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The Aerodrome
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Author
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Rex Warner. Michael Moorcock, intro.
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Publisher
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Vintage
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.7
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5.1
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0.75
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ISBN
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9780099511564
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Pages/Publication Date
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302/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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02134
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This item is not available.
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Description
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A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent, and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the powerful figure of the Air Vice-Marshal. Soon he is led to leave his family, his friends and his love in order to join the aerodrome and confront the secrets of this mysterious and sinister place. Rex Wagner's 1941 novel is an allegory on fascism. "Eight years older than 1984," as Anthony Burgess writes in his introduction, "its claim to be regarded as a modern classic is as sound as that of Orwell's novel."
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