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02363aam a2200313Ii 4500 001 A273410EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 230123s2022 njua 000 1 eng d 010 $a 2022941821 020 $a 1952386411 020 $a 9781952386411 035 $a (OCoLC)1363845941 040 $a IG$ $b eng $e rda $c IG$ $d JVK $d SILO 043 $a n-us-il 100 1 $a Raffel, Dawn, $e author. 245 10 $a Boundless as the sky : $b fables & tales, some of them true / $c Dawn Raffel. 264 1 $a Montclair, New Jersey : $b Sagging Meniscus Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 133 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "Dawn Raffel's Boundless as the Sky is a book of the invisible histories that repose beneath the cities we inhabit, and the worlds we try to build out of words. The first of its two parts, stories of real and invented cities, some ancient, some dystopian, is a response to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. The second part comes together into one narrative, taking place in a single city-Chicago-on a single day in 1933. It is based closely on a true event, the arrival of a "roaring armada of goodwill" in the form of twenty-four seaplanes flown in a display of fascist power by Mussolini's wingman Italo Balbo to Chicago's "Century of Progress" World's Fair. The 7000-mile flight from Rome to Chicago was lauded by both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Hitler, at a time when aviation made banner headlines across the US, and news of the Nazis was often in a side column. The novella follows a few of the many thousands of Chicagoans there to witness the planes' arrival. These two panels of Raffel's poetic diptych call out to each other with a mysterious and disquieting harmony, and from history and fantasy to the dangers and dark realities of the current moment with startling insight and urgency."-- $c Back cover. 505 2 $a Part one: The city toward which my journey tends -- Part two: Boundless as the sky. 611 20 $a Century of Progress International Exposition $d (1933-1934 : $c Chicago, Ill.) $v Fiction. 600 10 $a Balbo, Italo, $d 1896-1940 $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fascism $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405012644.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A273410EB8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search