Luminous Airplanes |
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| Author:
| La Farge, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4104-4623-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | Thorndike Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $30.99 |
Book Description:
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La Farge's singular novel is accompanied by an online "immersive text" which continues and complements the story In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert to learn that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes and clean out the house where his family lived for five generations. While there he begins a romance rooted in the past, remembers San Francisco in the boom years, and mourns the loss of Swan, a madman who may have been the...
More DescriptionLa Farge's singular novel is accompanied by an online "immersive text" which continues and complements the story In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert to learn that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes and clean out the house where his family lived for five generations. While there he begins a romance rooted in the past, remembers San Francisco in the boom years, and mourns the loss of Swan, a madman who may have been the only person to understand what was happening to the city and to the world.