Take-Off - Softcover

Daniele Del Giudice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860462030 ISBN 13: 9781860462030

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1996

Synopsis

Interweaving observation and dream, Take-Off is a meditation on flying. Its eight chapters carry the reader up to the clouds, into a world governed by different laws, where as we look through the cockpit window - and into our own souls - we see the earth below, and into our own lives, from a new angle and with a painful new clarity. Whether he is reliving his first solo flight, the mysterious disappearance of an airliner, or the adrenaline-charged lives of Italian torpedo bombers in World War II, del Giudice focuses on the edge of experience where one learns to take nothing for granted.

About this title

About the Author

DANIELE DEL GIUDICE was born in Rome in 1949. He is author of two previous novels and a novella. Being a qualified pilot with many a story to tell, he was encouraged to write the present book by Federico Fellini. JOSEPH FARRELL, journalist, reviewer and broadcaster, teaches Italian at Strathclyde University. Italian novelists whose work he has translated include Leonardo Sciascia and Vincenzo Consolo; he has also translated plays by Goldoni, De Filippo and Dario Fo.

Review

"Among the technical exchanges with the control tower and references to cockpit instruments mysterious to the layman, or the description of the ever-changing cloud barrier, his assured, luminous writing is that of a man who has his destiny in his own hands and knows where to make his touch-down." * Cesare Segre, Corriere della Sera * "Writing with such precision of what there is on board an aircraft and how we perceive it, he has aimed to reduce life to a minimum, the better to explore our way of understanding it." * Epoca *

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1860462030
• ISBN 13: 9781860462030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122