Luminous Airplanes - by Paul La Farge (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Luminous Airplanes" has a singular form: the novel, complete in itself, is accompanied by an online immersive text, which continues the story and complements it. Nearly 10 years in the making, La Farge's ambitious new work considers large worlds and small ones, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editors' Choice</b> <p/>In September 2000, a young computer programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, and clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he's there, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and begins an ill-advised romance in which past and present are dangerously confused. Paul la Farge's <i>Luminous Airplanes</i> is an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A perfect figure eight of a book...Luminous Airplanes is brilliant, poignant, startling, hilarious....I loved it." --<i>Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!</i> <p/>"Captivating...A wry, provocative, and often hilarious coming-of-age tale." --<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"A strange and salutary shock...Luminous Airplanes isn't about disconnection and meaninglessness. It is about connection and significance...the ramifying, mysterious ways we human beings affect each other, from parent to child, invention to invention, generation to generation." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"La Farge tells his tale of homecoming compassionately but without sentimentality....Rather than submitting to the darkness of the sleeping bag that is modern fiction, La Farge encourages his readers to search the sky for the signs that herald the return of loved ones we've lost." --<i>Time Out (New York)</i> <p/>"Beautiful...Calls to mind Haruki Murakami...A high-concept novel worth reading." --<i>The Economist</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Paul La Farge</b> is the author of the novels<i> The Artist of the Missing </i>(FSG, 1999) and <i>Haussmann, or the Distinction </i>(FSG, 2001); and a book of imaginary dreams, <i>The Facts of Win-ter. </i>His short stories have appeared in <i>McSweeney's, Harper's Magazine, Fence, Conjunctions, </i>and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in <i>The Believer, Bookforum, Playboy</i>, and <i>Cabinet</i>. He lives in upstate New York.
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