Traveling the same route unknowingly, Gant and Umberto cross paths while "flying without wings" in the middle of a tornado. Becoming partners, the two sojourners continue together down their road learning about each other, but more importantly, about themselves and the relationships with those they love, have loved, or will come to love.
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Customer Rating: Summary: Coast to coast fiasco Comment: Arthur, please leave Florida to the likes of Carl Hiaasen or Elmore Leonard. Your novel failed short in its depiction of our favorite state. The cast of characters wasn't excessively long, but the individual storylines were poorly developed. All the coincidences!: the FBI agent who falls for the car-collector woman who sells her red Jaguar to the parents of the teenage bank robber who "killed" a senator with an asthma attack... The vicious and beautiful killer, her lovely parents, her psychic blind daughter... How forced and convoluted. I prefer simpler novels. This is not it. Customer Rating: Summary: Change of opinion.... Comment: I got the book and finished it in a matter of days. I was very disappointed, however, by this book. I expected something along the lines of Rosenfeld's very good "Diamond Eye." I was wrong. The story lags in so many places, I found myself skipping full paragraphs. Try as I did, I couldn't make myself feel anything at all for Mercury or Umberto. I know I should probably have pitied them, but I could've care less.
The lack of quotations is something that completely threw me. I don't know what Mr. Rosenfeld was trying to accomplish with this tactic. It was distracting and forced me to take my mind out of the story far too many times.
I don't recommend this novel. If you're in a fix for a great road novel, buy "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, which actually does manage to turn a road trip into a spiritual journey without resorting to cockamamie ghost stories.
Customer Rating: Summary: Some of the best character development I've enjoyed Comment: Two men from different pasts come together under the most incredible circumstances. Mr. Rosenfeld has made the main characters credible and absolutely captivating. From the very first paragraph, you will be drawn in. You will never forget Umberto Santana, Mercury Gant, or any of the other players in this story thats part road movie and part Pulp Fiction. Thanks you Mr. Rosenfeld. Customer Rating: Summary: Where I've Never Gone Before Comment: A CURE FOR GRAVITY is a (motorcyle) tour de force. The scenes are countless, brief, heavily loaded with information in short sentences, and all lead to a tightly woven conclusion. Arthur Rosenfeld wastes no words, nor spares us the details to take us to places we might never know could exist--in space and in the mind. Nothing is gratuitous. He isn't afraid to take on issues of morality, to extoll beauty, to introduce flights of fancy, or rub our faces in horror. I was enthralled by the author's talent and hooked on the story from beginning to end. Excellent. Excellent. Customer Rating: Summary: A Modern Novel -Fast Paced and Fun Comment: The Cure for Gravity is a modern novel in the best sense. It moves quickly like modern life with a fast stepping story line filled with adventures, quirky characters- all of whom you'll like- And some way out sub-plots. You'll almost feel like you're riding a bike on the California coast on one page and sailing off Florida on the next. There's just enough tension drawn on the situations our heros are in as well as the anticipated resolving of story lines to keep the pages turning.
