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Jim Harrison is a test pilot in the United States Air Force, one of the exalted few. He spends his days cheating death in the skies above the Mojave Desert and his nights at his friend Pancho's bar, often with his wife, Grace. She and Harrison are secretly desperate for a child--and when, against all odds, Grace learns that she is pregnant, the two are overcome with joy.While America becomes swept up in the fervor of the space race, Harrison turns his attention home, passing up the chance to become an astronaut to welcome his daughter, Florence, into the world. Together, he and Grace confront the thrills and challenges of raising a child head-on. Fatherhood is different than flying planes--less controlled, more anxious--however the pleasures of watching Florence grow are incomparable. But when his family is faced with a sudden and inexplicable tragedy, Harrison's instincts as a father and a pilot are put to the test. As a pilot, he feels compelled to lead them through it--and as a father, he fears that he has fallen short.The aftermath will haunt the Harrisons and strain their marriage as Jim struggles under the weight of his decisions. Beginning when the dust of the Second World War has only just begun to settle and rushing onward into the 1960s, Benjamin Johncock traces the path of this young couple as they are uprooted by events much larger than themselves. The turns the Harrisons take together are at once astonishing and recognizable, their journey both frightening and full of hope. Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in American history, The Last Pilot is a mesmerizing story of loss and finding courage in the face of it from an extraordinary new talent.…
N° de réf. du vendeur 00097363642
- Titre
- The Last Pilot
- Auteur
- Benjamin Johncock
- Éditeur
- Picador USA
- Année de publication
- 2016
- État de l'article
- Good
- Reliure
- Paperback
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 1250095786
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9781250095787
Revue de presse
"Reading Johncock one is reminded of Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy and especially of James Salter's The Hunters... a first-rate novel by a major new talent." - The Spectator
"A big, muscular novel... tenderly undercut by the quite different theme of a marriage and a family under unbearable stress... convincing and moving." - Guardian
"A taut domestic drama whose stringent prose evokes the emotional and physical landscape of a time and a place, this is a remarkably accomplished debut." - Mail on Sunday
"His descriptive writing has a clean grace that recalls Cormac McCarthy... Johncock's story and characters take flight: this is a very promising debut." - New Statesman
"In this riveting and beautifully written novel... Johncock brings fresh perspective and new energy to this old story ground." - Daily Mail
"A remarkable achievement... lit by the fire of 1960s adventure, and also by the blazing beauty of a new literary star." - Boston Globe
"[In] this spare gem of a novel... Johncock is superb at crafting suspenseful scenes. A dramatic tale." - BBC Culture
"Tightly told with searing uncomplicated prose, The Last Pilot is as engaging for its emotional gravitas as it is for its enthralling story of the race to space I couldn t put it down." - Amazon: Best Books of the Month
"The dialogue is clean and smooth and Johncock's spare prose gallops along at a fair pace." - Herald
"Marvellous... Johncock seamlessly blends history and fiction, science and intimacy." - Sunday Express
"One of the most authentic pieces of fiction set in America in years... a distinct and unique new voice in fiction." - Huffington Post
"Johncock's characters are his real accomplishment. The author offers such emotional insight." - Big Issue
"Providing a much-needed fix for those suffering from Mad Men withdrawal." - The National
"An ideal read for history buffs and space race enthusiasts." - Kirkus
"Ingeniously plotted, deftly written and engrossing." - People Magazine
"A touching and fascinating tale of a man forced to choose between family and his place in the history books." - We Love This Book: Book of the Week
"An impressive debut... a marvellous, emotionally powerful novel." - Publishers Weekly
"A confident, engrossing debut novel with great warmth and a real sense of time and place. Great stuff." - A.L. Kennedy
"By far the best debut novel I've read in years. To me, it reads like the reclusive disciple of Cormac McCarthy and Saint-Exupéry." - Joanne Harris
"A hugely impressive piece of work. I loved it." - Ian Rankin: Book of the Year 2015
"Benjamin Johncock is a writer of great craft and integrity. His dialogue is desert-dry, and his sentences crackle with the energy of things unsaid." --Jon McGregor
"The writing is machine-cut and spare... like the pilots at this story's centre, Johncock has dared to reach for the stars." - DW Wilson
"Told in language as beautifully spare and unsparing as a desert or a moonscape, The Last Pilot reminds us in powerful ways that the real unknown frontier still lies within the mysteries of the human heart." - Kim Edwards
"Johncock's impressive debut takes us back to the era of test pilots and the dawn of the space age. Jim Harrison is a man pushing technology to the limits at the same time as dealing with immense personal tragedy. This clever fusion of fact and fiction, combined with a sparse writing style, is a Great American Novel - written by a Brit." --Times Higher Education
"It made me cry. I loved it." - Helen Macdonald
"The Last Pilot nods to some august literary forebears Tom Wolfe, Raymond Carver, James Salter and yet moves to an internal beat of its own. Covering an era of American aviation from breaking the sound barrier to the space race of the 1960s, its dry, laconic prose is as acute in unpicking the mysteries of marriage and bereavement as it is in conveying the vertiginous limits of ambition and daring." - Anthony Quinn
"Exhilarating." - Jonathan Lee
"With its Lucky Strike-smoking hero, pithy prose and terse, no-frills dialogue, this classic tale of love and loss is steeped in the American tradition... Although the idea of the personal and professional in conflict is a familiar one, this big-hearted, atmospheric narrative is charged with the tension of the times and carried along by its compassionately imagined characters." - The Lady
"A soaring, exhilarating, emotional read, a mesmerising family story... that plumbs the depths of grief and mental illness." - Eastern Daily Press
"You may cry, but this story is worth every tear." - Metro
"A heart-wrenching tale of loss and discovery." - Paste Magazine, Best New Books of the Month
"A stellar debut... one of those terrific reads that deliver a compelling story against an interesting historical backdrop." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Johncock has the Carveresque ability to pack feeling into and between and beneath a few words of dialogue; and the Salterish knack of constructing the tightest of sentences. There are moments of desert heat which recall Cormac McCarthy; dust bowl fences and silence Steinbeck.... Johncock s novel of marriage and family and endeavour is a truly impressive achievement... one of the best debuts I ve read in a long time." - Words of Mercury
"Far and away the best debut novel of the year. It left me an emotional wreck. The spare style is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, Hemingway, and especially Updike. One of the most confident, assured debut novels I have ever read. Emotionally gripping, and absolutely compelling, I cannot recommend this highly enough." --Bookmunch
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