{"product_id":"luminous-airplanes-paperback","title":"Luminous Airplanes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul La Farge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decade after the publication of \u003ci\u003eHaussmann, or the Distinction, \u003c\/i\u003ehis acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in \u003ci\u003eLuminous Airplanes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLa Farge's \u003ci\u003eLuminous Airplanes\u003c\/i\u003e is an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul La Farge\u003c\/b\u003e (1970 - 2023) was the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Artist of the Missing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHaussmann, or the Distinction, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLuminous Airplanes, The Night Ocean, \u003c\/i\u003e and a book of imaginary dreams, \u003ci\u003eThe Facts of Winter.\u003c\/i\u003e His novels and stories \"defied easy categorization\", according to the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. His fiction and nonfiction appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHarper's, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's, Conjunctions, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Believer, Bookforum, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. He lived in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761046487328,"sku":"9781250013828","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cb542d7de5eb13574bec6a1c8b583356.webp?v=1780198122","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/luminous-airplanes-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}