Lean Fall Stand by Jon Mcgregor
The much-awaited new book from Reservoir 13 author, a three-time Booker nominee and Costa Award winner.
When a research expedition to Antarctica goes wrong, it has far-reaching effects on both the men engaged and their families back home. The answers to what happened are held by Robert “Doc” Wright, a veteran of Antarctic fieldwork, but he is no longer able to share them. Robert is forced to learn a completely new way of being in the world as his wife, Anna, negotiates the challenging edges of her new life as a caregiver. Award-winning author Jon McGregor makes a dramatic literary comeback with a book that explores the tenacious human drive to share our stories—even when words fail us—while mesmerizingly and sensitively deconstructing the idea of heroism.
Lean Fall Stand: A Novel
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During an Antarctic expedition, a rare accident occurs in Lean Fall Stand. The reader’s curiosity is piqued by the gradual unravelling of the fact that the initial scene’s tone and intensity are never repeated. The strange, poignant, and frequently humorous portrayal of a stroke patient’s speech and thought patterns—which take on an almost experimental form on the page—sets the novel apart, as does the patient’s wife’s ambivalence as she unexpectedly decides to leave her academic career for a new one as a live-in caregiver. remarkable and uncommon.
a book that details the immediate and long-term impacts of a stroke. It gets off to a good start in the setting of the Antarctic, with fantastic concepts being thrown up by the location, the cold, and the storm. The excessive recounting of stroke symptoms and the road to potential aphasia therapy causes it to lose its narrative focus.
The book’s opening third, which is set in Antarctica, is fantastic. We anticipate learning more about the three individuals because of the writing’s clarity and excitement. Well, one passes away, one practically vanishes, and the other suffers a stroke. The last two-thirds of the novel, which are set in an ambiguous middle-class England and chart the path to a partial recovery of the stroke victim.
