Flying Hero Class

By Thomas Keneally

Book Overview

From the award-winning author of "To Asmara" comes a riveting and richly-textured tale of magic, terrorism, the loss of dreams, and the extraordinary powers of the human spirit. After terrorists hijack his plane, a dance troupe manager is transformed into a hero.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446393479
• ISBN13: 9780446393478
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

action packed

This is an action-packed novel, lighter than most of Keneally's works, with a flawed central character who makes a living as the manager of a tribe of Aboriginees who travel from city to city to put on performance art pieces. When their flight is hijacked during one such trip, undercurrents of prejudice, exploitation and social hierarchy in anarchical situations come to the fore. I read this straight through on a flight last year and was, for a time, transported- just what a well-written novel should do! Though written some years ago, this novel remains fresh today- fresher than ever given recent hijackings, and evidence that some things have not changed - we have just chosen to look the other way. Gripping.