| Every writer keeps a secret,
an episode from their past, hidden inside until maturity
and their advancing powers conspire to bring it out;
and that is certainly what happened with journalist
Rinker Buck's Flight of Passage. Part adventure tale,
part literary memoir, Flight of Passage is the
story of how two brothers resolved their differences
and proved themselves to their father through a mythical
odyssey across America.
In 1966, Rinker and Kernahan Buck, 15 and 17, bought
a dilapidated Piper Cub for $300, rebuilt it in their
barn, and then took off for California, making
headlines across the country as "the youngest aviators
ever to fly America coast-to-coast." Buck movingly
recreates the pre-Vietnam America of cheap strip motels
and dusty landing strips, the perilous crossing of the
Rockies and the Arizona deserts in a fragile plane without
a radio, narrating a classic tale of the Sixties. But
Flight of Passage is also a timeless ode to fathers
and sons, evoking the rites of coming of age in a family
driven both by demons and big dreams. This BDD Audiobook
is read by the author--a man whom critics are already
calling "a virtuoso storyteller in a very American
vein." --This text refers to an out of print or
unavailable edition of this title.
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