ponder their places among their fellow human beings. - Gail Cooke

An haunting and eery experience

I have read this novel many years ago, and still the story continues to haunt me. It comes in vivid images : A quiet little town in Texas. A plane crash. Survivors pouring out of the wreck, disoriented, shocked, changed for the rest of their lives. This town, it will never be the same again. The people, they will come together. Milan Kundera once said that the success of a so-called 'Best-Sellers' is that it urges you to find a key, a solution. It is exciting, but once you've found it, the magic is over. You can throw away the book, the mystery is unveiled, the excitement is gone. Read this book, be different. It belongs to another category.