Wonder Book of the Air, The - Hardcover
Harrison Durrance is bursting with ambitious plans. It may be the Depression and he may be poor white trash, but he is shining shoes at the railway station in Alapaha, Georgia to earn himself the fees to attend West Point. This story covers three generations and six decades of American history.
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In electrifying prose and with a rare generosity of feeling, this dramatic and piercing debut novel tells the story of the fractured lives of three generations of one Southern family. "Magnificent . . . brims with characters who seem truer than life."--Kaye Gibbons.
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0747528217
- ISBN 13 9780747528210
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages305
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