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Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey Across Russia (Traveler)
Fall Out of Heaven An Autobiographical Journey Across Russia - Traveler Author:Alan Cheuse In 1986 acclaimed novelist Alan Cheuse and his photograher son set off on a pilgrimage to Russia, where Phili Kaplan Cheuse, the author's fater, had spent his youth as a rowdy, romantic adventurer in the Red Army Air Force. Using excerps from his father's journal, Cheuse transports the reader to ... more »central Asia in the early 1930s, a time when his father wass flying dangerous missions in unpublicized Soviet wars against rebellious Muslim tribes. Intertwined is a journey to the America of the 1940s and 50s, where the New Jersey-born novelist fought his own wars with his fallen-hero immigrant father.
Fall Out of Heaven is a raw and stringent story, a mosaic of love and art, of destiny and dreaming in a world of war and prejudice and wild chance. Most of all, it is a book of atonement between estranged children and their ever-present past.« less