The Floatplane Notebooks

by Clyde Edgerton Narrated by Sally Darling, Clyde Edgerton, Norman Dietz

Overview

The Copeland family history is rich and ambiguous. Beginning with patriarch Walker and his wife Caroline, who once threatened a troop of Yankee soldiers with a pan of boiling water, the Copeland legacy continues with Walker's great grandson, Albert, who builds floatplanes that never fly. Albert's floatplane logbook becomes a family album, with each member of the family penning in his personal revelations, from Meredith, a maverick Vietnam veteran, to Noralee, who shocks everyone by dating a hippie.

Editorial Reviews

Cincinnati Post

A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph.... An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of [an] American classic.

|Los Angeles Times

... Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation.... Meredith Copeland's first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real.

Washington Post Book World

Clyde Edgerton is a miner of considerable skills, burrowing into the hillside of humanity to find the ore of characters so pure and so real they might just sit down beside us and tell us a tale.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940171142100
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/21/2011
Edition description:	Unabridged

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