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Waypoints

Waypoints

Ouston, Adam

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1922571245
ISBN13: 9781922571243
Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann
Published: Jan 19 2022
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

In 1910 the famed escapologist Harry Houdini made an ill-fated attempt to become the first person to fly an aircraft over Australian soil - yet while Houdini is remembered to day for his failure, the true record-holder has been forgotten. This quirk of history becomes the focus for the obsessions of Bernard Cripp, world-weary scion of an ailing family circus, who tries to unearth every detail of Houdini's flight in order to re-enact it. But why is Bernard so single-minded? As his manic testimony unspools, his story takes on a darker tone: he is, in fact, in mourning for a wife and child he has lost to the skies, and paralysed by the uncertainty surrounding their deaths. If his efforts to re-create history cannot bring back his loved ones, can they at least bring him peace as he struggles to live with his loss?

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