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The Wonder Book of the Air leads us through the lives of three generations in a Southern family.
At the center is Harrison Durrance, who learns early that the nature of love is both transaction and transgression. As a young man he comes into his own during World War II, where he falls for the magic of flight and thrives on the danger of battle. He has become a man of undeniable magnetism, brash and vigorously optimistic. But when the war is over and he is back on the ground - in cold-war America - Harrison loses his bearings and catapults out of orbit.
As his notions of the world begin to fail him and the people he claims to love fail to understand him, he sabotages his career, drinks to excess, and drives his family into emotional bedlam. But the story is not Harrison's alone.
- In Cynthia Shearer's arresting vision, the turbulence Harrison creates is woven into a canvas that captures the seismic shifts of history, of change, of forces that we try to name to protect ourselves from their randomness. In the wake of Harrison's terrifying-and-terrified behavior, we watch his children search for hope in the emotional wreckage and find some understanding of solace, compassion, and love.
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Families, Family, Fiction, History, Fiction, generalPlaces
Southern States, United StatesTimes
20th centuryShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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Wonder Book of the Air
1997, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage
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0679758364 9780679758365
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Wonder Book of the Air
Publish date unknown, Pantheon Book Inc
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A Southern family saga featuring one protagonist, but many narrators. The protagonist is Harrison Durrance of Georgia and the narrators include a fellow cadet from West Point, his wife, his sister, his mistress, his children. In the course of portraying this one man from various and sometimes conflicting points of view, a family's history is told.
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