Flying

Critics have compared him to Proust, Pynchon, and Fred Astaire--an artful, inventive observer of Americana. Now Eric Kraft has landed an ambitious comedy set both in the present and in an alternate 1950's universe--Flying. It is the story of a young dreamer named Peter Leroy who builds a flying motorcycle and innocently fools his entire home town into believing that he has piloted it across the country--and how, fifty years later, he sets the record straight. Flying is composed of a trilogy of novels, drawing together Kraft's previously published Taking Off and On the Wing, with the final part, Flying Home, which appears in print for the first time in this paperback original.

Flying is a brilliant, buoyant comedy of hoaxes, digressions, do-it-yourself engineering, and the wilds of memory.


Genre: Literary Fiction