Luminous Airplanes

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 245 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "This is one of the best works of fiction to come my way in a long time. Luminous Airplanes is a quiet triumph of a book." - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad Love Story A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a fes--tival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died, and that he has to return to Thebes, a town which is so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, in order to clean out the house where his family lived for five generations. While hes there, he runs into Yesim, a Turkish American woman whom he loved as a child, and begins a romance in which past and present are dangerously confused. At thesame time, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, 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. Luminous Airplanes has a singular form: the novel, complete in itself, is accompanied by an online "immersive text," which continues the story and complements it. Nearly ten years in the making, La Farges ambitious new work considers large worlds and small ones, love, mem--ory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.

ISBN: 9780374194314