The Floatplane Notebooks

Edgerton, Clyde

ISBN 10: 0945575009 / ISBN 13: 9780945575009

Published by Algonquin Books, 1988

About this Item

Signed by Clyde Edgerton, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket glossy, moderately worn. Binding square & firm.

Seller Inventory # 116360

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Floatplane Notebooks
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945575009
• ISBN 13: 9780945575009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Southern States Southeast America
  • Literature Literary Culture Writers Authors

About this title

Synopsis

The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. Meredith Copeland's father, Albert, keeps a sort of written family record in some notebooks he bought to log the flights of his home-built floatplane, a project Albert first undertook in 1956, when his children were just kids. Now that the kids are grown -- Thatcher has a son of his own, Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam, and Noralee is off dating hippies -- the notebooks are thick with the floatplane's failures to lift off and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, Thatcher and Bliss's wedding, records of Noralee's height and weight, a diagram of the graveyard, a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith's many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then down to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same.

About the Author

Clyde Edgerton is the author of eight novels, five of which have been New York Times Notables. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and performs with his band, Rank Strangers. Author Web site—www.clydeedgerton.com.