Landing Gear
Sharp, engaging contemporary fiction from Governor General’s Award winner Kate Pullinger, author of The Mistress of Nothing
A man falls from the sky and against all odds lands himself a new life.
Spring 2010. Harriet works in local radio in London, England. When a volcano explodes in Iceland and airspace shuts down over Europe stranding most of her colleagues abroad, she seizes the opportunity to change her working life. At the same time, Yacub, a migrant worker from Pakistan, is stranded in a labour camp in Dubai, an Emily, a young TV researcher, loses her father to a sudden heart attack. Michael, stuck in New York, travels to Toronto to stay with an old flame. And Jack, a teenager liberated from normal life by the absence of airplanes, takes an unexpected risk and finds himself in trouble.
Two years later, Yacub, attempting to stow away, falls out of the landing gear of an airplane onto Harriet’s car in a London supermarket parking lot—and survives—while Emily accid...
Author: Pullinger Kate
ISBN: 9780385681216
Year of publication: 2014
Number of pages: 191
Reading time: 3 h. 11 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
