Rinker Buck's beautiful memoir of fathers, sons, and adventure in
the skies won abundant praise from critics and readers across the
country. Now available in trade paperback, Flight of Passage is set
to become the new favorite of the audience of millions who loved A
River Runs Through It and My Old Man and the Sea.
In the summer of 1966, 15-year-old Rinker and 17-year-old Kern
Buck bought a battered Piper Cub for $300 and set out for
California. But the real story, Buck later realized, lay elsewhere:
"The odyssey", he knew, "was us". Rinker and Kern's father taught
his sons to rebuild planes and fly them by the old
seat-of-the-pants technique. With their father no longer able to
fly, the brothers took to the skies -- alone.
Flight of Passage has been praised as "a riveting adventure
tale, loopy travelogue, and powerful family memoir in one
ingeniously crafted package" (Harry Stein, One of the Guys) and an
"enchanting story of youthful accomplishment" (Kirkus). Buck weaves
a powerful story with verve, insight, grace, and compassion.
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