Gravity Let Me Go
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4.2 • 16 Ratings
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- $28.99
Publisher Description
Trent Dalton, Australia's #1 bestselling author, returns with the astonishing Gravity Let Me Go - a story you won't ever forget.
How will you ever know how the story ends, if you let the story go?
Noah Cork has just published the scoop of a lifetime: a white-hot true-crime book about the cold-blooded killer who slipped an unfolding murder mystery into his mailbox. But if this is his moment of triumph, then why is the tin roof being ripped from the walls of his reality? Why are skeletons standing upright in his closet? Why do people want to run him over in the street? And why does his wife keep writing a cryptic message across the bathroom mirror? As a severe storm heads towards Brisbane, Noah is hurtling headfirst into a swirling storm of secrets. He must now cling for dear life to the only story that ever really mattered. He must hold on to the truth. He must hold on to the story. He must hold on to love.
Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is Trent Dalton's deeply personal exploration of marriage and ambition, truth-telling and truth-omitting, self-deception and self-preservation. It's a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn't, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us.
It's the story of a murder.
It's the story of a marriage.
It's the story of a lifetime.
'Gravity Let Me Go draws readers deep into a raw and chaotic world that is both unsettling and compelling ... His signature mix of grit, heart and unexpected turns keeps the narrative gripping, with twists readers won't see coming. Ultimately, fans of Dalton's previous novels will find Gravity Let Me Go impossible to put down.' Books+Publishing
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What happens when a story takes over your life? That’s the core of Aussie bestseller Trent Dalton’s latest novel, which follows a true-crime journalist who finds his work and life entwined in increasingly unexpected ways. Dalton brings the heat to every page he writes, then brings those pages to life by narrating his own work here. Even the title of Gravity Let Me Go gives advance warning of the constant spinning pace you can expect from this gripping, Brisbane-set tale. Vivid, propulsive and chock-full of emotional impact.
Customer Reviews
The Marquez of Brisvegas
Author
Australian journalist turned best-selling novelist, non-fiction writer, and adapter of his own work for stage and screen. This is his highly anticipated fourth novel.
In brief
The setting is an apparently idyllic fictional suburb on the north side of Mr D’s beloved hometown of Brisbane, Australia, the protagonist a 40-something WM crime journalist whose career is languishing after a falling out with his sources in the constabulary. He is married with two daughters, one teenager and one precocious pre-teen aspiring journalist. Things are a tad rocky for our hero on the marital front, in no small part because of how consumed he has been recently by writing a true crime book about the gruesome death of a young mother from his not-quite-as-idyllic-after-all suburb. The book is a bestseller, but his relentless pursuit of the killer, despite repeated advice from police to leave well alone, puts him and his family in grave danger. Unresolved issues from his childhood and the extreme weather during storm season in Brisbane also feature. Neither the murderer’s identity, nor the fact that he/she/they/it is a serial killer, should come as any surprise to fans of whodunnits, but the whodunnit element is not the point. (I don’t think it was, at least.)
Writing
Mr D writes up a storm, both literally and figuratively, and turns in a bravura performance as narrator of the audio version. As in all of his fiction, he injects a heathy dose of magic realism, which worked particularly well with the storms, but felt a little OTT to me at other times. Readers of sensitive disposition might take issue with some of the language. While I thought it representative of Brisbane suburban, I did find it at odds, on occasion, with the literary aspirations of the writing otherwise.
I am suspicious of/irritated by/nonplussed about/all of the above regarding novels where writers bemoan their lives as writers. A major redeeming feature here is the writer protagonist lives in Brisbane, rather than Brooklyn. With that in mind, I still think Lola In The Mirror is Mr Dalton’s best.
A professional fiction voice acor needed
I don’t know whether Trent was just wanting to get more money for his efforts but it would be prudent to give this type of story over to a professional. There are lots of reading errors and the tone does not match the words. Read the novel, skip the audiobook.
Never fails to deliver
A brilliant masterpiece with so many deeper messages within
Read it if you can effing brilliant