Taking Off

✍ Scribed by Kraft, Eric

• Book ID: 108548600
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: Peter Leroy Flying 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781466886728

✦ Synopsis

One day, middle-aged Manhattanite Peter Leroy receives an unsettling postcard from a childhood classmate. With his wife, Albertine, he returns to his hometown of Babbington, Long Island, and finds it both transformed and strangely the same.

For Babbington has been "redefined" as a theme park, in a scheme to draw tourists to the struggling community, complete with trained actors, cultural interpreters, and carefully designed simulations of small-town 1950s life. On the wall of Legends restaurant, Peter sees his own commemoration: a picture of the triumphant day when, as a fifteen-year-old boy, he landed on Babbington's Main Street in the aerocycle he had built in his parents' garage, having flown four thousand miles to New Mexico and back.

Hailed in newspapers as the "Birdboy of Babbington," the youthful inventor reveled in his fame—-but never disclosed the truth behind his flight. Now Peter wants to set the record straight—-and with Albertine as...