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A band of misfits boards an airship to search for utopia, in this novel by the author of The Balloonist, a National Book Award finalist: âA delightâ (Philip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass).  An unemployed American metaphysician, a perpetually ill English nurse, a guilt-ridden German captainâthey and a handful of others are about to board an airship called The League of Nations. Under the seductive spell of Moira, a mix of mystic, cult leader, and prophet, these haunted men and broken women will go in search of a mysterious polar promised landâbut the journey may not take them where they expect it to . . .  Set in the years after the First World War, this is a uniquely imaginative novel from an author praised by the Chicago Tribune as âa gifted craftsman, a meticulous writer whose powers as a storyteller are as compelling as the sexual tensions he imagines.â  âHis sympathy for such a range of characters in their crazinesses, their various kinds of loneliness, their sheer comedy is wonderful. I think itâs one of his very best.â âPhilip Pullman, author of The Amber Spyglass  âAs stirring and beautiful as one of the airships that MacDonald Harris so obviously delighted in . . . Witty, sexy, surprising, and so generous to his cast of crackpots and con-artists and heartsore seekers.â âOwen King, author of Double Feature  â[The author] weaves a magical web of words in his narrative of mysticism, séances and a dirigible named The League of Nations . . . The action is inspired and written in undeniably gorgeous prose.â âKirkus Reviews (starred review) |
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