Editorial Reviews
Review
V.S. Pritchett
New Statesman
Mr. Gann is a writer saturated in his subject; he has the skill to make every instant sharp and important and we catch the fever to know that documentary writing does not often invite.
The New Yorker
This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of [the author's] nearly ten thousand hours aloft in peace and (as a member of the Air Transport Command) in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck -- that "the pattern of anyone fate is only partly contrived by the individual."
New York Times Book Review
Few writers have ever drawn their readers so intimately into the shielded sanctum of the cockpit, and it is here that Mr. Gann is truly the artist.
Cornelius Ryan
author of A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day
Fate Is the Hunter is partly autobiographical, partly a chronicle of some of the most memorable and courageous pilots the reader will ever encounter in print; and always this book is about the workings of fate....The book is studded with characters equally as memorable as the dramas they act out.
Saturday Review
This fascinating, well-told autobiography is a complete refutation of the comfortable cliché that "man is master of his fate." As far as pilots are concerned, fate (or death) is a hunter who is constantly in pursuit of them....There is nothing depressing about Fate Is the Hunter. There is tension and suspense in it but there is great humor too. Happily, Gann never gets too technical for the layman to understand.
Review
Saturday Review This fascinating, well-told autobiography is a complete refutation of the comfortable cliché that "man is master of his fate." As far as pilots are concerned, fate (or death) is a hunter who is constantly in pursuit of them....There is nothing depressing about Fate Is the Hunter. There is tension and suspense in it but there is great humor too. Happily, Gann never gets too technical for the layman to understand.
Fate is the Hunter
Fate is the Hunter,Ernest K. Gann,Simon & Schuster,0671636030,1910-,20th Century American Novel And Short Story,20th century,Air pilots,Biography,Biography & Autobiography,Biography / Autobiography,Biography/Autobiography,Gann, Ernest Kellogg,,General,Literary,Military,Military - World War II,Novelists, American,Personal narratives, American,United States,World War, 1939-1945,English,Gann, Ernest Kellogg,History / General,Modern fiction,USA
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