The Longest Winter
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Semi finalist in the Best Kindle Book Award, 2014.
In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying. In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.
The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man’s life. His story is one of despair and courage, tragedy and triumph—stranded on an uncharted rocky island, his body broken by the crash, John is adopted into a tribe of Aleuts, until the evacuation of the Aleutian Islands in May 1943.
This is John’s story.
‘A raw and unsentimental collage, the novel finally emerges as a moving testament to survival and adaptation.’
Rob Spillman, New York Times Book Review
‘I’d give five years of my life to write a book like that.’
Bryce Courtenay, author of The Power of One.
In 1911, a young John Shaw from South Carolina had his first taste of flying. In 1926, two years after the plane crash death of his best friend, he attempted a solo flight record in a refitted 1923 Curtiss Jenny. Then, with half the journey completed, his plane was caught in a storm, went down, and for seventeen years he was listed as missing, presumed dead.
The Longest Winter is a work of fiction, the tale of one man’s life. His story is one of despair and courage, tragedy and triumph—stranded on an uncharted rocky island, his body broken by the crash, John is adopted into a tribe of Aleuts, until the evacuation of the Aleutian Islands in May 1943.
This is John’s story.
‘A raw and unsentimental collage, the novel finally emerges as a moving testament to survival and adaptation.’
Rob Spillman, New York Times Book Review
‘I’d give five years of my life to write a book like that.’
Bryce Courtenay, author of The Power of One.
