Plunge! Sally Stiles 9781939917003 Books
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Plunge! is an exceptional, deeply-moving memoir--a classic love story, exquisitely told.
Sally was a New York career woman when David showed up in her life. Their first dinner date was July 13, 1977, the night of the New York Blackout. Six weeks later he told her he had accepted a job in Nigeria. After a romantic weekend at the Pierre Hotel, David left the city. "The noise of the engines was muffled through the window, and as the plane taxied to the runway, the sound faded away, like a love song drawing to a melancholy close."
As David struggled to clear a jungle to build a paper mill in West Africa, Sally worked at her fast-paced job, occasionally flew private planes, and led the tenants of her Park Avenue apartment building into battle against her notorious landlord. Over the next nine months, they corresponded--openly, often with humor--and had three brief reunions in Nigeria, London and New York.
"Perhaps the distance that separated us, the lack of instant interaction, helped us both to communicate more thoughtfully, more honestly and even more passionately than we might have otherwise."
"So well written and so compelling." - Louise Crowley, Program Director, Vermont College of Fine Arts, MFA in Writing
"A deeply moving and deeply-felt story which will resonate with others as it resonated with me" -- Michael Boxall, author, The Great Firewall
Plunge! Sally Stiles 9781939917003 Books
At its heart, Sally Stiles' memoir is a story of courage. Coming of age in the 1960s, the author dove head first into her work with various magazines and an advertising agency. She drove a snow mobile through the Alaskan mountains and learned to fly a small plane. But in the end, she needed a deeper, more difficult kind of courage. She had to give up the adventure and promise of a glamorous career in New York and dare to fall in love. After the death of her long time lover, PK, that wasn't easy. But it happened. She fell in love with David Stiles. After he accepted a job in Nigeria, her courage was tested over and over again. Could she trust his love when it took weeks to hear from him? Could she give up everything she'd worked so hard to achieve and move to Africa with him? What did she really want out of life? And what if she was wrong? Plunge! is a beautiful, courageous memoir, honest and poetic. I enjoyed it from start to finish.Product details
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Plunge! Sally Stiles 9781939917003 Books Reviews
A gifted writer with the ability to tell her story in exceptional style by today's standards,
reassuring me that there are authors out there who still know how to use our beautiful English language without cliches and foul language. Her poetry bears rereading before each chapter. Her love story is one that is boldly shared and took me back into a joyful remembrance of my own long love affair with my soulmate of many years. I will reread this treasure. I have already bought copies for gifting special friends and relatives.
Plunge! is a loving portrait of a time and a passion. The time was just the other side of the great divide of the twentieth century, the gulf between typewriter and telex and celluloid photography and the onslaught of digitization. People wrote letters, which could take weeks to reach their mark. Placing a telephone call--when was the last time you did that?--was a hit-or-miss business, fueled by pocketfuls of change. Not an auspicious time for a long-distance relationship, we might think today. And miss the point completely. Distance adds its own spice to a love affair, and always has done.
Sally Stiles arrived in New York in the mid-1960s with potential as a writer and a taste for interesting men. The first she parlayed into a series of jobs in the magazine world, rising steadily through the ranks and writing about the outdoors and what people did in it. She traveled extensively, by motorbike and snowmobile and on “small feeder airlines hurtling through clear, starry nights to small-town airports in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Idaho …” She had fun, and when she threw an open-cockpit biplane around the sky fun blossomed into full-blown ecstasy.
Of the men, Plunge! focuses on three, and there’s not a fixer-upper among them. First was her father, “intelligent, forthright, a hero” and a hard act to follow, “though, like all men, he possessed some inconsistencies.” Away at war for the first three years of Sally’s life, he’s no sooner back than he’s off again, having fallen in love with another woman and becoming “the first of my loves to vanish into the ether like an azure balloon.”
The second is the mysterious PK, a charming Egyptian-Armenian with flecks of grey in his mustache, kind and lighthearted and twenty years her senior. His appearance in the book is fleeting, but he seems to overshadow it nevertheless. Perhaps it’s because he is there at the start, dying. The relationship lasted ten years and Sally says little about what they did together, setting the imagination free to follow them through the grand hotels of Europe, exotic ethnicity making PK as indistinct but unforgettable as Mr Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant.
The third of the trio was David Stiles, her beloved and loving husband, and when David too vanished into the ether she felt driven to write Plunge!. That affair and later marriage is the heart of this profoundly heartfelt book. It began as a classic New York love story with lunch at a French restaurant off Third Avenue, moved on by way of oysters and photo-shoots toward what looked like a pre-determined end. But fate intervened and sent David to Lagos to build a newsprint mill. The relationship relied on unreliable communications. Yet a series of flying visits added fuel to the fire. When Sally eventually went to Nigeria she saw the man she had fallen in love with at work, and fell even deeper.
Plunge!, punctuated by her poetry, is an account of their lives together, eloquent, vivid and moving. She wrote it to help her bear the unbearable. Only Sally knows how far she succeeded in that process. But there is no question that out of it she has produced a fine book.
I love this book. I have to start with a disclaimer My "little sister" wrote it.
I had more than a passing acquaintance with most of the major characters; I can attest to the integrity of her depiction of all of them. As the saying goes "you can't make this stuff up!". She didn't have to and she didn't stray from the truth.
Sally was born with a passion for adventure and achievement. In her career, she was a whirlwind a super-achiever, in a time when the things she aspired to do were difficult, if not impossible for a young woman. . It was astonishing to all of us that, while at the pinnacle of her success, she also found a wonderful man with whom she shared a deep and lasting love, , tossed aside the trappings of success, and, indeed the luxuries of "civilization as we know it", to join her love in a new adventure in Nigeria.
This is not a book to be skimmed or read quickly. There is not a dull passage in it. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always full of love!
There is much to be gained from a slow and contemplative reading of this book. It's not just about what happened; it's also about how she learned to understand herself and her feeling, and how she was finally able to take the plunge into the unknown.
I loved this book and I look forward impatiently to reading the next one!
Waste of money
A truly great read!!!! Very well written and just a great story! A wonderful story about a colorful life and love!
A Love Story is always a good read. This one is exciting due to I know the author. It was a great read I could not put down after page 50. Thanks Sally for a truly riveting nonfiction read.
I truly enjoyed reading " Plunge! " The story has given me so much to think about, especially the section that focuses on Nigeria. Sally Stiles is a wonderful writer.
At its heart, Sally Stiles' memoir is a story of courage. Coming of age in the 1960s, the author dove head first into her work with various magazines and an advertising agency. She drove a snow mobile through the Alaskan mountains and learned to fly a small plane. But in the end, she needed a deeper, more difficult kind of courage. She had to give up the adventure and promise of a glamorous career in New York and dare to fall in love. After the death of her long time lover, PK, that wasn't easy. But it happened. She fell in love with David Stiles. After he accepted a job in Nigeria, her courage was tested over and over again. Could she trust his love when it took weeks to hear from him? Could she give up everything she'd worked so hard to achieve and move to Africa with him? What did she really want out of life? And what if she was wrong? Plunge! is a beautiful, courageous memoir, honest and poetic. I enjoyed it from start to finish.
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