num_pages: 357
description: From the bestselling and award-winning author of Whistling Past the Graveyard comes an adventure tale about two daredevils and a farm boy who embark on the journey of a lifetime across Americas heartland in the Roaring Twenties.Set in the rapidly changing world of 1920s America this is a story of three people from very different backgrounds: Henry Schuler Jefferson son of German immigrants from Midwestern farm country; Cora Rose Haviland a young woman of privilege whose family has lost their fortune; and Charles Gil Gilchrist an emotionally damaged WWI veteran pilot. Set adrift by life-altering circumstances they find themselves bound together by need and torn apart by blind obsessions and conflicting goals. Each one holds a secret that if exposed would destroy their friendship. But their journey of adventure and self-discovery has a priceand one of them wont be able to survive it.As they crisscross the heartland exploring the rapidly expanding role of aviation from barnstorming to bootlegging from a flying circus to the dangerous sport of air racing the three companions form a makeshift family. Its a one-of-a-kind family with members as adventurous as they are vulnerable and as fascinating as they are flawed. But whatever adventureworldly or privatethey find themselves on theyre guaranteed to be a family you wont forget.
language: English
title: The Flying Circus
publisher: Gallery Books