kickdown
Britishnoun
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“Kickdown,” in its moving evocation of a place and a people and a way of life at a pivotal point in our history, finds that same nearly perfect balance.
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This phenomenon is a “kickdown”: the benign industry term for when abnormal pressure, building in a well, suddenly releases — in this case, “like something out of Dante’s Inferno.”
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After the kickdown, and the discovery of benzene bubbling in a creek on the Dunbar property, Susan begins to come out of her paralysis.
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“Kickdown” by Rebecca Clarren, Arcade, 232 pp.,
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These issues are always in the background of Rebecca Clarren’s impressive debut novel “Kickdown,” which looks at the lives of people in and around the small Colorado town of Silt.
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