Falling Backwards

By James Eke

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896860982
• ISBN13: 9781896860985
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

a work of genius

An astonishing and extraodinary tale of life on the stret: it ranks with De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Hesse's Siddhartha in the protagonists unrelenting search for the meaning of life in desperate times.

Wow!

What can you say...it's a great book...a writer to keep tabs on for certain.

I Loved This Book!

I loved this book! It was beautiful and moving and shocking. This is a book everyone should read. It ponders the questions for which we all seek answers.I found the climax bold. Eke's writing has direction and focus - it flows easily. It's easy to sit down and just keep reading.I was blown away by the ending. I was so touched and moved. The writing is honest, not contrived, cutting to the bone - the experiences are real.I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It has guts.

All Deep Things: Why You Should Read This Book

That a debut novel by an emerging young writer - and a Canadian one at that - could pack such a wallop is, to say the very least, encouraging. The story begins with purity and honesty, quickly gaining a hard rhythmic momentum, a pulse the author never loses. The protagonist-narrator leaves home, work, his entire life in pursuit of "more" - enlightenment he is sure exists after experiencing a kind of spiritual epiphany while climbing. The reader follows him through the dark underbelly of the Vancouver streets to the wilds of Banff and beyond in a story that sings with authenticity. Falling Backwards searches out all deep things - love, meaning, truth, faith, even destiny - without hypocrisy or repentance. The characters are concrete and touchable, and the plot quickens in a frenzied return to the beginning of this man's journey, because as he runs away from he is actually hurtling towards the world he hates/craves. When the climax finally comes it is sweet and entirely shocking, an ending no one should give away. James Eke writes in his own unabashed style, in a rhetoric that is both steely and beautiful. The lonely protagonist he has created is the most solid, living-breathing character this reader has encountered in years.