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The Floatplane Notesbooks

Clyde Edgerton

19883 pagesabout 5–10 minutes
1988
first published
  • 1988Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 265 pages · ENGISBN 9780945575009
  • 2004Ballantine Books · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780345419064
  • 1989Ballantine Books · ENGISBN 9780685295717
  • 2017University of South Carolina Press · 265 pages · ENGISBN 9781611178227
  • 1989Random House Audio · 3 pages · ENGISBN 9780394578866
  • 1989Ballantine Books · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780345359841
  • 2001Rebound by Sagebrush · ENGISBN 9780613126656
  • 1988Not Avail · ENGISBN 9785552466122
BittersweetCountrysideShort read

Edgerton chronicles 20 years in the lives of the Copelands of North Carolina, a family just on the fringes of white trash. Albert buys kits to build floatplanes which never work, and his floatplane logbook becomes a family album of sorts.

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