Falling For Icarus: A Journey Among the Cretans [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

MacLean, Rory

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ISBN 10: 1848859562 ISBN 13: 9781848859562

Casa editrice: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011

Riassunto

On a windy spring morning in an ancient Cretan village, Rory MacLean fell to earth. His mother had died a few months earlier and a single obsession had risen from his grief: the notion to build a feather-light flying machine. And so, on the island where Daedalus and Icarus had made man’s maiden flight, MacLean journeyed back to beginnings, back into the Greek myths, and—with the help of his Cretan neighbors and plenty of wine—built a plane and tried to fly.

Falling for Icarus is at once a meditation on love, a celebration of the passion for flight, and a hilarious, vivid portrait of a village. Its generous and exhilarating characters restore MacLean’s faith in life. Through them, he tells a soaring, moving story about how a dream can transform sadness.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rory MacLean is a writer, broadcaster, blogger, and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His eight books, including UK bestsellers Stalin's Nose and Under the Dragon, have challenged and invigorated travel writing and, according to the late John Fowles, are among works that “marvellously explain why literature still lives.” He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has written and presented over 50 BBC radio programs and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie. Born in Canada and resident for many years in Britain, Rory now divides his time between London and Berlin.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1848859562
• ISBN 13: 9781848859562
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 337
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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