The Law of Gravity

By Dennis Cottrell

The man in the yellow suit didn't have much lips, just kind of straight line where his mouth was supposed to be. The straight line widened a little bitm and he stuck our his hand for me to shake. When... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0941711250
• ISBN13: 9780941711258
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Wyrick & Co
• Length: 329 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

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Cottrell's modern day Huck Finn saga is extremely well written & accessible on every level. Not nearly so simplistic as it seems, the author clearly has a grasp of the literary South. Anyone who enjoys becoming enraptured by the power of a crafty storyteller should hope this is not the last we hear from this master in the making.

Cottrell is a modern Sam Clemens

The cleverly wound tale of the travails of one Patrick Gunn, a young teen growing up the hard way in the contemporary southern U.S. We follow him as he struggles to maintain his moral balance in spite of his family and trailer-trash buddies. There are obvious similarities in the plot to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn but the book will work on the reader on more than one level and stay with you for quite a while. The prose is told in the easy slang of the South. The lazy pastoral setting of most of the early and middle part of the story set up the looming evil that the reader fears building, it's almost a relief when it comes. A highly satisfying novel. Bob Juliano raj@nebula.ispace.co