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Constellation
On 27 October 1949 a Lockheed Constellation passenger plane left Paris for New York Hours later it disappeared on approach to its scheduled stopover in the Azores It was found on a mountainside five miles from its intended landing zone There were no survivors Among those lost in the accident were heavyweight boxer Marcel Cerdan flying to New York for a world title fight; 30-year-old virtuoso violinist Ginette Neveu; Kay Kamen Walt Disney's merchandising tsar; five Basque shepherds emigrating to America; a pilot who ran missions for the Free French during the war Constellation tells the untold true stories of the forty-eight men and women who died on board and paints a moving portrait of their place in the changing post-war world and of their hopes and dreams for the life awaiting them
across the Atlantic Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy
across the Atlantic Adrien Bosc's magnetic debut novel is a memorial to an air disaster that happened half a century ago But it is also a love song to the forgotten lives that every tragedy scatters around it like so much debris and a poignant investigation into the nature of collective tragedy
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