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A. L. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780099494058
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
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Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone - the war took it away.
Alfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the war took it away. Maybe it took him, too. Now in 1949, employed as an extra in a war film that echoes his real experience, Day begins to recall what he would rather forget...
| ISBN | 0099494051 | | Weight (grammes) | 196 | | ISBN13 | 9780099494058
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Vintage | | Height (mm) | 200 | | Imprint | Vintage | | Width (mm) | 131 | | Format | Paperback | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | Publication date | 07 Feb 2008 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 288 | |
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"An imaginative tour de force that succeeds on every level, from its sparkling language to its narrative ingenuity to its devastating portrayal of wartime Europe." --"San Diego Union-Tribune" "Kennedy faultlessly captures the brusque camaraderie of the bomber crew, men from vastly different backgrounds knitted together by a love so profound it can never be put in words." --"The Washington Post" "[Kennedy] follows the examples of several of her contemporaries, including William Boyd and Sebastian Faulks, in writing about World War II, and in doing so makes that fertile territory very much her own. . . . Brilliant." --"The Boston Globe" "Remarkable. . . . Day" "is a novel of extraordinary complexity." --"The New York Review of Books"  Be the first to write a customer review
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