Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival Hardback - 2009
by Robert Sabbag
A bestsellingauthor tells theterrifying andinspiring story ofthe plane crash hesurvivedAround midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England flight248 crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot died but thecopilot and eight passengers survived with trauma both physicaland emotional. Robert Sabbag, at the height of his fame for hisbestselling book Snowblind, was among them.Down Around Midnight is Sabbag's gripping account of whatexactly happened on that foggy night and his candid attempt tocome to terms with the emotional ramifications of the crash. Hereconnects with the other survivors and their rescuers for the firsttime in thirty years, weaving the narrative between past and presentto create a thrilling and affecting story of survival and recovery.Like the best survivor tales-Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Airand Joe Simpson's Touching the Void-Down Around Midnight isfast paced and mesmerizing. It is also a meditation on healing andthe things we do to compartmentalize traumatic memories. Fewpeople experience a plane crash and live to tell the story. Sabbagbrings his striking, economical style to this personal tale of learninghow to remember and how to endure.
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- Title Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival
- Author Robert Sabbag
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 214
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, NY
- Publication date 2009-06-11
- ISBN 9780670021024 / 0670021024
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.52 x 5.88 x 0.81 in (21.64 x 14.94 x 2.06 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Survival after airplane accidents,, Authors, American
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008046688
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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