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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100399149732

ISBN-139780399149733

eBay Product ID (ePID)2252557

Product Key Features

Book TitlePilots

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicWar & Military, Thrillers / General, General, Biographical

GenreFiction

AuthorJames Spencer

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight18.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-073449

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsThis is a one of a kind book...that anyone interested in war in the air will read with fascination. (Thomas Fleming, co-author of The Secrets of Inchon), This is a one of a kind book...that anyone interested in war in the air will read with fascination. (Thomas Fleming, co-author of The Secrets of Inchon )

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisApart from sex, flying was the most exciting thing I'd run across in my twenty years on this planet. James Spencer flew B-24 bombers over New Guinea, Borneo, and the Philippines during 1944 and 1945, and it was only decades later that he began to write about it, combining the literal truth as he remembered it with imagination based on all that he'd seen and heard. The extraordinary result is The Pilots, a novel-in-stories about a group of young men, their comrades, and girlfriends, as they evolve in often unpredictable ways during the last years of the war: Blake Hurlingame and Steve Larkin, boyhood friends who take different paths into fighters and bombers; Doc, the flight surgeon, battling combat fatigue; Courtenay, the captain whose arrogant bluster masks hidden demons; and Addie, the woman who will leave her mark on them all. These are stories alive with the senses, filled with the smell of hot oil and burnt rubber; the sight of green jungle and backlit clouds like vast sculptured monuments; the feeling of a plane warming up, trembling like a bird eager to be in flight. Several excerpts have already appeared in magazines; now the work itself makes a wholly remarkable debut.

LC Classification NumberPS3619.P6445P55 2003