Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Pair of WingsCondition: NewISBN-10: 1250347211EAN: 9781250347213ISBN: 9781250347213Publisher: Henry Holt & Company IncFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/20/2024Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 241mmItem Length: 163mmItem Weight: 608gAuthor: Carole HopsonGenre: Travel & TransportTopic: Fiction, Historical FictionDescription: An airline captain crafts a riveting, adventurous novel inspired by the remarkable true life of pioneer aviatrix Bessie Coleman, a Black woman who learned to fly at the dawn of aviation and found freedom in the airA few years after the Wright brothers' first flight, Bessie was working the Texas cotton ?elds with her family when an airplane flew over their heads. It buzzed so low she thought she could catch it in her hands. Bessie was fearless. She knew there was freedom in those wings.The daughter of a woman born into slavery, Bessie answers the call of the Great Migration. She moves to Chicago, where she wins the backing of two wealthy, powerful Black men-Robert Abbott, creator and publisher of the Chicago Defender, and Jesse Binga, the founder of Chicago's first Black bank. Abbott becomes her mentor, while Binga becomes her lover. Her true first love, though, remains flying.But in 1920, no one in the United States will train a Black woman to fly. So, twenty-eight-year-old Bessie learns to speak French and sets off for Europe. Two years ahead of Amelia Earhart, Bessie earns her pilot's license, and later she learns death-defying stunts from French and German dogfighting combat pilots.While she finds no prejudice in the air, Bessie wrestles with other challenges on the ground. A plane crash nearly kills her, her brothers seem to be crumbling under the weight of Jim Crow, and, while grappling with tough truths about Binga, Bessie begins to wonder if the freedom she finds in the sky means she must otherwise fly solo.With tenderness and mastery, Carole Hopson imagines the breathtaking moxie Bessie Coleman harnessed in order to lift herself out of poverty and become known as "Queen Bess."Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: A Pair of Wings
Title: A Pair of Wings
ISBN-10: 1250347211
EAN: 9781250347213
ISBN: 9781250347213
Release Date: 08/20/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Pair of Wings : a Novel
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
Topic: African American / Historical, Biographical
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2024
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 22.9 Oz
Author: Carole Hopson
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
