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Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying - Softcover

Salter, James; Gaitskill, Mary; Sedaris, David; Dahl, Roald

 
9781890447519: Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying
Softcover
ISBN 10: 189044751X ISBN 13: 9781890447519
Verlag: Grove Press, Open City Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

During the hundred-year history of human air travel, it has yielded writing that is, by turns, heroic, dreamy, subversive, and utterly dire.

This anthology traces this trajectory from the early letters and memoirs of Wilbur and Orville Wright, and Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, to the diaries of Amelia Earhart. Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s heroism gives way to the darkly magical storytelling of Roald Dahl, and the spare, elegiac prose of master stylist James Salter. More recent stories by Erica Jong, Mary Gaitskill, Thomas Beller, Mike Albo, Maxine Swann, and David Sedaris examine an array of contemporary subjects, from the addictiveness of mile-high sex, to etiquette for cramped seating and accounts of racial profiling post–9/11.

Flight Patterns promises an entertaining refuge for frequent fliers, and a gateway to dreams for nighttime readers. These writings exude the primal fear and cool perspective that can only come from seeing the world—and one’s own life—from a great distance. Flight Patterns renders airplane travel a time capsule of modern life.

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Verlag
Grove Press, Open City Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
189044751X
ISBN 13 
9781890447519
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
560
Herausgeber
Spears Dorothy
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