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Revised first two chapters of 
TALL BUILDINGS
Small-town girl comes to big city and rises to challenge of itsdizzying heights.
Synopsis
It’s 1962 and recent college graduate Junemarie Hinkle leaves thefarm to start a career with a publishing house in Manhattan.Fighting acrophobia, she copes with living a vertical life in thecity’s skyscrapers. Throughout the summer, she falls in and out of love with handsome coworker Ken while another, Andy, has eyesfor her, she tries her hand at a first novel, and she becomes thevictim of a stalker. All around her tragedies occur—a deadlytornado strike, zeppelin explosion, towering inferno,defenestration, helicopter decapitation, window washer murder,elevator fatality, spontaneous human combustion on Wall St.,construction worker deadly falls, talk of an alien invasion—butJunemarie’s sights are focused only on Ken. She learns about freelove, beatniks, psychoanalysis, and the dark secrets of a hard- boiled veteran editor, of a peculiar assistant, and of love-objectKen. Through it all she harbors family secrets: her Eskimo bloodline and hereditary insanity. Although she manages to survive being forced onto a building ledge during a blackout, her psychecan’t overcome the dizzying heights of modern Manhattan.
 
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A small-town girl comes to the big city and risesto the challenge of its dizzying heights.
he tall buildings of Manhattan are symbols of success, the physical manifestations of one’s rise to the top. Never-endingstairs. Express elevator. Penthouse view of a dynamic city. Tall buildings from a distance are an attractive illusion, yet close up theyshatter all illusions. At least, that’s what Junemarie Hinkle learned thatsummer of 1962 in the Summers & Maybright tall building.
T
Tall Buildings
takes you back to the last century, that quaint time of  polio, carbon paper, and the constitutional right to an attorney. This wasthe time Junemarie Hinkle learned about life and love in the shadow of the tall buildings of Manhattan.
 
“Man is the only animal clever enough to build the Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump off it!”
Rock Hudson as
 Robert L. Talbot 
in
Come September 
, 1961
of 00

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