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Luminous Airplanes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250013828)
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xA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Luminous Airplanes.
In September 2000, a young computer programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, and clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he's there, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and begins an ill-advised romance in which past and present are dangerously confused.
Author: Paul La Farge
ISBN-10: 1250013828
ISBN-13: 9781250013828
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Language: English
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/04/2012 pg. 24
By Paul La Farge
xPaul La Farge (1970 - 2023) was the author of the novels The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, Luminous Airplanes, The Night Ocean, and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. His novels and stories "defied easy categorization", according to the New York Times. His fiction and nonfiction appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Believer, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He lived in upstate New York.
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