Flight : A Novel

by Glendinning, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780312314989
• ISBN10: 0312314981
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-11
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

Martagon is a daring and successful engineer by profes-sion and a loner by nature. He is in the midst of master-mind-ing the construction of a high-tech airport in France when he meets the enigmatic Marina de Cabrieres, whose family estate is the site of the immense project. But as he begins a flirta-tion with her, Martagon loses his way both profes-sionally and personally-a mistake that could cost him everything he has worked to achieve. Flight is an absorbing character study, a love story, and a stunning portrait of modern Europe with all its cultural fusions and blurring national identities.

Author Biography

Victoria Glendinning has written biographies of Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West, and Jonathan Swift, and won the Whitbread Award for her 1992 biography of Trollope. Her previous novels, The Grown-Ups and Electricity, received great critical acclaim. She divides her time between London, Provence, and Ireland.

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Praise for Victoria Glendinning's previous novel, Electricity:

"Superb ... an achievement of great intelligence, understanding, and beauty."
--Rebecca Radner, The San Francisco Chronicle

"A marvelously engrossing novel."
--Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World


". . . establishes the place and time with apparently effortless ease . . "
-- Kathryn Harrison, The New York Times Book Review

"Written with all the snap and crackle of a contemporary coming-of-age novel, Electricity brings to light the Victorian era as a time of scientific discovery, spiritualism, and shifting relations between the sexes."
-- Entertainment Weekly

"Electricity... shows off to advantage what Glendinning does best .... Charlotte is a heroine in the real sense: a woman of exalted spirit or achievements, above the ordinary."
-- Vogue