Ascension
Steven Galloway / Apr 17, 2021
Ascension It is the summer of and Salvo Ursari a man of retirement age is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York s World Trade Center almost fourteen hundred feet above the ci
It is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York s World Trade Center, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise This wire walk will end his career In this daring moment, Steven Galloway oIt is the summer of 1976 and Salvo Ursari, a man of retirement age, is walking on a taut wire strung between the Twin Towers of New York s World Trade Center, almost fourteen hundred feet above the city Far below him in the gaping crowd stands his wife, Anna, to whom he has made a solemn promise This wire walk will end his career In this daring moment, Steven Galloway opens his riveting novel about Salvo Ursari, whose life begins in 1919 amid a Transylvanian boyhood inhabited by gypsy folklore and inspired by the bravery of his persecuted people Salvo s story moves irresistibly from a tragic fire that envelops his family, to street life in Budapest, where he learns the skills of a wire walker, to the carnivals of Europe and the competitive world of the American circus Most fulfilled when living with paradox, Salvo feels safest while performing startling feats of balance on a wire high above the dangerous world and most endangered if performing above a net With compassion, warmth, and blazing originality, Ascension combines jaw dropping storytelling, and fantastical symbolism with mesmerizing detail of Romany and circus culture, and an unforgettable walk with the amazing Salvo Ursari.
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Steven Galloway
Galloway was born in Vancouver, and raised in Kamloops, British Columbia He attended the University College of the Cariboo and the University of British Columbia His debut novel, Finnie Walsh, was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award His second novel, Ascension, was nominated for the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and has been translated into numerous languages His third novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, was published in spring of 2008 It was heralded as the work of an expert by the Guardian, and has become an international bestseller with rights sold in 20 countries Galloway has taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia and taught and mentored creative writing in The Writer s Studio, at the writing and publishing program at Simon Fraser University.