Showing results for "Pilots" in World Literature

At the height of World War II, the British Air Transport Auxiliary need help. A group of young women volunteer for action, but the perils of their new job don’t end on the tarmac. Things are tough in the air, but on the ground their abilities as pilots are constantly questioned. There is friction from the start between the new recruits. Spirited American Lizzie turns heads with her audacity, but few can deny her flying skills. She couldn’t be more different from shy, petite Ruby, who is far from diminutive in the sky. It falls to pragmatic pilot May to bring the women together.

Fallon Malone is a loner, refusing to rely on anyone else for her happiness. She's content being her own boss, working in the skies of the remote Queensland outback. When she begins her contract in the Augathella region for the annual cattle muster, she's unimpressed with the new station manager. Jon Ingram is equally unhappy with this new female bush pilot, hired by Kent Mason, owner of neighbouring Lara Waters. It doesn't help that she seems to be a law unto herself. As the stockman and bush pilot come head-to-head, nature conspires to bring them together.

Um experiente piloto de helicóptero volta à sua cidade Natal—vítima de uma tragédia—levando a bordo uma comitiva de autoridades, em um voo carregado de tensão, rancores e mágoas; narrado com uma escrita inventiva de um dos mais premiados autores da nova geração. Ácido e por vezes sarcástico, O Piloto, certamente, não é uma história de amor, e mostra o poder e o alcance da boa Literatura.