James Spencer (1)
Autore di The Pilots
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James Spencer was eighteen when he joined the Air Force in 1943; he would earn the Distinguished Flying Cross and three Air Medals, among other honors. Spencer's stories, poems, and plays have appeared in more than forty other magazines and collections, including The Gettysburg Review, Virginia mostra altro Quarterly Review, American Literary Review, San Jose Studies, The Transatlantic Review, Texas Quarterly, San Francisco Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal. His plays have been performed by companies across the country. At various times a psychiatric aide at a VA hospital (where he met Ken Kesey, with whom he attended the first Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), a teacher at Stanford and San Francisco State universities, and an editor at the Stanford Research Institute, Spencer is now a licensed psychotherapist who maintains a part-time practice in addition to his writing schedule. He lives in Menlo Park, California mostra meno
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During World War II, James Spencer was a cocky, risk-addicted young pilot who lived with death every day-but considered it a privilege to fly the B-24s that helped win the war in the Pacific. The extraordinary result is The Pilots, a novel-in-stories about young flyers locked in almost-daily aerial combat, living their off-hours as if they were their last-and the women who endure the pain of attachment to men whose life expectancies may be measured in weeks and days.
Alive with the horrors of war and the sheer exhilaration of those who live, breathe and dream of flying, The Pilots introduces us to bomber pilot Blake Hurlingame and his boyhood friend, fighter ace Steve Larkin, who is captured by a strange, savage tribe that may trade him to the Japanese-or use him as food; Doc, whose concern for his men is unhinging his sanity; Courtney, the arrogant, reckless captain with inner demons behind his movie-star good looks; and heartbreaking Addie-who will leave her mark on them all..… (altro)