Day

Informationen zum Autor A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day . She lives in Essex. Klappentext A magnificent novel about war by one of the finest living British writers. 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 ... Zusammenfassung Alfred Day wanted his war. he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. 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...

Product details

• Authors: A. L. Kennedy, Al Kennedy
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780099494058
• ISBN: 978-0-09-949405-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Costa whitbread 2007