Waiting for the Sky to Fall: The Age of Verticality in American Narrative

Author/Contributor(s):	MacKay, Ruth
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Date:	09/02/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Waiting for the Sky to Fall considers how vertical events - disorienting, catastrophic, traumatic - are imagined to be ever imminent. It asks why figures of flight, grievous falls, and collapsing towers haunt American narratives to produce an age of verticality determined by a consuming sense of anxiety and awe.