The Short Fall

Raymond Chandler once wrote in a letter, It doesn’t matter a damn what a novel is about. The only fiction of any moment in any age is that which does magic with words.‘ Marek Waldorf does magic with words in The Short Fall, a multilevel debut novel about a paralyzed speechwriter’s relationship to his client, a charismatic presidential candidate named Vince Talbot and about his own relationship to the written word. The novel, filled with lively effusions of wit and unexpected humour, is an achronological story of recovery, one that emerges slowly.