Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third novel, the story of the Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina - in 1956, the father Alfred began building a floatplane and in the notebook where he recorded his unsuccessful attempts to fly the plane, he also kept track of the family's history. In 1971 as the novel ends, his now grown sons, Meredith and Mark, are back from Vietnam, Meredith severely wounded but still with the tough Copeland sinew in him, and Alfred is still trying to fly the floatplane. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. ISBN: 0-945575-009.