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A Memoir of Crash and Survival
Penguin Press
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
224 pages
ISBN: 0143117602
EAN: 9780143117605
Kindle: B0026NBZF8
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Around midnight on June 17th, 1979, Air New England flight
248 crashed into the woods near Yarmouth on Cape Cod. En
route to Hyannis, the plane came down just two and a half
miles off course, but it wasn't until one of the crash's
survivors made her way to the airport that the airline
employees and passengers' loved ones alike found out
happened to the plane. The pilot was dead, and the other
eight survivors, meanwhile, waited as rescue teams navigated
the Cape's notorious summer fog to find the crash site.
Sabbag survived a broken back and never saw any of the
others again. Thirty years later, he returns to try to
come to terms with what happened to them all, during and
after the crash.
A master storyteller, with a
striking economical style, Bob Sabbag effortlessly weaves
between then and now, and conveys to the reader just how
fresh his scars sometimes feel. Memory and survival emerge
as the story's main characters, and we watch Bob's struggle
to piece together the night as he remembers it, and the
night as experienced by all of the others involved.
Interviews with the other survivors, rescuers and families
building and emotional and gripping synthesis of their
memories into Bob's own narrative. While the book makes
clear that no one from that night emerged unchanged, the
tone is inspirational, and thrives on time's inevitable
forward motion. Readers are swept up by the harrowing
experience of the crash, and hypnotized by Bob's graceful
exploration into his processing of what really happened.
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