The Floatplane Notebooks [signed]
Language: English
Published by Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 1991
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Orielis' Books, CHAPEL HILL, NC, U.S.A.Orielis' Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Gray cloth with white lettering, 265 pp. Spine cocked, corners lightly bumped, slight edge wear. Jacket in new Brodart with just a little edge wear, mostly at bottom corner of rear flap. A nice copy, signed by the author on title page. "The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. A Copeland bride planted wisteria by her back porch 20 years before the Civil War. Now her vine has just about taken over the woods around the family graveyard. Think what that wisteria vine has seen, and what it could tell if it could talk! "When the family gathers every May to clean up the graveyard and clip the vine back away from the tombstones, the old people talk to keep the path to the past open. They tell all the best stories again and they make sure the new brides understand how everybody (dead and alive) is kin and who is named for whom. "Meredith's father, Albert Copeland, keeps a sort of written family record. He keeps it in some notebooks he bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, a project Albert first undertook back in 1956. "; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author.…
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- Title
- The Floatplane Notebooks [signed]
- Author
- Edgerton, Clyde
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0945575009
- ISBN 13
- 9780945575009
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Bacon, Paul (cover)
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. Meredith Copeland's father, Albert, keeps a sort of written family record in some notebooks he bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, a project Albert first undertook in 1956, when his children were just kids. Now that the kids are grown -- Thatcher has a son of his own, Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam, and Noralee is off dating hippies -- the notebooks are thick with the floatplane's failures to lift off and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, Thatcher and Bliss's wedding, records of Noralee's height and weight, a diagram of the graveyard, a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith's many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then down to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same.
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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
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