William Faulkner 
Pylon 

Pylon concerns a newspaper reporter (the unnamed narrator) who is fascinated by the disorderly lives of an airplane racing team: a pilot, a parachute jumper, and an airplane mechanic. And there is a woman—Laverne, who is shared between the pilot and the parachute jumper. Laverne’s son, whose father may be the pilot or the jumper, bears the pilot’s name out of convenience.