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ALSO BY PAUL LA FARGE

The Artist of the Missing

Haussmann, or the Distinction

The Facts of Winter

POSTSCRIPT

TEN YEARS LATER

You are standing at the entrance to a dark and gloomy cave:
www.luminousairplanes.com
.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Emily Barton, Amy Benfer, Wayne Chambliss, Rebecca Godfrey, Maureen Howard, Noah Millman, Ethan Nosowsky, Herb Wilson, and Jeff Zacks for reading some of the many non-flying versions of this book.

Thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Bard College, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ledig House/Art Omi, and the Château de Lavigny for supporting my experiments.

Thanks to the incomparable Gloria Loomis and Julia Masnik at Watkins/Loomis, and to Jesse Coleman at Farrar, Straus and Giroux for getting the book off the ground.

Finally, thanks—more than thanks—to Sarah Stern, who never stopped believing that
Luminous Airplanes
could fly.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

www.fsgbooks.com

eISBN 9781429949910

First eBook Edition : September 2011

First edition, 2011

A portion of this novel originally appeared in
Conjunctions:45
as the short story “Adventure.”

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data La Farge, Paul.

Luminous airplanes / Paul La Farge.—Ist ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-374-19431-4 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Young men—Fiction. 2. Family—Fiction. 3. Life change events—Fiction. 4. Millerite movement—United States—Fiction. 5. San Francisco (Calif.)—Fiction.

6. Turkey—Fiction. 7. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3562.A269L86 2011

813’.54—dc22

2011008428