Midair: Stories

by Frank Conroy

Book Overview

The title story in this collection narrates the lifelong effects on a son of the trauma experienced when his psychotic father threatens to drop him from a fifth-floor window. A common thread running... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140089845
• ISBN13: 9780140089844
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Conroy Soars

"Midair" is a masterful collection of stories by the long-time director of the prestigeous Iowa Writers' Workshop (teaching home also of the wonderful Pulitzer-winner Marilynne Robinson). Anyone who appreciates the short-story form will not be disappointed in this collection. Conroy was at the top of his craft when he rendered these stories, but he always remained honest and direct, humble to the point of being self-effacing. Like his riveting childhood memoir, "Stop-time", "Midair" will always remain a favorite. As the great jazz bassist Charlie Mingus once remarked, about Conroy's piano playing, "...you swing!" "Midair" swings!