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The new school year at Florence University, nestled in the Pennsylvania countryside, dawns bright with the possibilities that only a fresh start can bring. For three students in particular, it will be a year unlike any other, one that will alter the courses of their lives forever. There is Ian, the film buff trying to figure out his life—and how to catch the eye of the football player he can’t stop fantasizing about; Casey, the local football star whose future off the field is frustratingly uncertain; and Haile, the classical-music prodigy seeking refuge from a past life so that she may start anew as a singer-songwriter. Together the trio will form a fateful friendship, recounted through alternating first-person narratives. Sexy, fast-paced, and layered with intimate insight about life’s most formative years, The Fall is a compelling and contemporary coming-of-age story about what happens when we are forced for the first time to really confront who we are and who we want to become.
Ryan Quinn attended the University of Utah, where he was an NCAA champion and an All-American athlete. After graduation, he worked for five years in New York’s book-publishing industry. A native of Alaska, he now lives in Los Angeles. The Fall is his first novel.
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“Ryan Quinn has deftly managed to blend comedy, drama, and genuine pathos into an utterly compelling story of three friends who change one another’s lives during the course of a single year at college. Improbably, the un-put-downable The Fall is Quinn’s first novel. Clearly, American fiction has a lot to look forward to.” —Steve Kluger, bestselling author of Last Days of Summer and Almost Like Being in Love
“Quinn’s understanding of the human condition makes his first novel, The Fall, an intriguing work. Weaving together the perspectives of three characters —a film buff fantasizing about a football player, a football star bored with his girlfriend and a burned-out classical musical prodigy —it examines their unexpected relationships at college…It’s a realistic look at contemporary friendships and coming of age, and it works because Quinn is not far removed from that world himself.” —Dan Woog, columnist and author of Jocks
“A fast-paced and sexy read, Quinn’s writing seamlessly weaves contemporary friendships and first love with intimate insight of the common struggles young adults face as they come to grips with their own independent identity.” —Jase Peeples, gay.net (powered by OUT)
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