Flight of Passage [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Buck, Rinker; Rinker, Buck

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ISBN 10: 0786861002 ISBN 13: 9780786861002

Casa editrice: Hyperion Books, 1997

Riassunto

In the Summer of 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck - two teenaged schoolboys from New Jersey - bought a dilapidated Piper Cub airplane for $300, rebuilt it, and piloted it on a record breaking flight across America - navigating all the way to California without a radio, because they couldn't afford one. Their trip retraced a mythical route flown by their father, Tom Buck, a brash, colorful ex-barnstormer who had lost a leg in a tragic air crash before his sons were born - but who so loved the adventure of flight that he taught his boys to fly before they could drive.
The journey west, and the preparations for it, become a figurative and literal process of discovery; as the young men battle thunderstorms and wracking turbulence and encounter Arkansas rednecks, Texas cowboys, and the languid, romantic culture of smalltown cafes, cheap motels, and dusty landing strips of pre-Vietnam America. The brothers have a lot to resolve among themselves, too - as Kern, the meticulous, dedicated visionary; and Rinker, the rebellious second son, must finally come to understand and depend on each other in the complex way that only brothers can.
Most of all, Flight of Passage is a timeless story of fathers and sons. These two young men must separate from their difficult, quirky father - literally by putting a country's distance between them - but they do it on their father's terms: in an airplane. As he looks back from the perspective of now being a father himself, Rinker Buck's tale of two young men in search of themselves and their country becomes a book about the eternal enigma of family - of the distance and closeness of generations, of peace lost so that understanding can be gained - and it is explored with a storytelling power that is both brave and rare.

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Book by Buck Rinker

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Hyperion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0786861002
• ISBN 13: 9780786861002
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 351
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile