Falling Up: The Days and Nights of Carlisle Floyd, the Authorized Biography

by Thomas Holliday

Actors know about "falling up": a split-second ignition from the wings, propelling entrance as a new character, an unwilled ascent to a different mode of being, an in-body experience that overlays preparation, opportunity, choice, or chance. Falling Up, the first and only full-length Floyd study, is a metaphor for humanity's uncanny ability to rise from seeming disaster into rebirth. Floyd's consistent succession of soars, stumbles, slides,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610033
• ISBN13: 9780815610038
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.7" x 11.6"