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The last pilot has the literary weight of a great american novel, with a limitless desert setting plus the prospect of soon dominating space, and the spare yet profound writing style of ernest hemingway or cormac mccarthy. Set against the backdrop of one of the most emotionally charged periods in american history, the last pilot begins in the bonedry mojave desert during the late 1940s, where us air force test pilots are racing to break the sound barrier. Much of the last pilot takes place in the desert, and benjamin johncock provides readers with wonderful, atmospheric descriptions of the landscape. Why do you think he dedicates so much space to describing the land. He is the recipient of an arts council england grant and the american literary merit award, and is a winner of comma presss national short story day competition. Benjamin talks about his fascination with space exploration and why he still writes by hand in pencil. By the 1960s, the space race is underway, and harrison and his colleagues are offered a place in history as the worlds first astronauts.
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