The Aerodrome (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Warner, Rex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099511568 ISBN 13: 9780099511564

Publisher: Random House UK, 2008

Synopsis

A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent, and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal. Soon he is led to leave his family, his friends and his love in order to join the aerodrome and confront the secrets of this mysterious and sinister place. Michael Moorcock, author of the Elric novels, contributes an introduction.

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6 1.5-hour cassettes

From the Back Cover:

First published in 1941, The Aerodrome is one of the few works of fiction in the twentieth century to understand the dangerous yet glamorous appeal of fascism and the less than satisfactory answer of traditional democracy - and to transmute their deadly opposition into terms of enduring art. Rex Warner brilliantly invents, on one side, a thoroughly degenerate Village representing fallen man, and on the other side a great Aerodrome dedicated to ruthless efficiency. The ideological struggle between the idealistic Air Vice-Marshal and the hero-narrator from the Village is portrayed with poetry, narrative speed, and great simplicity of language. It is a great symbolic novel of our time, as pertinent today as when it was written.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0099511568
• ISBN 13: 9780099511564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304