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008 950621s1996 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPS3569.H39145$bW66 1996
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100 1 $aShearer, Cynthia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95062030
245 14 $aThe wonder book of the air /$cCynthia Shearer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPantheon Books,$c1996.
263 $a9602
300 $a305 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThe Wonder Book of the Air leads us through the lives of three generations in a Southern family.
520 8 $aAt 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.
520 8 $aAs 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.
520 8 $a. 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.
650 0 $aFamilies$zSouthern States$vFiction.
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3569.H39145$iW66 1996