God of Speed

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It's a summer night in 1973, and holed up in his hotel penthouse in London, Howard Hughes can't sleep. Tomorrow he takes control of an airplane for the first time in more than fifteen years. As the reclusive, drug-addled billionaire waits for the dawn, the shape and preoccupations of the times emerge from his ruined psyche; a world of oil, flight, money, movies, drugs, sex, power, greed, fear, yearning - America. Blackly funny, muscular and rhythmic, transcendent and debauched, God of Speed is a fever dream, a giant and extraordinary leap of the imagination into the fractured mind of a man who was both great, and greatly fallen.

Author Bio

Luke Davies is the author of two novels, Isabelle the Navigator and the cult bestseller Candy. He has published five books of poetry, including Running with Light, which was the winner of the Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2000, and Totem, which was the 2004 Age Book of the Year winner.