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Edwards Park flew Nanette over <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1
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lace></st1:country-region> during the war. He was not a particularly distinguished fighter pilot. But he's a terrific writer. (He was an accomplished professional journalist and a writer for the Smithsonian.) For us, he wrote two wonderful books about his wartime experience.
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The first,
Nanette (1977), is a poetic love story about his relationship with his own bird—and his own youth. The second,
Angeles Twenty (1997), is more of a standard narrative that reflects on the real character of the wartime experience. Each tells the same story from different artistic sensibilities. And each is wonderful in its own way.
thinking that another would come along. It was some time later that I discovered how expensive they are. It did have remnants of a dust jacket, but scribbled on and the pages were loose and falling out.
