The Floatplane Notebooks - Softcover

Edgerton, Clyde

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140119868 ISBN 13: 9780140119862

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

A Copeland bride planted wisteria by her back porch 20 years before the American Civil War. A century or more later, the family still gathers every May to clean up the graveyard, clip the vine back away from the tombstones and tell stories from the past.

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Review

Warmly humorous, gossipy, and rich a book with the soul of a family reunion. New York Times Book Review"

. . . Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation. . . . Meredith Copeland's first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real. Los Angeles Times"

The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of [an] American classic. Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

Clyde Edgerton is a miner of considerable skills, burrowing into the hillside of humanity to find the ore of characters so pure and so real they might just sit down beside us and tell us a tale. Washington Post Book World"

A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph. . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed. Cincinnati Post"

"Warmly humorous, gossipy, and rich--a book with the soul of a family reunion."--New York Times Book Review

." . . Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation. . . . Meredith Copeland's first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real."--Los Angeles Times

"The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of [an] American classic."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Clyde Edgerton is a miner of considerable skills, burrowing into the hillside of humanity to find the ore of characters so pure and so real they might just sit down beside us and tell us a tale."--Washington Post Book World

"A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph. . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed."--Cincinnati Post

About the Author

Writer, musician, and artist Clyde Edgerton is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is the author of ten novels, a memoir, and a book of advice. Three of his novels-Raney, Walking Across Egypt, and Killer Diller-have been made into films. He has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lyndhurst Prize, and membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers, and he has been named to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristina, and their children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140119868
• ISBN 13: 9780140119862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288