Category: Fiction

Copyright/published Year: 1988 by Algonquin Books

ISBN: 0945575009

Binding: hardcover

Description: The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long ì way. Meredith Copeland's father, Albert, keeps a sort of written ì family record in some notebooks he bought to log the flights of ì his home-built floatplane, a project Albert first undertook in ì 1956, when his children were just kids. Now that the kids are ì grown -- Thatcher has a son of his own, Meredith and Mark are ì back from Vietnam, and Noralee is off dating hippies -- the ì notebooks are thick with the floatplane's failures to lift off ì and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near ì the family plot, favorite family dogs, Thatcher and Bliss's ì wedding, records of Noralee's height and weight, a diagram of the ì graveyard, a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith's many ì backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one ì hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the ì wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding ì woods, and then down to the present again to show how even though ì times change, people are pretty much the same.

Condition Information

This is a used book and is in Good condition.

Additional condition description

1988 hardcover. Some shelving/use wear to jacket. Bottom of spine bumped. Clean and unmarked book.