Easy Travel to Other Planets

by Mooney, Ted

Stated First Edition

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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1981. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good, with some shelf wear. Some edgewear to the boards (top and bottom). Price clipped on dust jacket, some rubbing of the dust jacket. ; 22 cm.; 278 pages; With this first novel, Ted Mooney establishes himself as a major new voice. The world portrayed in EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS is unmistakably our own, yet Mooney captures it in the process of becoming something entirely new. In a terrain of both apocalypse and possibility, Mooney's characters struggle to hold their lives and relationships together even as an international crisis in Antarctica threatens almost sotto voce, to destroy the world. At the story's center, a young marine biologist named Melissa and her dolphin subject engage in a series of communication experiments that quickly extend beyond the clinical, eventually to embody all that is seductive and paradoxical about intimacy with the unknown. Indeed, the book - here and throughout - is very much concerned with lovers and their trials. Few have written about sex and sexuality as evocatively as Mooney, and as EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS moves effortlessly from the mundane to the astonishing and back again, it savors, in the author's words, that most poignant of pleasures: "the exquisite pangs of one state of being glimpsing another." .

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