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“So beautifully is this novel rendered, scene by scene, character by character, sentence by sentence, that the end of the journey is muchlessimportantthanthejourneyitself.Everythinginthisbook sparkles and rings true. As the best books do, it seemed to end too quickly.…Dingley Falls is one of the best books I have read in a long time.” —Chicago Tribune “Superb! What an exuberant novel for these troubled times! If not the Great American Novel, which Norman Mailer keeps prom- ising, Dingley Falls is surely the Great American Comedy. The two may just be synonymous.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Alovable,sprawling,old-fashionedkindofnovel,fullofenergy and gems of characterization.” —Washington Post Book World “A real accomplishment…Michael Malone has the true narra- tive gift, the true eye for character in action, and a fluent prose, wrought carefully and well.…His Dingley world, with all its tangles, really exists for the reader and stays with him.” —Robert Penn Warren “Malonehaswovenacomplextapestrythatleavesthereader,at story’s end, as stunned and emotionally spent as the reader of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.” —West Coast Review of Books “For craft and knowingness and the provision of a faultlessly wonderfulread,therehasn’tbeenabooklikeitinmany,manyyears. It’s a gorgeous accomplishment.” —Gordon Lish “InDingleyFalls,Malonehasproducedaremarkableworkoffic- tion.…He combines humor, compassion, and literate writing with a storytelling ability that is rare in contemporary fiction.” —Houston Chronicle “A pleasure to read as few modern novels are. Malone offers a worldthathearkensbacktotheliteratureofanearliertime,peopled by characters whose lives we share, and who remain with us long after the book has been closed.…Dingley Falls is a tonic.” —Marilyn French “Malone’s novel is a wondrous achievement. It is full of the things that books should brim with: humor and suspense and wit, among them. Malone is an awesome craftsman. The book is beauti- fully textured, superbly structured. Best of all, his writing…sings. The characterization is remarkable….Malone’s novel is as lusty, whimsical, tragic—even as bizarre—as life itself.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Awildoriginal—funnyandpassionateandwise—andMichael Maloneisoneofthoserarewriterswhocanslowlyuncovertheheart ofanentiretown.MaloneisawonderfulstorytellerandDingleyFalls is a marvelous journey into absurdity, humor, and compassion.” —Alice Hoffman “A satisfying tale of tangled lives and colliding desires in small- town America…an engrossing novel.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “One of those special books you wait for…a rare jewel.” —Birmingham Sunday Books “It’s a dazzling book and I read it, spellbound, in one long gulp. FormeitputsMalonewayupthereinthechoicestcompanyofcon- temporary American writers.” —Irwin Shaw dingley falls by Michael Malone FICTION Painting the Roses Red The Delectable Mountains Dingley Falls Uncivil Seasons Handling Sin Time’s Witness Foolscap First Lady Red Clay, Blue Cadillac The Last Noel NONFICTION Psychetypes Heroes of Eros Dingley Falls A novel by Michael Malone For a singer “Dodie” John Darwin Penland 1950–1979 Song’s a good prayer. So is laughter. Copyright©1980,2002byMichaelMalone Coverandinternaldesign©2002bySourcebooks,Inc. Coverphoto©GettyImagesandDigitalVision FirstpublishedinNewYorkin1980byHarcourtBraceJovanovich,Inc. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformor by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrievalsystems—exceptinthecaseofbriefquotationsembodiedincriti- cal articles or reviews—without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks,Inc. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and inci- dentsportrayedinitaretheworkoftheauthor’simagination.Anyresem- blance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. PublishedbySourcebooks,Inc. P.O.Box4410,Naperville,Illinois 60567-4410 (630)961-3900 FAX:(630)961-2168 www.sourcebooks.com LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Malone,Michael. DingleyFalls:anovel/byMichaelMalone. p.cm. ISBN1-4022-0007-2(pbk.) 1. Cityandtownlife—Fiction.2. Anonymousletters—Fiction.3. Connecticut—Fiction.4. Hatemail—Fiction. I.Title. PS3563.A43244D562002 813’.54—dc21 2002006928 PrintedandboundintheUnitedStatesofAmerica LB 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 acknowledgments I’ve never understood why those who write fictions should not acknowledge debts as publicly as those who write facts. I’d like to thank Mrs. Arthur E. Case for her generous friendship, and Dr. BarbaraOttoandDr.J.J.Quilligan,Jr.,forconsentingwithsuchkind cheer to diagnose the peculiar symptoms afflicting Dingleyans. DuringthefouryearsithastakentofinishDingleyFalls,numbersof readers, both in and out of what is for some odd reason called “the industry,” have given me good criticism, wise advice, and warm sup- port. My heartfelt appreciation to them all.
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