Takeoff
Subtitle: the pilot's lore
By: Daniele del Giudice ; translated from the Italian by Joseph Farrell.
Contributors: Farrell, Joseph.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Flight -- Fiction.; Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Description: Interweaving observation and dream, Takeoff is a meditation on flying. Its eight chapters carry the reader up to the clouds, into a world governed by different laws, where as we look through the cockpit window - and into our own souls - we see the earth below, and into our own lives, from a new angle and with a painful new clarity.

Whether he is reliving his first solo flight, the mysterious disappearance of an airliner, or the adrenaline-charged lives of Italian torpedo bombers in World War II, del Giudice focuses on the edge of experience where one learns to take nothing for granted.