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A fictional portrayal of Eddie Rickenbacker, the pioneer, inventor, and hero who made headlines in the first half of this century, tells of his life in a multitude of voices, ranging from Alfred Sloan of General Motors to God. 30,000 first printing.
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Why I wrote Fast Eddie
I first came across Eddie Rickenbacker when I was asked to write a magzine piece on him. In doing research I ran across his autobiography. The thing might have been ghosted by Horatio Alger, it was that simon pure and full of elevating lessons. But beneath the sanitized profile Rickenbacker chose to present to the world, I sensed there was an unexpergated Eddie who chased women, never drank anything under 80 proof, and beat the hell out of anybody who got in his way. He was the soul of insincerity -- Sergeant Bilko writ large, and that was funny. So I decided to write a novel about his life, a story that presented the Mythic Eddie and in the process got at why he once had been one of the three or four most admired men in America...a Hawaiian shirt of a man, pulled up so high by his own bootstraps that he confused axoxia with transcendental zoot. Even without my rhetorical flourishes, he lived a hell of a life. So far the critics seem to agree.
"An engagingly offbeat debut novel by an iconiclastic military historin." Publishers Weekly
"A delightful, pie-in-the-sky fictional oral biography...soaring tragicomic celebration of guts and glory which sums up the best and the worst of the American Century."--Kirkus Review
"...uproarious fictional biography...a peer of Thomas Berger's Little Big Man." Booklist
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A fictional portrayal of Eddie Rickenbacker, the pioneer, inventor, and hero who made headlines in the first half of the twentieth century, tells of his life in a multitude of voices, ranging from Alfred Sloan of General Motors to God.
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Fast Eddie
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1999
ISBN 10: 0688166903
ISBN 13: 9780688166908
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Fifty years ago Eddie Rickenbacker was a household name. This wild, funny, highly original novel brings him back to life, simultaneously elevating him to the realm of myth and portraying him with all his flaws. A pioneer in the world of automobiles and autoracing, America's World War I flying ace, a major influence on both the aircraft industry and aircraft design, founder of a major airline, he made front-page news across the country during World War I by surviving in a life raft in the Pacific for twenty-one days.The novel is told in a multitude of voices ranging from Alfred Sloan of General Motors to novelist John Dos Passos and General Billy Mitchell to Rickenbacker's wife and mother -- and, of course, the voice of Eddie himself. But most startling of all is the voice of God, a detached observer who comments frequently and ironically on Rickenbacker's life and machinations. Seller Inventory # 00073997215
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Fast Eddie: A Novel in Many Voices
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Fast Eddie : A Novel in Many Voices
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Fast Eddie
Published by
HarperCollins Publishers Inc, 1999
ISBN 10: 0688166903
ISBN 13: 9780688166908
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Fifty years ago Eddie Rickenbacker was a household name. This wild, funny, highly original novel brings him back to life, simultaneously elevating him to the realm of myth and portraying him with all his flaws. A pioneer in the world of automobiles and autoracing, America's World War I flying ace, a major influence on both the aircraft industry and aircraft design, founder of a major airline, he made front-page news across the country during World War I by surviving in a life raft in the Pacific for twenty-one days.The novel is told in a multitude of voices ranging from Alfred Sloan of General Motors to novelist John Dos Passos and General Billy Mitchell to Rickenbacker's wife and mother -- and, of course, the voice of Eddie himself. But most startling of all is the voice of God, a detached observer who comments frequently and ironically on Rickenbacker's life and machinations. Seller Inventory # CIN0688166903VG
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Fast Eddie: A Novel in Many Voices
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FAST EDDIE A Novel in Many Voices
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